DigitalOceanMemory-Optimized Premium Intel 4C · 32 GB · 100 GB
Memory-Optimized
DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized Premium Intel 4C costs $198/mo for 4 vCPU, 32 GB of RAM and 100 GB NVMe, cheaper than 6% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$198/mo
$0.2946/hour
$6.19 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 6% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 32 GB> 80% of offers
- vCPU
- 4 dedicated> 41% of offers
- Disk
- 100 GB NVMe> 55% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 6 TB/mo
Value score
11/100
- RAM · 32 GB
- 32.0
- vCPU · 4
- 6.0
- Disk · 100 GB NVMe
- 4.0
- Traffic · 6 TB
- 1.8
- 43.8 points ÷ $198
- 0.22 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 0.22 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 $198/mo, Memory-Optimized Premium Intel 4C · 32 GB · 100 GB is cheaper than 6% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 32 GB of RAM at $6.19/GB, 14% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 11/100 ranks it #338 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 65th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 32B~0.7–1.5 tok/s
- Qwen2.5-Coder 32B~0.7–1.5 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B~0.7–1.5 tok/s
- Gemma 3 27B~0.9–1.7 tok/s
- Mistral Small 3.2 24B~1–2 tok/s
- Devstral Small 24B~1–2 tok/s
- gpt-oss-20b (MoE)~3.3–6.5 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~1.6–3.2 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 32 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 4 dedicated vCPU.
