How much does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 8C cost?

$128 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 8C?

8 shared vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 480 GB NVMe of disk and 9 TB of traffic a month.

Where does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 8C 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 8C compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 23% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 52% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 39/100 on hardware per dollar, #259 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 8C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 8C costs $128 a month for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 480 GB NVMe, cheaper than 23% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

Basicshared vCPU

Compare withvs Hetzner CPX41 or any plan

Price

DigitalOcean

$128/mo

$8 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 23% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

39/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #259 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Basicshared vCPU

Compare withvs Hetzner CPX41 or any plan

What you get

RAM: 16 GBmore than 51% of plans
vCPU: 8 sharedmore than 70% of plans
Disk: 480 GB NVMemore than 89% of plans
Traffic: 9 TB a month

10 locations

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How it scores

Value 39/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.39 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 16 GB: 16.0
vCPU, 8: 12.0
Disk, 480 GB NVMe: 19.2
Traffic, 9 TB: 2.7
49.9 points for $128: 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.

Or a whole server

At 16 GB a dedicated server is worth a look: the cores, disks and port are all yours, not shared. One with 8 to 15 cores starts at $65 a month over the first year, setup fee included. 119 servers from 6 providers. every server with 8 to 15 cores

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 16 GB with room to spare, on its 8 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen3 14B, about 2.1–4.3 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B, about 2.1–4.3 tok/s Phi-4 14B, about 2.2–4.3 tok/s Mistral Nemo 12B, about 2.6–5.2 tok/s Gemma 3 12B, about 2.6–5.2 tok/s Qwen3 8B, about 3.9–7.7 tok/s DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B, about 3.9–7.7 tok/s Llama 3.1 8B, about 3.9–7.9 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 8C cost?: $128 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 8C?: 8 shared vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 480 GB NVMe of disk and 9 TB of traffic a month.
Where does DigitalOcean Basic Premium Intel 8C 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 8C compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 23% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 52% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 39/100 on hardware per dollar, #259 of the 374 plans that include a disk.