# DigitalOcean pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $6/mo (Basic Droplet — 1 GB). Among the 6 vps hosting we track it is #5 cheapest of 6; median entry $5/mo.
**Domain:** digitalocean.com
**Free tier:** No
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR No
**Integrations:** Terraform, Kubernetes (DOKS), Docker, WordPress, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Node.js, LAMP, Datadog, REST API, CLI
**Best for:** SMB SaaS builders; developer-focused teams; HIPAA-eligible workloads on a budget
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Basic Droplet — 1 GB | $6 | — | flat | 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD, 1 TB transfer. Shared CPU. Billed per-second with 60-second minimum and monthly cap (effective 2026-01-01). No annual discount published. | digitalocean.com |
| Basic Droplet — 2 GB | $12 | — | flat | 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD, 2 TB transfer. Shared CPU. | digitalocean.com |
| Basic Droplet — 4 GB | $24 | — | flat | 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD, 4 TB transfer. Shared CPU. | digitalocean.com |
| Basic Droplet — 8 GB | $48 | — | flat | 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD, 5 TB transfer. Shared CPU. | digitalocean.com |
| CPU-Optimized Droplet — 4 GB | $42 | — | flat | 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, dedicated CPU. Entry CPU-optimized tier. | digitalocean.com |
| General Purpose Droplet — 8 GB | $63 | — | flat | 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM. Entry General Purpose dedicated CPU tier. | digitalocean.com |

**Key features:** SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 Type II, HIPAA-eligible workloads, PCI-DSS SAQ-A, ISO 27001 (data centers), Global PRP, and CSA STAR Level 1; 99.99% uptime SLA on Droplets with per-second billing (60s minimum); DORA-eligible workloads; One-click app marketplace; GPU Droplets for AI/ML.

**Plan limits:** Droplets from $4/month (Basic) or $6/month (1 vCPU/1 GB RAM); Outbound bandwidth from 500 GiB/month included; overages at $0.01/GiB; Managed databases from $15/month; backups at 20% (weekly) or 30% (daily) of Droplet cost; New users receive promotional credits (amount varies by promotion).

## Cheaper vps hosting alternatives

- [Kamatera](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/vps-hosting/kamatera/) — from $4/mo
- [OVHcloud](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/vps-hosting/ovhcloud/) — from $4.54/mo
- [Akamai Cloud (Linode)](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/vps-hosting/akamai-cloud/) — from $5/mo
- [Vultr](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/vps-hosting/vultr/) — from $5/mo

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-15
Provenance: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (official pricing page, fetched 2026-06-15)
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/vps-hosting/digitalocean/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, DigitalOcean's entry plan was $6/mo as of 2026-06-15 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/vps-hosting/digitalocean/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl