How much does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 2C cost?

$48 a month excl. VAT, which is $6 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.

What do you get with DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 2C?

2 shared vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 160 GB NVMe of disk and 5 TB of traffic a month.

Where does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 2C run?

In 10 locations: New York City, US, San Francisco, US, Amsterdam, NL, Singapore, SG, London, GB, Frankfurt, DE, Toronto, CA, Bangalore, IN, and more.

How does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 2C compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 54% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 14% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 40/100 on hardware per dollar, #250 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 2C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 2C costs $48 a month for 2 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 160 GB NVMe, cheaper than 54% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

Basicshared vCPU

Compare withvs Hetzner CCX13 or any plan

Price

DigitalOcean

$48/mo

$6 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 54% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

40/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #250 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Basicshared vCPU

Compare withvs Hetzner CCX13 or any plan

What you get

RAM: 8 GBmore than 31% of plans
vCPU: 2 sharedmore than 14% of plans
Disk: 160 GB NVMemore than 65% of plans
Traffic: 5 TB a month

10 locations

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How it scores

Value 40/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.39 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 8 GB: 8.0
vCPU, 2: 3.0
Disk, 160 GB NVMe: 6.4
Traffic, 5 TB: 1.5
18.9 points for $48: 0.39 a dollar

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.

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 8 GB with room to spare, on its 2 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B, about 1–2.1 tok/s Gemma 3 4B, about 1.8–3.7 tok/s Qwen3 4B, about 2–3.9 tok/s Phi-4-mini 3.8B, about 2.1–4.1 tok/s Llama 3.2 3B, about 2.5–4.9 tok/s Llama 3.2 1B, about 6.4–13 tok/s Gemma 3 1B, about 7.9–16 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 2C cost?: $48 a month excl. VAT, which is $6 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.
What do you get with DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 2C?: 2 shared vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 160 GB NVMe of disk and 5 TB of traffic a month.
Where does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 2C run?: In 10 locations: New York City, US, San Francisco, US, Amsterdam, NL, Singapore, SG, London, GB, Frankfurt, DE, Toronto, CA, Bangalore, IN, and more.
How does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 2C compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 54% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 14% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 40/100 on hardware per dollar, #250 of the 374 plans that include a disk.