DigitalOceanBasic Regular 1C · 0.5 GB · 10 GB
Basic
DigitalOcean Basic Regular 1C costs $4/mo for 1 vCPU, 512 MB of RAM and 10 GB SSD, cheaper than 96% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$4/mo
$0.0060/hour
$8 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 96% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 512 MB> 0% of offers
- vCPU
- 1 shared> 0% of offers
- Disk
- 10 GB SSD> 29% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 500 GB/mo
Value score
72/100
- RAM · 512 MB
- 0.5
- vCPU · 1
- 1.5
- Disk · 10 GB SSD
- 0.3
- Traffic · 500 GB
- 0.1
- 2.5 points ÷ $4
- 0.62 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 0.62 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 $4/mo, Basic Regular 1C · 0.5 GB · 10 GB is cheaper than 96% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 512 MB of RAM at $8/GB, 48% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 72/100 ranks it #137 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
