DigitalOcean Droplets pricing
Cloud VPS · checked 2026-10-25 · official pricing page
Basic Droplets from $4/mo (512 MiB, 500 GiB transfer). $6 gets 1 GiB RAM and 1,000 GiB. Extra outbound transfer $0.01/GiB, pooled across your Droplets.
Key prices
- Basic Regular: 512 MiB/1 vCPU/10 GiB/500 GiB transfer $4; 1 GiB/1 vCPU/25 GiB/1,000 GiB $6; 2 GiB/1 vCPU/50 GiB/2,000 GiB $12; 2 GiB/2 vCPU/60 GiB/3,000 GiB $18; 4 GiB/2 vCPU/80 GiB/4,000 GiB $24 per month
- Additional outbound transfer $0.01/GiB; inbound free; allowance pooled across all Droplets on a team; same price in every region
- Per-second billing (60 s minimum) since 2026-01-01; Bundled plans are capped at the monthly price
- Public IPv4 included on Bundled plans
- Backups: 20% (weekly) or 30% (daily) of Droplet cost, or usage-based from $0.01/GiB; snapshots $0.06/GB per month
Good
- Prices in USD, no VAT on the list price
- Cheapest entry server ($4)
- Same price in every region
Watch out
- Less RAM per dollar than Hetzner EU
- You manage the server
Estimated monthly cost
| Workload | 10,000 visits | 100,000 visits | 1,000,000 visits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Static site (Astro, Hugo, SPA) | $6.00 | $6.00 | $9.97 |
| Next.js / Nuxt / SvelteKit with SSR | $6.00 | $6.00 | $9.97 |
| Node API (Express, Fastify) | $6.00 | $6.00 | $9.97 |
Basic Droplet 1 GiB RAM / 1 vCPU, $6/mo with 1,000 GiB transfer, then $0.01/GiB.
Source: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (checked 2026-10-25).
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