How much does DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized 2C cost?

$131 a month excl. VAT, which is $8.19 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.

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

2 dedicated vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 300 GB NVMe of disk and 4 TB of traffic a month.

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

It is cheaper than 22% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 56% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 16/100 on hardware per dollar, #321 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized 2C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized 2C costs $131 a month for 2 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 300 GB NVMe, cheaper than 22% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

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Price

DigitalOcean

$131/mo

$8.19 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 22% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

16/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #321 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: 300 GB NVMemore than 77% of plans
Traffic: 4 TB a month

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How it scores

Value 16/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.25 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, 300 GB NVMe: 12.0
Traffic, 4 TB: 1.2
32.2 points for $131: 0.25 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 2C cost?: $131 a month excl. VAT, which is $8.19 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.
What do you get with DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized 2C?: 2 dedicated vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 300 GB NVMe of disk and 4 TB of traffic a month.
Where does DigitalOcean Memory-Optimized 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 2C compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 22% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 56% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 16/100 on hardware per dollar, #321 of the 374 plans that include a disk.