How much does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 4C cost?

$64 a month excl. VAT, which is $8 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.

What do you get with DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 4C?

4 shared vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 240 GB NVMe of disk and 6 TB of traffic a month.

Where does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 4C 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 4C compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 47% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 52% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 42/100 on hardware per dollar, #246 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 4C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 4C costs $64 a month for 4 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 240 GB NVMe, cheaper than 47% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

Basicshared vCPU

Compare withvs Hetzner CPX31 or any plan

Price

DigitalOcean

$64/mo

$8 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 47% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

42/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #246 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Basicshared vCPU

Compare withvs Hetzner CPX31 or any plan

What you get

RAM: 8 GBmore than 31% of plans
vCPU: 4 sharedmore than 40% of plans
Disk: 240 GB NVMemore than 74% of plans
Traffic: 6 TB a month

10 locations

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How it scores

Value 42/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.40 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 8 GB: 8.0
vCPU, 4: 6.0
Disk, 240 GB NVMe: 9.6
Traffic, 6 TB: 1.8
25.4 points for $64: 0.40 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 4 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B, about 2.1–4.2 tok/s Gemma 3 4B, about 3.7–7.4 tok/s Qwen3 4B, about 3.9–7.9 tok/s Phi-4-mini 3.8B, about 4.1–8.2 tok/s Llama 3.2 3B, about 4.9–9.9 tok/s Llama 3.2 1B, about 13–26 tok/s Gemma 3 1B, about 16–32 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 4C cost?: $64 a month excl. VAT, which is $8 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.
What do you get with DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 4C?: 4 shared vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 240 GB NVMe of disk and 6 TB of traffic a month.
Where does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 4C 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 4C compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 47% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 52% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 42/100 on hardware per dollar, #246 of the 374 plans that include a disk.