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Optimized Cloud 8C · 16 GB

Optimized Cloud

Vultr Optimized Cloud 8C costs $160/mo for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 150 GB NVMe, cheaper than 15% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Price

$160/mo

$0.2190/hour

$10 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 15% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
16 GB> 53% of offers
vCPU
8 dedicated> 71% of offers
Disk
150 GB NVMe> 64% of offers
Bandwidth
7.2 TB/mo

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Value score

12/100

RAM · 16 GB
16.0
vCPU · 8
12.0
Disk · 150 GB NVMe
6.0
Traffic · 7.2 TB
2.2
36.2 points ÷ $160
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.

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 $160/mo, Optimized Cloud 8C · 16 GB is cheaper than 15% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $10/GB, 85% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 12/100 ranks it #335 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 56th 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 16 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 8 dedicated vCPU.

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