How much does DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized Premium Intel 2C cost?

$99 a month excl. VAT, which is $6.19 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.

What do you get with DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized Premium Intel 2C?

2 dedicated vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 50 GB NVMe of disk and 4 TB of traffic a month.

Where does DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized Premium Intel 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 Memory-Optimized Premium Intel 2C compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 31% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 18% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 11/100 on hardware per dollar, #339 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized Premium Intel 2C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized Premium Intel 2C costs $99 a month for 2 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 50 GB NVMe, cheaper than 31% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

Memory-Optimizeddedicated vCPU

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Price

DigitalOcean

$99/mo

$6.19 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 31% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

11/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #339 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

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What you get

RAM: 16 GBmore than 51% of plans
vCPU: 2 dedicatedmore than 14% of plans
Disk: 50 GB NVMemore than 40% of plans
Traffic: 4 TB a month

10 locations

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How it scores

Value 11/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.22 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 16 GB: 16.0
vCPU, 2: 3.0
Disk, 50 GB NVMe: 2.0
Traffic, 4 TB: 1.2
22.2 points for $99: 0.22 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 16 GB with room to spare, on its 2 dedicated vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen3 14B, about 0.8–1.6 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B, about 0.8–1.6 tok/s Phi-4 14B, about 0.8–1.6 tok/s Mistral Nemo 12B, about 1–1.9 tok/s Gemma 3 12B, about 1–1.9 tok/s Qwen3 8B, about 1.5–2.9 tok/s DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B, about 1.5–2.9 tok/s Llama 3.1 8B, about 1.5–3 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized Premium Intel 2C cost?: $99 a month excl. VAT, which is $6.19 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.
What do you get with DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized Premium Intel 2C?: 2 dedicated vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 50 GB NVMe of disk and 4 TB of traffic a month.
Where does DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized Premium Intel 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 Memory-Optimized Premium Intel 2C compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 31% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 18% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 11/100 on hardware per dollar, #339 of the 374 plans that include a disk.