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The developer cloud — Droplets, Kubernetes, Managed DBs, App Platform
Developer-focused cloud: Droplets (VMs), App Platform (PaaS), Managed DBs (Postgres/MySQL/MongoDB/Redis/Kafka), Kubernetes, Spaces (S3-compat), Load Balancers, GenAI platform, Functions (serverless). 15 global regions.
Data sourced from vendor documentation · Last updated May 2026
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Functions (Serverless) | Free | Free 90k GB-sec/month. $0.0000185 per GB-sec after. |
| App Platform — Free | Free | Static sites free forever. 3 static sites per account. |
| Droplet — Basic 512MB | $4/mo | Shared CPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD, 500 GiB transfer. Cheapest starting tier. |
| Spaces Object Storage | $5/mo | $5/month — 250 GB storage + 1 TB outbound. S3-compatible. |
| App Platform — Basic | $5/mo | $5/month per app. 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 1 GB bandwidth. |
| Droplet — Basic 1GB | $6/mo | Shared CPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD. |
| Kubernetes (DOKS) | $12/mo | Starts at $12/month (1 node). Control plane free. |
| Droplet — Basic 2GB | $12/mo | 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD, 2 TB transfer. |
| Load Balancer | $12/mo | $12/month. Supports HTTP/3 + Let's Encrypt. |
| Managed Postgres — Basic | $15/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB SSD. Single node. |
| Droplet — CPU Optimized | $42/mo | 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM dedicated. Best for CPU-bound workloads. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom. Volume discounts, dedicated support. |
Limits
| Tier | Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | affiliate program payout | $25-$200 per referral via Impact Radius | Formal affiliate program (higher-tier) |
| — | backups snapshot cost | 20% of Droplet cost/month (automatic), $0.06/GiB manual | Backup pricing |
| — | bandwidth overage | $0.01/GiB | Outbound transfer overage |
| — | billing model | per-second (60 sec minimum) | Usage billing granularity |
| — | ddos protection | included on all Droplets + Load Balancers | DDoS |
| — | droplet image library | 20+ one-click apps (WordPress, LAMP, Node.js, Docker, Django, Ruby on Rails, etc.) | Marketplace images |
| — | referral bonus to new | $200 credit for 60 days | New account incentive |
| — | referral bonus to referrer | $25 after $25 spent | Referral payout to current customers |
| — | regions | NYC1, NYC3, SFO2, SFO3, AMS3, SGP1, LON1, FRA1, TOR1, BLR1, SYD1, ATL1 (15 total) | Datacenter regions |
Features
- App Platform — Heroku-style PaaS. Deploy from Git. Auto-HTTPS, auto-scale, zero-downtime deploys. · docs
- Backups — Weekly automated backups (20% of Droplet cost). Manual snapshots.
- Block Storage Volumes — SSD block storage attachable to Droplets. Snapshot support. · docs
- DNS — Free DNS hosting for your domains.
- DOKS (Kubernetes) — Managed Kubernetes. Free control plane. Node auto-repair. · docs
- DigitalOcean GenAI Platform — Managed AI agents, model-as-a-service (Llama, Mistral), knowledge bases. · docs
- Droplets — Virtual machines with shared or dedicated CPU. 20+ one-click Marketplace images. · docs
- Functions — Serverless functions. Node, Python, Go, PHP, Ruby. Pay-per-execution. · docs
- Load Balancers — Layer 4/7 load balancing with HTTP/3 + Let's Encrypt.
- Managed Databases — Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, OpenSearch, Valkey. Automated backups + failover. · docs
- Marketplace — 300+ one-click Droplet + Kubernetes apps. · docs
- Monitoring — Built-in metrics + alerts for Droplets, DBs, Load Balancers.
- Spaces — S3-compatible object storage with built-in CDN. · docs
- VPC — Private networking. Free. Automatic default VPC per region.
Developer interfaces
| Slug | Name | Kind | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| mcp | DigitalOcean MCP | mcp | — |
| rest-api | DigitalOcean REST API | rest | v2 |
| doctl | doctl CLI | cli | 1.x |
| sdk-go | godo (Go) | sdk | 1.x |
| sdk-pydo | pydo (official py) | sdk | 0.x |
| sdk-python | python-digitalocean | sdk | 1.x |
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