How much does DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized 4C cost?

$168 a month excl. VAT, which is $5.25 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.

What do you get with DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized 4C?

4 dedicated vCPU, 32 GB of RAM, 100 GB NVMe of disk and 6 TB of traffic a month.

Where does DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized 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 Memory-Optimized 4C compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 12% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs the same as the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 18/100 on hardware per dollar, #313 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized 4C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized 4C costs $168 a month for 4 vCPU, 32 GB of RAM and 100 GB NVMe, cheaper than 12% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

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Price

DigitalOcean

$168/mo

$5.25 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 12% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

18/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #313 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

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What you get

RAM: 32 GBmore than 78% of plans
vCPU: 4 dedicatedmore than 40% of plans
Disk: 100 GB NVMemore than 55% of plans
Traffic: 6 TB a month

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How it scores

Value 18/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.26 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 32 GB: 32.0
vCPU, 4: 6.0
Disk, 100 GB NVMe: 4.0
Traffic, 6 TB: 1.8
43.8 points for $168: 0.26 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 32 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 32 GB with room to spare, on its 4 dedicated vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen3 32B, about 0.7–1.5 tok/s Qwen2.5-Coder 32B, about 0.7–1.5 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B, about 0.7–1.5 tok/s Gemma 3 27B, about 0.9–1.7 tok/s Mistral Small 3.2 24B, about 1–2 tok/s Devstral Small 24B, about 1–2 tok/s gpt-oss-20b (MoE), about 3.3–6.5 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B, about 1.6–3.2 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized 4C cost?: $168 a month excl. VAT, which is $5.25 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.
What do you get with DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized 4C?: 4 dedicated vCPU, 32 GB of RAM, 100 GB NVMe of disk and 6 TB of traffic a month.
Where does DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized 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 Memory-Optimized 4C compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 12% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs the same as the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 18/100 on hardware per dollar, #313 of the 374 plans that include a disk.