DigitalOcean

Basic Premium Intel 1C · 2 GB · 50 GB

Basic

DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 1C costs $14/mo for 1 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM and 50 GB NVMe, cheaper than 82% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Price

$14/mo

$0.0208/hour

$7 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 82% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
2 GB> 6% of offers
vCPU
1 shared> 0% of offers
Disk
50 GB NVMe> 41% of offers
Bandwidth
2 TB/mo

Value score

51/100

RAM · 2 GB
2.0
vCPU · 1
1.5
Disk · 50 GB NVMe
2.0
Traffic · 2 TB
0.6
6.1 points ÷ $14
0.44 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 0.44 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 $14/mo, Basic Premium Intel 1C · 2 GB · 50 GB is cheaper than 82% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 2 GB of RAM at $7/GB, 29% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 51/100 ranks it #217 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 7th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.

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