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Choose from Standard or CPU Optimized Droplets and customize from there. Get the flexibility you need to get started quickly.
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Save up to 55% compared to other cloud providers
$40
PER MONTH
$62.22
PER MONTH
$47.24
PER MONTH
DigitalOcean 2VCPU High-CPU Droplet
4GB RAM
25GB SSD
INCLUDED
INCLUDED
AWS 2 vCPU c5.large instance
4GB RAM
25GB SSD
INCLUDED
ADDED ($2.5/mo)
55%
MORE
Google 2 vCPU High-CPU-2 instance
4GB RAM
25GB SSD
ADDED ($6.76/mo)
ADDED ($3.85/mo)
18%
MORE
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SHARED CPU
Burstable performance from $5/mo
Basic-Regular
The most basic Droplet – a burstable portion of vCPU – along with a configurable amount of memory.
DESIGNED FOR
Simple or bursty applications such as low traffic web servers, blogs, discussion forums, CMS, small databases, dev/test servers, microservices, and repository hosting.
Run your apps on modern hardware that delivers the fast performance your customers demand.
DESIGNED FOR
Premium Droplets are ideal for in-memory databases and server-side caches for web apps, workloads that require a large number of transactions.
Basic-Premium
Intel Premium Droplets have second generation Xeon Scalable processors (2.5 GHz, 3.9 GHz turbo and feature memory frequency of 2933 MHz.
AMD Premium Droplets have second generation EPYC processors (2.0 GHz, 3.35 GHz turbo) and feature memory frequency of 3200 MHz.
Premium Intel
with NVMe SSD
Premium AMD
with NVMe SSD
Regular Intel
with SSD
Regular Intel Droplets have a mix of first generation Xeon Scalable processors and older Intel Xeon processors.
DEDICATED CPU
Consistent, fast performance from $40/mo
General Purpose
The most popular modern Droplet, with 100% dedicated vCPU, along with a balanced 4GB of memory for each vCPU.
DESIGNED FOR
Critical applications such as high-traffic web servers, e-commerce sites, medium-sized databases, and enterprise Software as a Service (SaaS).
CPU-Optimized
The CPU-centric Droplet, with 100% dedicated vCPU, along with a more modest 2GB of memory for each vCPU.
DESIGNED FOR
CPU-intensive applications like CI/CD, video encoding, machine learning, ad serving, batch processing, and active front-end web servers.
Memory-Optimized
The maximum memory Droplet, with 100% dedicated vCPU, along with a generous 8GB of memory for each vCPU.
DESIGNED FOR
RAM-intensive applications like high-performance databases, in-memory caches, and real-time big data processing.
Storage-Optimized
Droplets with large amounts of NVMe SSD storage and memory, along with 100% dedicated vCPU.
DESIGNED FOR
Extra large NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, Elasticsearch, TimeScaleDB), monitoring software e.g. Prometheus, and other data warehouses.
All Droplet plans are billed hourly up to a monthly cap with flat pricing across all data centers. Select the right resources for your workload.