How much does DigitalOcean Basic Premium AMD 8C cost?

$168 a month excl. VAT, which is $5.25 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.

What do you get with DigitalOcean Basic Premium AMD 8C?

8 shared vCPU, 32 GB of RAM, 400 GB NVMe of disk and 10 TB of traffic a month.

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

It is cheaper than 12% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs the same as the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 35/100 on hardware per dollar, #270 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

DigitalOcean Basic Premium AMD 8C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

DigitalOcean Basic Premium AMD 8C costs $168 a month for 8 vCPU, 32 GB of RAM and 400 GB NVMe, cheaper than 12% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

Basicshared vCPU

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Price

DigitalOcean

$168/mo

$5.25 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 12% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

35/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #270 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Basicshared vCPU

Compare withvs Civo Standard 2X Large or any plan

What you get

RAM: 32 GBmore than 78% of plans
vCPU: 8 sharedmore than 70% of plans
Disk: 400 GB NVMemore than 85% of plans
Traffic: 10 TB a month

10 locations

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How it scores

Value 35/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.38 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 32 GB: 32.0
vCPU, 8: 12.0
Disk, 400 GB NVMe: 16.0
Traffic, 10 TB: 3.0
63.0 points for $168: 0.38 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 32 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 32 GB with room to spare, on its 8 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen3 32B, about 1–1.9 tok/s Qwen2.5-Coder 32B, about 1–1.9 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B, about 1–1.9 tok/s Gemma 3 27B, about 1.2–2.3 tok/s Mistral Small 3.2 24B, about 1.3–2.6 tok/s Devstral Small 24B, about 1.3–2.7 tok/s gpt-oss-20b (MoE), about 4.4–8.7 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B, about 2.1–4.3 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does DigitalOcean Basic Premium AMD 8C cost?: $168 a month excl. VAT, which is $5.25 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.
What do you get with DigitalOcean Basic Premium AMD 8C?: 8 shared vCPU, 32 GB of RAM, 400 GB NVMe of disk and 10 TB of traffic a month.
Where does DigitalOcean Basic Premium AMD 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 AMD 8C compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 12% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs the same as the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 35/100 on hardware per dollar, #270 of the 374 plans that include a disk.