DigitalOceanGeneral Purpose Premium Intel 4C · 16 GB · 60 GB
General Purpose
DigitalOcean General Purpose Premium Intel 4C costs $151/mo for 4 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 60 GB NVMe, cheaper than 16% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$151/mo
$0.2247/hour
$9.44 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 16% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 53% of offers
- vCPU
- 4 dedicated> 41% of offers
- Disk
- 60 GB NVMe> 45% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 5 TB/mo
Value score
2/100
- RAM · 16 GB
- 16.0
- vCPU · 4
- 6.0
- Disk · 60 GB NVMe
- 2.4
- Traffic · 5 TB
- 1.5
- 25.9 points ÷ $151
- 0.17 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 0.17 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 $151/mo, General Purpose Premium Intel 4C · 16 GB · 60 GB is cheaper than 16% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $9.44/GB, 74% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 2/100 ranks it #365 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 54th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 14B~1.6–3.2 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~1.6–3.2 tok/s
- Phi-4 14B~1.6–3.2 tok/s
- Mistral Nemo 12B~1.9–3.9 tok/s
- Gemma 3 12B~1.9–3.9 tok/s
- Qwen3 8B~2.9–5.8 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~2.9–5.8 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~3–5.9 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 4 dedicated vCPU.
