DigitalOceanBasic Premium Intel 1C · 2 GB · 70 GB
Basic
DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 1C costs $16/mo for 1 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM and 70 GB NVMe, cheaper than 80% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$16/mo
$0.0238/hour
$8 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 80% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 2 GB> 6% of offers
- vCPU
- 1 shared> 0% of offers
- Disk
- 70 GB NVMe> 49% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 2 TB/mo
Value score
50/100
- RAM · 2 GB
- 2.0
- vCPU · 1
- 1.5
- Disk · 70 GB NVMe
- 2.8
- Traffic · 2 TB
- 0.6
- 6.9 points ÷ $16
- 0.43 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 0.43 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 $16/mo, Basic Premium Intel 1C · 2 GB · 70 GB is cheaper than 80% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 2 GB of RAM at $8/GB, 48% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 50/100 ranks it #222 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 9th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
