Pricing
DigitalOcean pricing context
Human-reviewed pricing summary paired with DevTune’s public AI search visibility benchmark.
Reviewed pricing summary
- DigitalOcean uses transparent flat-rate and usage-based pricing with monthly caps and no long-term contracts required for most products.
- Droplets from $4/month; Managed Kubernetes from $12/month (free control plane); App Platform from $0/month (free static site tier); Managed Databases from $15/month; Spaces object storage from $5/month (includes 250 GiB storage + CDN); Serverless Functions from $0 (90,000 GiB-seconds/month free); GPU Droplets from $0.76/GPU/hour on-demand (or $1.88/GPU/hour on multi-month commitment); Gradient™ AI serverless inference from $0.05/million tokens.
- Public internet egress overage is $0.01/GiB.
- A Forrester Total Economic Impact study commissioned by DigitalOcean found a 186% ROI over three years with payback in under six months for a representative customer.
Benchmark context
#5
of 12 in Cloud Infrastructure & PaaS
16.0%
AI search visibility
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