Pricing
DigitalOcean pricing context
Human-reviewed pricing summary paired with DevTune’s public AI search visibility benchmark.
Reviewed pricing summary
- Free tier: up to 3 static site apps at $0/month (1 GiB outbound transfer per app; additional static-site apps at $3/month each).
- Paid tier starts at $5/month for a shared fixed container (1 vCPU, 512 MiB RAM, 50 GiB transfer).
- Shared containers range from $5–$50/month depending on vCPU and RAM.
- Dedicated CPU containers (recommended for production/autoscaling workloads) are separately priced.
- Additional outbound transfer beyond per-instance allowances is billed at $0.02/GiB.
- Optional paid add-ons: dedicated egress IP ($25/app/month), development PostgreSQL database ($7/month).
- Apps are billed by the second (one-minute minimum).
- No hidden build fees or image storage fees.
- New accounts receive $200 in credit for the first 60 days.
Benchmark context
#8
of 12 in Deployment & Hosting Platforms
5.6%
AI search visibility
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