DigitalOceanBasic Regular 1C · 2 GB · 50 GB
Basic
DigitalOcean Basic Regular 1C costs $12/mo for 1 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM and 50 GB SSD, cheaper than 84% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$12/mo
$0.0179/hour
$6 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 84% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 2 GB> 6% of offers
- vCPU
- 1 shared> 0% of offers
- Disk
- 50 GB SSD> 41% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 2 TB/mo
Value score
58/100
- RAM · 2 GB
- 2.0
- vCPU · 1
- 1.5
- Disk · 50 GB SSD
- 1.6
- Traffic · 2 TB
- 0.6
- 5.7 points ÷ $12
- 0.47 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 0.47 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 $12/mo, Basic Regular 1C · 2 GB · 50 GB is cheaper than 84% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 2 GB of RAM at $6/GB, 11% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 58/100 ranks it #194 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 6th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
