DigitalOcean Droplet pricing, on its own published figures
DigitalOcean (DO) is a developer cloud provider whose Droplets pricing page prints a table of virtual machines by memory and CPU with an hourly and a monthly price for each, from $4 a month for the smallest, and states that billing is per second with a monthly cap. DO Droplet pricing has no term and no intro. Every figure below was fetched from that page and matched word for word on the date shown.
Verified facts on DigitalOcean
| What | Figure | The host's own words | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price, per month | $4/mo | "512 MiB 1 vCPU 500 GiB 10 GiB $0.00595 $ 4.00" | DigitalOcean Droplets pricing page (smallest Regular Droplet, $/mo) checked September 2026 |
| Term the entry price requires | 1 mo term | "we're moving to per-second billing" | DigitalOcean Droplets pricing page (no term: per-second billing, monthly cap) checked September 2026 |
DigitalOcean stacks, evidenced
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DigitalOcean Droplet prices by size
The smallest Regular Droplet (512 MiB, 1 vCPU) at $4 a month, then $6, $12, $18 and $24 as memory and CPU rise, with Premium Intel and AMD options above. Droplet hosting is unmanaged at every size: the price buys the machine, and the operating system, web server and updates are yours.
Against the VPS stack's managed plans the entry price is a fraction, and the difference is exactly the management; against the shared hosts' intro prices it is comparable and carries no term.
Common questions
- How much does a DigitalOcean Droplet cost?
- From $4 a month for the smallest Regular Droplet, billed per second with a monthly cap, by the vendor's own page; larger Droplets rise from there.
- Is DigitalOcean managed hosting?
- No. The price buys the virtual machine; running it is yours unless you add a managed layer from elsewhere.
- Does DigitalOcean have a term or intro price?
- Neither; billing is per second with a monthly cap, so the printed monthly figure is the most that instance costs in a month.
- Does DigitalOcean have a free tier?
- Not on its Droplets pricing page as read in October 2026: the smallest Regular Droplet prints $4 a month. Any trial credit is not published on that page, so it is not counted here.