How much does DigitalOcean General Purpose Premium Intel 4C cost?

$151 a month excl. VAT, which is $9.44 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.

What do you get with DigitalOcean General Purpose Premium Intel 4C?

4 dedicated vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 60 GB NVMe of disk and 5 TB of traffic a month.

Where does DigitalOcean General Purpose Premium Intel 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 General Purpose Premium Intel 4C compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 17% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 80% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 2/100 on hardware per dollar, #366 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

DigitalOcean General Purpose Premium Intel 4C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

DigitalOcean General Purpose Premium Intel 4C costs $151 a month for 4 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 60 GB NVMe, cheaper than 17% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

General Purposededicated vCPU

Compare withvs Scaleway COMPUTE3-X6C-12G vs Scaleway STANDARD3-X4C-16G or any plan

Price

DigitalOcean

$151/mo

$9.44 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 17% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

2/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #366 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

General Purposededicated vCPU

Compare withvs Scaleway COMPUTE3-X6C-12G vs Scaleway STANDARD3-X4C-16G or any plan

What you get

RAM: 16 GBmore than 51% of plans
vCPU: 4 dedicatedmore than 40% of plans
Disk: 60 GB NVMemore than 45% of plans
Traffic: 5 TB a month

10 locations

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How it scores

Value 2/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.17 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 16 GB: 16.0
vCPU, 4: 6.0
Disk, 60 GB NVMe: 2.4
Traffic, 5 TB: 1.5
25.9 points for $151: 0.17 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.

Or a whole server

At 16 GB a dedicated server is worth a look: the cores, disks and port are all yours, not shared. One with 4 to 7 cores starts at $21.67 a month over the first year, setup fee included. 171 servers from 6 providers. every server with 4 to 7 cores

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 16 GB with room to spare, on its 4 dedicated vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen3 14B, about 1.6–3.2 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B, about 1.6–3.2 tok/s Phi-4 14B, about 1.6–3.2 tok/s Mistral Nemo 12B, about 1.9–3.9 tok/s Gemma 3 12B, about 1.9–3.9 tok/s Qwen3 8B, about 2.9–5.8 tok/s DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B, about 2.9–5.8 tok/s Llama 3.1 8B, about 3–5.9 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does DigitalOcean General Purpose Premium Intel 4C cost?: $151 a month excl. VAT, which is $9.44 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.
What do you get with DigitalOcean General Purpose Premium Intel 4C?: 4 dedicated vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 60 GB NVMe of disk and 5 TB of traffic a month.
Where does DigitalOcean General Purpose Premium Intel 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 General Purpose Premium Intel 4C compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 17% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 80% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 2/100 on hardware per dollar, #366 of the 374 plans that include a disk.