How much does DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 4C cost?

$124 a month excl. VAT, which is $15.50 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.

What do you get with DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 4C?

4 dedicated vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 250 GB SSD of disk and 5 TB of traffic a month.

Where does DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 4C run?

In 10 locations: New York City, US, San Francisco, US, Amsterdam, NL, Singapore, SG, London, GB, Frankfurt, DE, Toronto, CA, Bangalore, IN, and more.

How does DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 4C compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 25% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 195% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 4/100 on hardware per dollar, #360 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 4C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 4C costs $124 a month for 4 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 250 GB SSD, cheaper than 25% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

CPU-Optimizeddedicated vCPU

Price

DigitalOcean

$124/mo

$15.50 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 25% of the 527 plans we track.

View at DigitalOcean

Value

4/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #360 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

CPU-Optimizeddedicated vCPU

What you get

RAM: 8 GBmore than 31% of plans
vCPU: 4 dedicatedmore than 40% of plans
Disk: 250 GB SSDmore than 75% of plans
Traffic: 5 TB a month

10 locations

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How it scores

Value 4/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.19 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 8 GB: 8.0
vCPU, 4: 6.0
Disk, 250 GB SSD: 8.0
Traffic, 5 TB: 1.5
23.5 points for $124: 0.19 a dollar

1 point per GB of RAM, 1.5 per vCPU, 1 per 25 GB of disk up to 500 GB (SSD × 0.8, HDD × 0.4), and 0.3 per TB of traffic up to 20 TB.

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 8 GB with room to spare, on its 4 dedicated vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B, about 3.1–6.2 tok/s Gemma 3 4B, about 5.5–11 tok/s Qwen3 4B, about 5.9–12 tok/s Phi-4-mini 3.8B, about 6.2–12 tok/s Llama 3.2 3B, about 7.4–15 tok/s Llama 3.2 1B, about 19–38 tok/s Gemma 3 1B, about 24–48 tok/s

Similar plans

Plans from other providers with about the same vCPU and RAM, cheapest first. Each percentage is against this plan's $124 a month.

Frequently asked

How much does DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 4C cost?: $124 a month excl. VAT, which is $15.50 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.
What do you get with DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 4C?: 4 dedicated vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 250 GB SSD of disk and 5 TB of traffic a month.
Where does DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 4C run?: In 10 locations: New York City, US, San Francisco, US, Amsterdam, NL, Singapore, SG, London, GB, Frankfurt, DE, Toronto, CA, Bangalore, IN, and more.
How does DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 4C compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 25% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 195% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 4/100 on hardware per dollar, #360 of the 374 plans that include a disk.