Gcorea1-cpu-16-16 · 16 vCPU · 16 GB
CPU-optimized a1 · Arm64
Gcore a1-cpu-16-16 costs $146.08/mo for 16 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and no disk, cheaper than 18% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$146.08/mo
billed €126.60/mo
$0.1996/hour
$9.13 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 18% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 53% of offers
- vCPU
- 16 dedicated> 94% of offers
- Disk
- none included · volumes extra> 0% of offers
- Bandwidth
- Not published
Excl. VAT · priced at Tokyo, JP, the lowest-priced region for this flavor; other regions cost more · no included disk, boot volume billed separately · hourly billing
Value score
24/100
- RAM · 16 GB
- 16.0
- vCPU · 16
- 24.0
- Disk · none included
- 0.0
- Traffic · not published, median 6.1 TB
- 1.8
- 41.8 points ÷ $146.08
- 0.29 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 0.29 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money. This price leaves out the disk, so the score can't be compared with plans that include one.
Regions · 1
Data provenance
Gcore · Live web · VM flavor table in the gcore.com/pricing/cloud payload (EUR excl. VAT, lowest-priced region)
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.
Where this sits in the market
At $146.08/mo, a1-cpu-16-16 · 16 vCPU · 16 GB is cheaper than 18% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $9.13/GB, 68% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its price leaves out the disk, which is billed separately, so our rankings skip it. It is the 74th cheapest of Gcore's 90 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 14B~4–8 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~4–8 tok/s
- Phi-4 14B~4.1–8.1 tok/s
- Mistral Nemo 12B~4.8–9.7 tok/s
- Gemma 3 12B~4.9–9.7 tok/s
- Qwen3 8B~7.3–15 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~7.3–15 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~7.4–15 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 16 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 16 dedicated vCPU.
