The g5_5-4vcpu-16gb-intel is a general purpose instance in the generalPurpose family with 4 vCPU and 16 GiB of memory. It costs $183.40 a month on-demand in global (global) and is offered in 1 region.
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22 Oct 2026
Tracking began
The list price has never changed in global since then.
No spot price recorded in global.
| Pod requests | Pods | Per pod, a month |
|---|---|---|
| 100m CPU, 128 MiB | 39cpu | $4.70 |
| 250m CPU, 512 MiB | 15cpu | $12.23 |
| 500m CPU, 1 GiB | 7cpu | $26.20 |
| 1 CPU, 4 GiB | 3cpu | $61.13 |
Node share from GKE's published kube-reserved formula plus a 100 MiB eviction threshold; EKS and AKS keep similar amounts. DaemonSets take more on top. At most 110 pods per node, the kubelet default.
First year, 3 instances
Reserved capacity is billed every hour of the month whether it runs or not.
Bars are on-demand per hour; the teal mark is spot. Price per vCPU varies by 46% across sizes.
No grid or power data for this type in global.
| $183.40 | — | — |
curl "https://prices.cloudadapt.io/api/v1/compute/digitalocean/g5_5-4vcpu-16gb-intel?region=global"
List prices from DigitalOcean in US dollars, before discounts, credits and taxes. A month is 730 hours, a year 8,760. DigitalOcean pricing page