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DigitalOcean Droplets pricing

Simple virtual servers called Droplets, with flat monthly prices. You get a blank Linux machine and run everything yourself.

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Every plan below was checked against DigitalOcean Droplets's own pages on . Prices in USD.

Plans

Basic 512 MiB (1 vCPU, 10 GiB disk)

$4.00/month per instance

At the limit
Bills for extra usage
Usage pricing
  • Bandwidth: $0.01 per GB (above 500 GB)
  • Sized by you: the builder prices the cheapest Droplet with at least the server size set in "How usage is estimated" (1 GB by default). You manage updates, security and backups yourself.
  • The monthly price is a cap. Droplets are billed per second, so you never pay more than this for a full month.
  • A public IPv4 address is included. Inbound traffic is free.
  • Transfer allowance is pooled across all Droplets on your team, and does not roll over.
  • Weekly backups cost 20% of the Droplet price (30% for daily).

Source: digitalocean.com · checked

Basic 1 GiB (1 vCPU, 25 GiB disk)

$6.00/month per instance

At the limit
Bills for extra usage
Usage pricing
  • Bandwidth: $0.01 per GB (above 1,000 GB)
  • Transfer allowance is pooled across all Droplets on your team, and does not roll over.

Source: digitalocean.com · checked

Basic 2 GiB (1 vCPU, 50 GiB disk)

$12.00/month per instance

At the limit
Bills for extra usage
Usage pricing
  • Bandwidth: $0.01 per GB (above 2,000 GB)
  • Transfer allowance is pooled across all Droplets on your team, and does not roll over.

Source: digitalocean.com · checked

Basic 2 GiB (2 vCPU, 60 GiB disk)

$18.00/month per instance

At the limit
Bills for extra usage
Usage pricing
  • Bandwidth: $0.01 per GB (above 3,000 GB)
  • Transfer allowance is pooled across all Droplets on your team, and does not roll over.

Source: digitalocean.com · checked

Basic 4 GiB (2 vCPU, 80 GiB disk)

$24.00/month per instance

At the limit
Bills for extra usage
Usage pricing
  • Bandwidth: $0.01 per GB (above 4,000 GB)
  • Transfer allowance is pooled across all Droplets on your team, and does not roll over.

Source: digitalocean.com · checked

Basic 8 GiB (4 vCPU, 160 GiB disk)

$48.00/month per instance

At the limit
Bills for extra usage
Usage pricing
  • Bandwidth: $0.01 per GB (above 5,000 GB)
  • Transfer allowance is pooled across all Droplets on your team, and does not roll over.

Source: digitalocean.com · checked

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