DigitalOceanCPU-Optimized Premium Intel 4C · 8 GB · 250 GB
CPU-Optimized
DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized Premium Intel 4C costs $161/mo for 4 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 250 GB NVMe, cheaper than 14% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$161/mo
$0.2396/hour
$20.13 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 14% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 8 GB> 31% of offers
- vCPU
- 4 dedicated> 41% of offers
- Disk
- 250 GB NVMe> 77% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 5 TB/mo
Value score
1/100
- RAM · 8 GB
- 8.0
- vCPU · 4
- 6.0
- Disk · 250 GB NVMe
- 10.0
- Traffic · 5 TB
- 1.5
- 25.5 points ÷ $161
- 0.16 per $
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.
The score ranks 0.16 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.
Regions · 10
Data provenance
DigitalOcean · Public pricing page · digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (embedded plan JSON)
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
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Where this sits in the market
At $161/mo, CPU-Optimized Premium Intel 4C · 8 GB · 250 GB is cheaper than 14% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $20.13/GB, 271% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 1/100 ranks it #366 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 56th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen2.5-Coder 7B~3.1–6.2 tok/s
- Gemma 3 4B~5.5–11 tok/s
- Qwen3 4B~5.9–12 tok/s
- Phi-4-mini 3.8B~6.2–12 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 3B~7.4–15 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B~19–38 tok/s
- Gemma 3 1B~24–48 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 8 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 4 dedicated vCPU.
