Linode

Premium 4GB

Premium CPU

Linode Premium 4GB costs $43/mo for 2 vCPU, 4 GB of RAM and 80 GB SSD, cheaper than 57% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Price

$43/mo

$0.0645/hour

$10.75 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 57% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
4 GB> 16% of offers
vCPU
2 dedicated> 14% of offers
Disk
80 GB SSD> 50% of offers
Bandwidth
4 TB/mo

Value score

17/100

RAM · 4 GB
4.0
vCPU · 2
3.0
Disk · 80 GB SSD
2.6
Traffic · 4 TB
1.2
10.8 points ÷ $43
0.25 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 0.25 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

Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.

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Where this sits in the market

At $43/mo, Premium 4GB is cheaper than 57% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 4 GB of RAM at $10.75/GB, 98% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 17/100 ranks it #313 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 5th 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 4 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 2 dedicated vCPU.

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