Linode

Dedicated 8GB

Dedicated CPU

Linode Dedicated 8GB costs $72/mo for 4 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 160 GB SSD, cheaper than 43% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Price

$72/mo

$0.1080/hour

$9 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 43% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
8 GB> 31% of offers
vCPU
4 dedicated> 41% of offers
Disk
160 GB SSD> 66% of offers
Bandwidth
5 TB/mo

Value score

23/100

RAM · 8 GB
8.0
vCPU · 4
6.0
Disk · 160 GB SSD
5.1
Traffic · 5 TB
1.5
20.6 points ÷ $72
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.

Data provenance

Linode · Public API · api.linode.com/v4/linode/types

Fetched 16 Sept 2026

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Where this sits in the market

At $72/mo, Dedicated 8GB is cheaper than 43% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $9/GB, 66% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 23/100 ranks it #297 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 9th cheapest of Linode's 18 tracked plans.

Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference

how we compute this →

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 4 dedicated vCPU.

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