Linode

Dedicated 16GB

Dedicated CPU

Linode Dedicated 16GB costs $144/mo for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 320 GB SSD, cheaper than 18% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Price

$144/mo

$0.2160/hour

$9 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 18% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
16 GB> 53% of offers
vCPU
8 dedicated> 71% of offers
Disk
320 GB SSD> 81% of offers
Bandwidth
6 TB/mo

Value score

22/100

RAM · 16 GB
16.0
vCPU · 8
12.0
Disk · 320 GB SSD
10.2
Traffic · 6 TB
1.8
40.0 points ÷ $144
0.28 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 0.28 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 $144/mo, Dedicated 16GB is cheaper than 18% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $9/GB, 66% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 22/100 ranks it #301 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 14th 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 16 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 8 dedicated vCPU.

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