How much does Linode Premium 8GB cost?

$86 a month excl. VAT, which is $10.75 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Linode's own site.

What do you get with Linode Premium 8GB?

4 dedicated vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 160 GB SSD of disk and 5 TB of traffic a month.

Where does Linode Premium 8GB run?

In 22 locations: Washington, US, Chicago, US, Paris, FR, Seattle, US, Sao Paulo, BR, Amsterdam, NL, Stockholm, SE, Madrid, ES, and more.

How does Linode Premium 8GB compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 36% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 105% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 14/100 on hardware per dollar, #328 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Linode Premium 8GB.

Prices checked 31 Oct

Linode Premium 8GB costs $86 a month for 4 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 160 GB SSD, cheaper than 36% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

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Price

Linode

$86/mo

$10.75 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 36% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

14/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #328 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

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What you get

RAM: 8 GBmore than 31% of plans
vCPU: 4 dedicatedmore than 40% of plans
Disk: 160 GB SSDmore than 65% of plans
Traffic: 5 TB a month

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How it scores

Value 14/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.24 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 8 GB: 8.0
vCPU, 4: 6.0
Disk, 160 GB SSD: 5.1
Traffic, 5 TB: 1.5
20.6 points for $86: 0.24 a dollar

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.

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 8 GB with room to spare, on its 4 dedicated vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B, about 3.1–6.2 tok/s Gemma 3 4B, about 5.5–11 tok/s Qwen3 4B, about 5.9–12 tok/s Phi-4-mini 3.8B, about 6.2–12 tok/s Llama 3.2 3B, about 7.4–15 tok/s Llama 3.2 1B, about 19–38 tok/s Gemma 3 1B, about 24–48 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does Linode Premium 8GB cost?: $86 a month excl. VAT, which is $10.75 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Linode's own site.
What do you get with Linode Premium 8GB?: 4 dedicated vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 160 GB SSD of disk and 5 TB of traffic a month.
Where does Linode Premium 8GB run?: In 22 locations: Washington, US, Chicago, US, Paris, FR, Seattle, US, Sao Paulo, BR, Amsterdam, NL, Stockholm, SE, Madrid, ES, and more.
How does Linode Premium 8GB compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 36% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 105% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 14/100 on hardware per dollar, #328 of the 374 plans that include a disk.