LinodePremium 16GB
Premium CPU
Linode Premium 16GB costs $173/mo for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 320 GB SSD, cheaper than 11% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$173/mo
$0.2595/hour
$10.81 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 11% 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
13/100
- RAM · 16 GB
- 16.0
- vCPU · 8
- 12.0
- Disk · 320 GB SSD
- 10.2
- Traffic · 6 TB
- 1.8
- 40.0 points ÷ $173
- 0.23 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 0.23 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.
Regions · 22
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 $173/mo, Premium 16GB is cheaper than 11% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $10.81/GB, 99% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 13/100 ranks it #331 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 15th cheapest of Linode's 18 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 14B~3.2–6.4 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~3.2–6.4 tok/s
- Phi-4 14B~3.2–6.5 tok/s
- Mistral Nemo 12B~3.9–7.8 tok/s
- Gemma 3 12B~3.9–7.8 tok/s
- Qwen3 8B~5.8–12 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~5.8–12 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~5.9–12 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 8 dedicated vCPU.
