DreamHostStack 8 · 2 vCPU · 8 GB
VPS · AMD EPYC
DreamHost Stack 8 costs $21.99/mo for 2 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 150 GB NVMe, cheaper than 72% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$21.99/mo
$2.75 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 72% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 8 GB> 31% of offers
- vCPU
- 2 shared> 14% of offers
- Disk
- 150 GB NVMe> 64% of offers
- Bandwidth
- Unmetered
Standard renewal rate before tax (intro promo $13.99/mo data-icu-price-gbp="£18.49">$21.99 ignored)
Value score
80/100
- RAM · 8 GB
- 8.0
- vCPU · 2
- 3.0
- Disk · 150 GB NVMe
- 6.0
- Traffic · unmetered, as 10 TB
- 3.0
- 20.0 points ÷ $21.99
- 0.91 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 0.91 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.
Regions · 1
Data provenance
DreamHost · Live web · VPS Stack cards on dreamhost.com (auto-renewal rate, intro promo ignored)
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.
Where this sits in the market
At $21.99/mo, Stack 8 · 2 vCPU · 8 GB is cheaper than 72% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $2.75/GB, 49% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 80/100 ranks it #99 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 2nd cheapest of DreamHost's 4 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen2.5-Coder 7B~1–2.1 tok/s
- Gemma 3 4B~1.8–3.7 tok/s
- Qwen3 4B~2–3.9 tok/s
- Phi-4-mini 3.8B~2.1–4.1 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 3B~2.5–4.9 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B~6.4–13 tok/s
- Gemma 3 1B~7.9–16 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 8 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 2 shared vCPU.
