DigitalOceanBasic Premium AMD 8C · 32 GB · 400 GB
Basic
DigitalOcean Basic Premium AMD 8C costs $168/mo for 8 vCPU, 32 GB of RAM and 400 GB NVMe, cheaper than 12% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$168/mo
$0.2500/hour
$5.25 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 12% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 32 GB> 80% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 shared> 71% of offers
- Disk
- 400 GB NVMe> 86% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 10 TB/mo
Value score
38/100
- RAM · 32 GB
- 32.0
- vCPU · 8
- 12.0
- Disk · 400 GB NVMe
- 16.0
- Traffic · 10 TB
- 3.0
- 63.0 points ÷ $168
- 0.38 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 0.38 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 $168/mo, Basic Premium AMD 8C · 32 GB · 400 GB is cheaper than 12% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 32 GB of RAM at $5.25/GB, 3% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 38/100 ranks it #263 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 58th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 32B~1–1.9 tok/s
- Qwen2.5-Coder 32B~1–1.9 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B~1–1.9 tok/s
- Gemma 3 27B~1.2–2.3 tok/s
- Mistral Small 3.2 24B~1.3–2.6 tok/s
- Devstral Small 24B~1.3–2.7 tok/s
- gpt-oss-20b (MoE)~4.4–8.7 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~2.1–4.3 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 32 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 8 shared vCPU.
