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Optimized Cloud 1C · 8 GB

Optimized Cloud

Vultr Optimized Cloud 1C costs $40/mo for 1 vCPU, 8 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

$5 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 60% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
8 GB> 31% of offers
vCPU
1 dedicated> 0% of offers
Disk
50 GB NVMe> 41% of offers
Bandwidth
5.1 TB/mo

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Value score

30/100

RAM · 8 GB
8.0
vCPU · 1
1.5
Disk · 50 GB NVMe
2.0
Traffic · 5.1 TB
1.5
13.0 points ÷ $40
0.33 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 0.33 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 1C · 8 GB is cheaper than 60% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $5/GB, 8% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 30/100 ranks it #280 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 22nd 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 8 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 1 dedicated vCPU.

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