Vultr

Optimized Cloud 2C · 4 GB

Optimized Cloud

Vultr Optimized Cloud 2C costs $40/mo for 2 vCPU, 4 GB of RAM and 50 GB NVMe, cheaper than 60% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Price

$40/mo

$0.0550/hour

$10 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 60% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
4 GB> 16% of offers
vCPU
2 dedicated> 14% of offers
Disk
50 GB NVMe> 41% of offers
Bandwidth
5.1 TB/mo

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Value score

20/100

RAM · 4 GB
4.0
vCPU · 2
3.0
Disk · 50 GB NVMe
2.0
Traffic · 5.1 TB
1.5
10.5 points ÷ $40
0.26 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 0.26 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

Vultr · Public API · api.vultr.com/v2/plans

Fetched 16 Sept 2026

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Where this sits in the market

At $40/mo, Optimized Cloud 2C · 4 GB is cheaper than 60% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 4 GB of RAM at $10/GB, 85% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 20/100 ranks it #305 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 23rd cheapest of Vultr's 66 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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