DigitalOcean Pricing Change — February 2026
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February 4, 2026 Price increase Cloud Infrastructure

DigitalOcean raises top-tier pricing to $40/month in February 2026

On February 4, 2026, DigitalOcean raised its top plan from $0 to $40/month.

Before & after

Before
Free
Range: Free – Free
Basic Droplet (512 MB)Basic Droplet (2 GB Premium Intel)CPU-Optimized (4 GB)General Purpose (8 GB)Memory-Optimized (16 GB)
After
$40
Range: Free – $40
FreeDroplet (Basic)Droplet (Standard)Droplet (Advanced)Enterprise

Current price (live)

Today's range
$4 – $200/month
Plans
5
Last verified
Mar 28, 2026
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Note: pricing has moved again since this change was first detected. The values above reflect our most recent re-extraction.

How we detected this

This change was flagged by our agent-driven pricing pipeline on February 4, 2026. We continuously re-extract each product's public pricing page and compare against our last verified snapshot; when we detect a real price movement, a second validation layer confirms the change before it's published here. See our methodology for more.

Source

digitalocean.com Official DigitalOcean pricing page

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