DigitalOcean vs Gcore.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

On today's data, Gcore undercuts DigitalOcean on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $4.89/GB against $8/GB. The cheapest way in is Gcore at $0.82/mo (g2s-shared-1-1-25 · 1 vCPU · 1 GB, disk billed separately). DigitalOcean counters with broader reach: 10 locations vs 8.

At 4 GB of RAM the cheaper of the two is Gcore g1s-shared-2-4 at $3.51/mo, against DigitalOcean at $24/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

DigitalOceanall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  Basic Regular 1C · 0.5 GB · 10 GB

  1 vCPU · 512 MB · 10 GB SSD

  $4/moView at DigitalOcean ↗

Gcoreall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  g2s-shared-1-1-25 · 1 vCPU · 1 GB

  1 vCPU · 1 GB · no disk

  $0.82/moView at Gcore ↗

compare the two best-value plans side by side →

MetricDigitalOceanGcore

Plans tracked7090

Cheapest plan$4/mo$0.82/mo

Median $/GB RAM$8/GB$4.89/GB

Avg value score27/10047/100

Locations108

Dedicated-vCPU plans3976

NVMe share69%0%

Unmetered bandwidth0% of plans0% of plans

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

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DigitalOcean

Basic Regular 1C · 2 GB · 50 GB

1 vCPU · 2 GB · 50 GB SSD · $12/mo

Gcorewins

g1s-shared-1-2 · 1 vCPU · 2 GB

1 vCPU · 2 GB · no disk · $1.75/mo

≥ 4 GB RAM

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DigitalOcean

Basic Regular 2C · 4 GB · 80 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · $24/mo

Gcorewins

g1s-shared-2-4 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · no disk · $3.51/mo

≥ 8 GB RAM

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DigitalOcean

Basic Premium AMD 2C · 8 GB · 100 GB

2 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB NVMe · $42/mo

Gcorewins

g1-standard-2-8 · 2 vCPU · 8 GB

2 vCPU · 8 GB · no disk · $25.57/mo

Top value plans from each

DigitalOcean

• Basic Regular 1C · 0.5 GB · 10 GBvalue 72/100$4
• Basic Regular 1C · 1 GB · 25 GBvalue 71/100$6
• Basic Premium Intel 1C · 1 GB · 25 GBvalue 67/100$7
• Basic Premium AMD 1C · 1 GB · 25 GBvalue 67/100$7
• Basic Premium Intel 1C · 1 GB · 35 GBvalue 64/100$8

Gcore

• g2s-shared-1-1-25 · 1 vCPU · 1 GBvalue 100/100$0.82
• g1s-shared-1-0.5 · 1 vCPU · 0.5 GBvalue 100/100$0.88
• g1s-shared-1-1 · 1 vCPU · 1 GBvalue 99/100$1.17
• g1s-shared-1-2 · 1 vCPU · 2 GBvalue 99/100$1.75
• g1s-shared-2-2 · 2 vCPU · 2 GBvalue 98/100$2.33

Prices exclude VAT, fetched 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own API or public price page. DigitalOcean data: Public pricing page · digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (embedded plan JSON). Gcore data: Live web · VM flavor table in the gcore.com/pricing/cloud payload (EUR excl. VAT, lowest-priced region).