STRATOVPS XL · 8 vCPU · 16 GB
Linux V-Server
STRATO VPS XL costs $37.81/mo for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 480 GB NVMe, cheaper than 61% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$37.81/mo
billed €32.77/mo
$2.36 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 61% of tracked offers
↑ $4.52 on 11 Sept 2026
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 53% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 shared> 71% of offers
- Disk
- 480 GB NVMe> 90% of offers
- Bandwidth
- Unmetered
Excl. VAT: net derived from the advertised €39 incl. 19% VAT · 1-month term · €9 setup fee
Value score
87/100
- RAM · 16 GB
- 16.0
- vCPU · 8
- 12.0
- Disk · 480 GB NVMe
- 19.2
- Traffic · unmetered, as 10 TB
- 3.0
- 50.2 points ÷ $37.81
- 1.33 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 1.33 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.
Regions · 1
Data provenance
STRATO · Live web · Linux V-Server table on strato.de (1-month term; net derived from 19 % VAT)
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.
Where this sits in the market
At $37.81/mo, VPS XL · 8 vCPU · 16 GB is cheaper than 61% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $2.36/GB, 56% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 87/100 ranks it #63 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 4th cheapest of STRATO's 5 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 14B~2.1–4.3 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~2.1–4.3 tok/s
- Phi-4 14B~2.2–4.3 tok/s
- Mistral Nemo 12B~2.6–5.2 tok/s
- Gemma 3 12B~2.6–5.2 tok/s
- Qwen3 8B~3.9–7.7 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~3.9–7.7 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~3.9–7.9 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 shared vCPU.
