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Current state
As of Aug 17, 2026DigitalOcean offers pay-as-you-go, product-based pricing across compute, storage, networking, database, AI/ML, and security services, with many products offering a $0/month starting tier. Pricing is modular per product (e.g., Droplets from $4/month, Kubernetes from $12/month, Managed Databases from $15/month), with usage-based billing for bandwidth, backups, and AI inference tokens.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Inference (AI/ML) | $0.05 per M tokens | Access leading AI models · Compare cost, speed, and capability · Deploy with a single API · No infrastructure management · Pay only for what you use |
| GPU Droplets | $1.91 per GPU/hour (multi-month commitment); on-demand from $0.76/GPU/hour | Run training and inference on AI/ML models · Process large data sets and complex neural networks · Serve HPC use cases |
| App Platform | $0 per month / monthly | Build, deploy and scale apps quickly · Fully managed, zero infrastructure management · Highly scalable |
| Droplets | $4 per month / monthly | Per-sec billing with 60 sec minimum or $0.01, whichever is higher · Deploy in seconds · Scale up on demand · Run any workload |
| Kubernetes | $12 per month / monthly | Free control plane · Free bandwidth allowance · Automate and optimize to peak performance |
| Functions | $0 per month / monthly | Pay for what you use · Scale automatically · 90,000 GiB-seconds/month free |
| Cloudways Managed Hosting | $11 per month / monthly | Optimized for Wordpress & PHP based apps · SSD stack with PHP 8 & Redis · Unlimited apps, Git & staging |
| Databases | $15 per month / monthly | Managed MongoDB, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Caching, Valkey, and OpenSearch · Worry-free setup, maintenance, and easy migration · Free daily backups, automated failover |
| Spaces (Object Storage) | $5 per month / monthly | S3-compatible object storage · Highly scalable · Built in CDN |
| Network File Storage | $0.15 per GiB/month (standard tier); $0.30 per GiB-month (high performance tier) / monthly | Starting from 50 GiB · Flat pricing across all supported regions |
| Volumes | $10 per month / monthly | Block storage · Highly available · Easily scale, resize, and move between droplets |
| Load Balancers | $12 per month / monthly | Improve availability, performance, and scalability · Let's Encrypt and HTTP/3 support · Compatible with Droplets and DigitalOcean Kubernetes · Global Load Balancers now available |
Free tier Free tiers exist for App Platform ($0/month), Functions ($0/month, 90,000 GiB-seconds/month included), Container Registry ($0/month, 1 repository and 500 MiB storage free), Support Plans ($0/month), Virtual Private Cloud ($0/month, unlimited VPCs), Uptime Monitoring ($0/month, one Uptime Check/month included), CSPM ($0/month). $5 free credit offered for new accounts (expires after 90 days per FAQ example).
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Current state
As of Sep 6, 2026This is DigitalOcean's API release notes page, logging changes to the public API, doctl CLI, and Terraform provider from 2014 through July 2026. Recent entries focus on doctl CLI releases (Secrets Manager, vector databases, advanced database engines) and a reversal of a previously announced breaking change to API token authorization scopes.
Deprecations
- Sunset 2017-04-26
PUT /v2/tags/$TAG_NAME tag rename endpoint
- Sunset 2015-11-09
API v1
→ API v2
- No date
Final (temporary) snapshots and the 'temporary' snapshot type value
- No date
--algorithm flag for load balancer sub-commands in doctl
- No date
floating-ip commands in doctl
→ reserved-ip commands
- Sunset 2022-09-09
Debian 9 base image
Latest entries
- Released doctl v1.164.0 adding Secrets Manager and Network File Storage access point commandsaddition
- Released doctl v1.163.0 adding a vector-databases command groupaddition
- Released doctl v1.162.0 adding support for advanced_pg and advanced_mysql database enginesaddition
- Previously announced breaking change to fix API incomplete resource authorization is no longer breakingchange
- Managed databases except MongoDB now support up to 2,000 trusted source IP addressesaddition
- Announced upcoming breaking change to fix API incomplete resource authorization issuebreaking
- Corrected a bug allowing non-snapshot image types to be listed via GET /v2/snapshotsfix
- Custom scopes for personal access tokens are now generally availableaddition
- Team members with the biller role can no longer access shared resource informationchange
- Tokens from /kubeconfig and /credentials endpoints now have custom read-only scopeschange
- Custom scopes for personal access tokens beta available via feature previewaddition
- Corrected a bug allowing non-snapshot image types to be retrieved or deleted via snapshot endpointsfix
Changes
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