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DigitalOcean Droplets are Linux virtual machines for websites, APIs, databases, development environments, and other workloads. Basic plans bundle vCPU, memory, SSD storage, and outbound transfer with hourly billing and a monthly cap; v5 plans price configured resources by usage.

Data status: verified · Checked: 2026-10-16

Good fit if

Basic entry configuration: 1 vCPU, 512 MiB RAM, 10 GiB SSD, and 500 GiB transfer for $4/month or $0.00595/hour.

May not fit if

The entry 512 MiB configuration is a low-resource starting point, not a general-purpose production recommendation; select resources for the workload.

Price

4 USD

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Features and benefits

  • Basic entry configuration: 1 vCPU, 512 MiB RAM, 10 GiB SSD, and 500 GiB transfer for $4/month or $0.00595/hour.
  • Billing is per second with a 60-second minimum; bundled plans have a monthly cap.
  • Linux distributions include Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, and CoreOS; public IPv4 is included for bundled plans.
  • Documented datacenter locations include North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, including NYC, Toronto, Amsterdam, London, Frankfurt, Bangalore, Singapore, and Sydney.

Limitations

  • The entry 512 MiB configuration is a low-resource starting point, not a general-purpose production recommendation; select resources for the workload.
  • Backups, snapshots, volumes, managed databases, and other add-ons can increase the bill. Backups start at $0.01/GiB-month for usage-based plans; snapshots are $0.06/GB-month.
  • Outbound transfer is plan-limited; additional product usage and applicable taxes may be billed separately. Core Droplets are unmanaged, so customers operate the OS and applications.

Pricing

Basic Droplet 512 MiB

4 USD · monthly

1 vCPU, 512 MiB RAM, 10 GiB SSD, 500 GiB transfer. Published rate is $0.00595/hour with a $4 monthly cap; per-second billing has a 60-second minimum. Excludes optional services and applicable taxes. This is the entry configuration, not a general-purpose production sizing recommendation.

Pricing source

Sources

  • https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets · 2026-10-16: Basic plan price and configuration, hourly and per-second billing, included transfer, backup and snapshot prices, supported operating systems, unmanaged service model, datacenter locations, IPv4 billing conditions