Optimized Cloud 8C · 16 GB
Optimized Cloud
Vultr Optimized Cloud 8C costs $180/mo for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 300 GB NVMe, cheaper than 9% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$180/mo
$0.2470/hour
$11.25 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 9% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 53% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 dedicated> 71% of offers
- Disk
- 300 GB NVMe> 78% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 7.2 TB/mo
Deployable regions vary by plan; list shows all Vultr locations
Value score
14/100
- RAM · 16 GB
- 16.0
- vCPU · 8
- 12.0
- Disk · 300 GB NVMe
- 12.0
- Traffic · 7.2 TB
- 2.2
- 42.2 points ÷ $180
- 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 · 33
- Amsterdam, NL
- Atlanta, US
- Bangalore, IN
- Mumbai, IN
- Paris, FR
- Delhi NCR, IN
- Dallas, US
- New Jersey, US
- Frankfurt, DE
- Honolulu, US
- Seoul, KR
- Osaka, JP
- Johannesburg, ZA
- Los Angeles, US
- London, GB
- Madrid, ES
- Manchester, GB
- Melbourne, AU
- Mexico City, MX
- Miami, US
- Milan, IT
- Tokyo, JP
- Chicago, US
- São Paulo, BR
- Santiago, CL
- Seattle, US
- Singapore, SG
- Silicon Valley, US
- Stockholm, SE
- Sydney, AU
- Tel Aviv, IL
- Warsaw, PL
- Toronto, CA
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 $180/mo, Optimized Cloud 8C · 16 GB is cheaper than 9% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $11.25/GB, 108% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 14/100 ranks it #329 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 59th cheapest of Vultr's 66 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.