DigitalOcean

Basic Premium Intel 1C · 1 GB · 35 GB

Basic

DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 1C costs $8/mo for 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM and 35 GB NVMe, cheaper than 90% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Price

$8/mo

$0.0119/hour

$8 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 90% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
1 GB> 1% of offers
vCPU
1 shared> 0% of offers
Disk
35 GB NVMe> 37% of offers
Bandwidth
1 TB/mo

Value score

64/100

RAM · 1 GB
1.0
vCPU · 1
1.5
Disk · 35 GB NVMe
1.4
Traffic · 1 TB
0.3
4.2 points ÷ $8
0.53 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 0.53 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.

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 $8/mo, Basic Premium Intel 1C · 1 GB · 35 GB is cheaper than 90% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 1 GB of RAM at $8/GB, 48% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 64/100 ranks it #172 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 5th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.

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