# Pricing transcribed from the provider's own page — see provenance. Numbers are quoted, not derived.
generated: '2026-09-20'
method: searched
source: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing
sources:
- https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing
provenance:
  tool: planning/api-economics/harvest_pricing.py
  run: 20260920T120546
  grounding: every price_text was found verbatim in the fetched page text
audience: developer-api
pricing_basis: usage-other
delivery:
  delivery: managed
  method: page
  read: '2026-09-20'
  managed_tier: Droplets
published: true
note: Product overview pricing page listing starting prices across DigitalOcean cloud products; mixed
  usage-based billing.
plan_count: 20
currency: USD
plans:
- name: AI/ML Inference
  price_text: Starting at $0.05 /M tokens
  price: 0.05
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: M tokens
- name: GPU Droplets
  price_text: Starting at $1.91 /GPU/hour*
  price: 1.91
  currency: USD
  period: per-use
  unit: GPU/hour
  included_quota: Based on multi-month contractual commitment. On-demand pricing from $ 0.76 /GPU/hour.
- name: Additional GPU Options
  price_text: Prices vary
  period: none
- name: Evaluations
  price_text: Prices vary*
  period: none
  included_quota: Billed on candidate and judge tokens
- name: App Platform
  price_text: Starting at $0 /month
  price: 0
  currency: USD
  period: month
- name: Droplets
  price_text: Starting at $4 /month
  price: 4
  currency: USD
  period: month
  included_quota: Droplets include free outbound data transfer, starting at 500 GiB / mo
  overage: Data transfer is $0.01 per GiB
- name: Kubernetes
  price_text: Starting at $12 /month
  price: 12
  currency: USD
  period: month
  included_quota: Free control plane, free bandwidth allowance
- name: Functions
  price_text: Starting at $0 /month
  price: 0
  currency: USD
  period: month
  included_quota: Use 90,000 GiB-seconds per month for free
- name: Cloudways Managed Hosting
  price_text: Starting at $11 /month
  price: 11
  currency: USD
  period: month
- name: Backups
  price_text: Usage-based starting at $ 0.01 /GiB per month
  price: 0.01
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: GiB
  included_quota: 20 % (for weekly) of Droplet cost per month; 30 % (for daily)
- name: Databases
  price_text: Starting at $15 /month
  price: 15
  currency: USD
  period: month
- name: Spaces
  price_text: Starting at $5 /month
  price: 5
  currency: USD
  period: month
- name: Network File Storage
  price_text: Starting at $0.15 /per GiB/month
  price: 0.15
  currency: USD
  period: month
  unit: GiB
  included_quota: Starting from 50 GiB
- name: Volumes
  price_text: Starting at $10 /month
  price: 10
  currency: USD
  period: month
- name: Container Registry
  price_text: Starting at $0 /month
  price: 0
  currency: USD
  period: month
  included_quota: 1 repository and 500 MiB storage
- name: Load Balancers
  price_text: Starting at $12 /month
  price: 12
  currency: USD
  period: month
- name: Support Plans
  price_text: Starting at $0 /month
  price: 0
  currency: USD
  period: month
- name: Virtual Private Cloud
  price_text: Starting at $0 /month
  price: 0
  currency: USD
  period: month
  included_quota: 'VPC NAT Gateway: $40.00 per node, includes 100 GiB bandwidth'
  overage: overage $0.01/GiB
- name: Uptime
  price_text: Starting at $0 /month
  price: 0
  currency: USD
  period: month
  included_quota: One Uptime Check/month included with every account
- name: Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
  price_text: Starting at $0 /month
  price: 0
  currency: USD
  period: month
rate_limit_statements:
- supports up to 500,000 connections
- Per-sec billing with 60 sec minimum or $0.01, whichever is higher