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DigitalOcean Droplets are a scalable compute platform with add-on storage, security, and monitoring capabilities to easily run production applications.
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Powerful performance and simplified pricing
Industry leading price to performance
Predictable costs and billing
Optimized compute types
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Deploy your custom image, 1-Click App, or standard distribution
Skip the installation and configuration and get straight to deploying your code.
Choose a type and size
Choose from Standard Plans that offer a mix of memory and shared vCPUs, or Performance Plans that provide dedicated hyper-threads from best-in-class Intel processors.
Global availability
Deploy your Droplets and get a reliable connection and flat pricing across 8 data center regions.
Rapidly provision one to thousands of Droplets in seconds
Get the flexibility you need to get up and going quickly.
Select a Standard or Performance SSD Droplet and customize from there.
Deploy your Droplet with any of these available distributions
Save time by building on the OS that suits your needs.
Ubuntu
CentOS
Debian
Fedora
CoreOS
FreeBSD
Industry-leading price-performance
Cloud Spectator, an independent benchmarking firm, found that DigitalOcean delivered the best CPU performance per dollar when compared to AWS and Google. And thanks to our straightforward pricing, it’s easy to predict your monthly bill.
Get the resources you need without the billing surprises
SHARED CPU
Burstable performance from $6/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 $42/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.
Frequently asked questions
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Who is eligible for the free trial?
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What can I use the free trial for?
You can use the free trial for any infrastructure services provided by DigitalOcean, for example all Droplet plans, Spaces Object Storage, Block Storage, and Load Balancers.
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Are there any limitations with the free trial?
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