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Spec sheet
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- 2012Read 4 Oct 2026 · digitalocean.com
Plans and prices
Basic $12 a month billed monthly Variable workloads · Free inbound data transfer · Free outbound data transfer starting at 2,000 GiB/month Read 22 Sep 2026 · digitalocean.com
CPU-optimized $42 a month billed monthly Dedicated CPU · 2 GiB RAM per CPU · Lower cost per dedicated vCPU Read 22 Sep 2026 · digitalocean.com
General purpose $63 a month billed monthly Dedicated CPU · 4 GiB RAM per CPU · Designed for a wide range of workloads Read 22 Sep 2026 · digitalocean.com
Memory-optimized $84 a month billed monthly Dedicated CPU · 8 GiB RAM per CPU · For resource-intensive applications Read 22 Sep 2026 · digitalocean.com
Storage-optimized $163 a month billed monthly Dedicated CPU · Guaranteed NVMe · Up to 6.87 TiB of local storage Read 22 Sep 2026 · digitalocean.com
v5 $0.03 a month Billed per second at an hourly rate Shared or dedicated CPU configurations · Configure vCPU, memory, and storage independently · Billed at an hourly rate Read 22 Sep 2026 · digitalocean.com
NVIDIA H100 GPU $4.41 a month On-demand hourly pricing 80 GB GPU RAM · 240 GiB Droplet RAM · 20 Droplet vCPUs · 5 TiB NVMe scratch disk Read 22 Sep 2026 · digitalocean.com
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