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DigitalOcean Pricing

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At a glance

Developer-centric cloud hosting platform with predictable per-second billing and generous included bandwidth pools. Basic Droplet virtual machines start at $4.00/mo (512MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 500GB bandwidth) scaling to dedicated CPU/Memory instances. App Platform PaaS offers $0 for 3 static sites and dynamic services from $5.00/mo. Managed Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB) start at $15.00/mo with free daily backups. Managed Kubernetes (DOKS) has a $0 control plane fee. Spaces S3-compatible object storage is $5.00/mo for 250GB.

Free & cheaper DevOps & Deployment

same category, free plan or open-source license

Ciliumopen sourceFree and 100% open source under the Apache-2.0 license (with dual GPL-2.0/BSD-2-Clause BPF datapath templates) as a CNCF Graduated project. Cilium has no software licensing fees for self-hosted or cloud Kubernetes deployments (including GKE Dataplane V2 and Azure CNI Powered by Cilium); organizations pay only for their compute infrastructure. For mission-critical enterprise environments, Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium (by Cisco) provides quote-based annual subscriptions (per-node/environment) with 24/7 SLA support, hardened LTS builds, Customer Testing Environments (CuTEs), enterprise BGP/EVPN, and advanced multi-cluster security and observability retention.OrbStackFree for personal and non-commercial use, educational studies, and open-source development. Commercial and business use (or individuals generating >$10,000/year) requires a paid Pro license at $8/user/month billed annually ($96/year) or $10/month monthly, covering up to 5 devices per user with priority support and a 30-day trial. Enterprise plans provide custom volume pricing, centralized billing, MDM/SSO directory integration, and 99.9% uptime SLAs.Rayopen sourceRay is a free and open-source distributed computing framework governed by the PyTorch Foundation under the Apache 2.0 license. It can be self-hosted on any cloud or on-prem cluster with zero licensing costs, while managed execution is available via cloud providers like Anyscale.Actopen sourceFree and 100% open source under the MIT license. Act has no licensing costs or subscription tiers; it runs locally via Docker and saves billable GitHub Actions runner minutes.
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FAQ

How much does DigitalOcean cost?

Developer-centric cloud hosting platform with predictable per-second billing and generous included bandwidth pools. Basic Droplet virtual machines start at $4.00/mo (512MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 500GB bandwidth) scaling to dedicated CPU/Memory instances. App Platform PaaS offers $0 for 3 static sites and dynamic services from $5.00/mo. Managed Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB) start at $15.00/mo with free daily backups. Managed Kubernetes (DOKS) has a $0 control plane fee. Spaces S3-compatible object storage is $5.00/mo for 250GB. Paid pricing starts at $4.00/mo.

Does DigitalOcean have a free plan?

No — DigitalOcean has no free plan; it is a paid tool.

What are free or cheaper DigitalOcean alternatives?

Cilium, OrbStack, Ray are in the same category with a free plan or open-source license.

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