How much does DigitalOcean General Purpose 2C cost?

$68 a month excl. VAT, which is $8.50 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.

What do you get with DigitalOcean General Purpose 2C?

2 dedicated vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 50 GB SSD of disk and 4 TB of traffic a month.

Where does DigitalOcean General Purpose 2C 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 2C compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 44% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 62% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 7/100 on hardware per dollar, #350 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

DigitalOcean General Purpose 2C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

DigitalOcean General Purpose 2C costs $68 a month for 2 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 50 GB SSD, cheaper than 44% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

General Purposededicated vCPU

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Price

DigitalOcean

$68/mo

$8.50 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 44% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

7/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #350 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

General Purposededicated vCPU

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What you get

RAM: 8 GBmore than 31% of plans
vCPU: 2 dedicatedmore than 14% of plans
Disk: 50 GB SSDmore than 40% of plans
Traffic: 4 TB a month

10 locations

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How it scores

Value 7/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.20 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 8 GB: 8.0
vCPU, 2: 3.0
Disk, 50 GB SSD: 1.6
Traffic, 4 TB: 1.2
13.8 points for $68: 0.20 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 2 dedicated vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B, about 1.6–3.1 tok/s Gemma 3 4B, about 2.8–5.5 tok/s Qwen3 4B, about 3–5.9 tok/s Phi-4-mini 3.8B, about 3.1–6.2 tok/s Llama 3.2 3B, about 3.7–7.4 tok/s Llama 3.2 1B, about 9.6–19 tok/s Gemma 3 1B, about 12–24 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does DigitalOcean General Purpose 2C cost?: $68 a month excl. VAT, which is $8.50 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.
What do you get with DigitalOcean General Purpose 2C?: 2 dedicated vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 50 GB SSD of disk and 4 TB of traffic a month.
Where does DigitalOcean General Purpose 2C 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 2C compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 44% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 62% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 7/100 on hardware per dollar, #350 of the 374 plans that include a disk.