DigitalOceanBasic Premium Intel 2C · 8 GB · 160 GB
Basic
DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 2C costs $48/mo for 2 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 160 GB NVMe, cheaper than 52% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$48/mo
$0.0714/hour
$6 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 52% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 8 GB> 31% of offers
- vCPU
- 2 shared> 14% of offers
- Disk
- 160 GB NVMe> 66% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 5 TB/mo
Value score
43/100
- RAM · 8 GB
- 8.0
- vCPU · 2
- 3.0
- Disk · 160 GB NVMe
- 6.4
- Traffic · 5 TB
- 1.5
- 18.9 points ÷ $48
- 0.39 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 0.39 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 $48/mo, Basic Premium Intel 2C · 8 GB · 160 GB is cheaper than 52% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $6/GB, 11% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 43/100 ranks it #244 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 22nd cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen2.5-Coder 7B~1–2.1 tok/s
- Gemma 3 4B~1.8–3.7 tok/s
- Qwen3 4B~2–3.9 tok/s
- Phi-4-mini 3.8B~2.1–4.1 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 3B~2.5–4.9 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B~6.4–13 tok/s
- Gemma 3 1B~7.9–16 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 8 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 2 shared vCPU.
