DigitalOceanCPU-Optimized 8C · 16 GB · 500 GB
CPU-Optimized
DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 8C costs $248/mo for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 500 GB SSD, cheaper than 2% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$248/mo
$0.3691/hour
$15.50 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 2% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 53% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 dedicated> 71% of offers
- Disk
- 500 GB SSD> 91% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 6 TB/mo
Value score
4/100
- RAM · 16 GB
- 16.0
- vCPU · 8
- 12.0
- Disk · 500 GB SSD
- 16.0
- Traffic · 6 TB
- 1.8
- 45.8 points ÷ $248
- 0.18 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 0.18 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 $248/mo, CPU-Optimized 8C · 16 GB · 500 GB is cheaper than 2% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $15.50/GB, 186% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 4/100 ranks it #360 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 70th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 14B~3.2–6.4 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~3.2–6.4 tok/s
- Phi-4 14B~3.2–6.5 tok/s
- Mistral Nemo 12B~3.9–7.8 tok/s
- Gemma 3 12B~3.9–7.8 tok/s
- Qwen3 8B~5.8–12 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~5.8–12 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~5.9–12 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 16 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 8 dedicated vCPU.
