DigitalOcean

Entry plans and the real monthly bill

In US dollars, per month, as listed by DigitalOcean (All regions). IPv4 added where it's charged separately.

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Where DigitalOcean has datacenters

13 in 8 countries, as listed by DigitalOcean.

Where it stands among 43

Each fact with every host's answer. DigitalOcean is outlined.

Add-ons and extra charges

Public IPv4

Included Included on bundled plans; on v5 configurations IPv4 is a separate line item, currently $0.00/hour and subject to change

Automatic backups

20% of the plan price Usage-based backup plans from $0.01/GiB-month are also offered

Snapshots

$0.06 per GB-month Minimum charge $0.01

Extra traffic

$9.31 per TB Stated as $0.01 per GiB (shown here per 1,000 GB)

How you pay

Hourly billing

YesYes Per-second billing with a 60-second minimum

Minimum term

None (per-second)

Setup fee

Not stated No setup fee is mentioned on the pricing pages

Always-free server

None No free Droplet listed; Basic plans start at $4/month

New-account credit

Not stated Not stated on the pricing pages; a community Q&A page (not used as a source) mentions a $5 credit for 90 days

Payment methods

Card, PayPal, Alipay, Crypto, Prepaid credit, Bank transfer Also Google Pay and Apple Pay; stablecoin payments only for some customers; ACH for qualifying US customers; wire transfer via sales; prepaid cards not accepted

Signup checks

Payment method required to verify identity; a temporary card pre-authorisation (typically $1)

Refunds

No refunds Support can be contacted about extenuating circumstances

What you get

Processors

Intel Xeon Scalable, AMD EPYC Regular CPUs are first-generation-or-older Xeon Scalable or EPYC; Premium CPUs are second or third generation

ARM servers

NoNo No Arm plan in the Droplet plan guide

IPv6 included

YesYes No additional cost; IPv6 traffic counts toward transfer

What comes with it

Block storage

YesYes Volumes from 1 GiB to 16 TiB, per GiB-month

Object storage

YesYes Spaces, S3-compatible: $5/month including 250 GiB

Private network

YesYes VPC traffic is free in one datacenter; peering across datacenters $0.01/GiB

Cloud firewall

YesYes No additional cost

Load balancers

YesYes Regional and global load balancers, billed per node

DDoS protection included

YesYes Always on, no additional charge

Managed databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, MongoDB, Kafka, OpenSearch

Managed Kubernetes

YesYes DOKS, managed control plane

API

YesYes REST API v2

Terraform provider

YesYes DigitalOcean Terraform provider

Custom ISO

NoNo ISO images aren't supported; custom Linux images can be imported

Windows

Not offered Windows images aren't supported

Who you're renting from

Company

DigitalOcean, LLC

Owned by

Independent Publicly listed company; no parent named

Based in

United States Headquarters in Broomfield, Colorado

Founded

2012 Founded 2012; the Droplet was its first product

Support

Tickets 24/7 free; paid plans from $24/month Paid plans add faster responses and live chat

Certifications

SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 Type II, PCI DSS SAQ-A, CSA STAR Level 1 ISO 27001 is listed for the colocated datacenters, not DigitalOcean itself

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