DigitalOcean
Cloud platform purpose-built for artificial intelligence workloads, with integrated inference capabilities and infrastructure services.
- Also known as
- digitalocean
Available worldwide
What is DigitalOcean?
An AI-focused cloud provider offering compute, storage, managed services, and a unified inference platform supporting multiple open-source and frontier AI models.
DigitalOcean pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Hybrid pricing model starting from free tier with Droplets from $4/month, managed databases from $15/month, AI inference from $0.05/million tokens
App Platform
FreeFully-managed application deployment platform
- App deployment
- Auto-scaling
- Managed infrastructure
Droplets
Virtual machines with per-second billing
- Virtual machines
- Mission-critical apps
- Low-traffic sites
GPU Droplets
Scalable GPU-accelerated compute for AI/ML
- AI/ML training
- Inference
- High-performance computing
Kubernetes
Managed Kubernetes cluster with free control plane
- bandwidth
- free
- control_plane
- free
- Managed Kubernetes
- Auto-scaling
- Network policies
Functions
FreeServerless computing with pay-as-you-go pricing
- Serverless functions
- Auto-scaling
- HTTPS/TLS by default
Managed Databases
Fully-managed database engines with automated maintenance
- failover
- automatic
- daily_backups
- free
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Kafka
- Valkey
- OpenSearch
- Automated failover
Spaces (Object Storage)
S3-compatible object storage with CDN
- S3-compatible
- Built-in CDN
- Highly scalable
Volumes (Block Storage)
Persistent block storage volumes
- Block storage
- High availability
- Resizable
AI/ML Inference
Serverless AI model inference with 70+ models
- 70+ models
- Inference routing
- No infrastructure management
Cloudways Managed Hosting
Managed hosting for WordPress and PHP applications
- WordPress
- PHP 8
- Redis
- Unlimited apps
- Git integration
Add-ons
- Backups (Weekly)20% per droplet_cost
- Backups (Daily)30% per droplet_cost
- Network File Storage$0.15 per GiB
- VPC NAT Gateway$40/mo
What DigitalOcean does
The capabilities that matter for cloud infrastructure, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Provider tier
- Hyperscaler
- Regions / global footprint
- Multiple global regions including US, Europe (Frankfurt), Canada, Asia (Bangalor
- Bare-metal servers
- ✓
- GPU / accelerated compute
- ✓
- Spot / preemptible pricing
- -
- Object storage
- ✓
- Block storage
- ✓
- Managed Kubernetes
- ✓
- Managed databases
- ✓
- Serverless / FaaS
- ✓
- VPC / private networking
- ✓
- Free / low egress
- -
- Data-residency / sovereign options
- -
- Partner marketplace
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (39)
Independently observed- Grafana•
- Prometheus•
- Better Uptime
- OpenAI•
- Telegram⇄
- WhatsApp⇄
- Signal⇄
- Discord⇄
- GitLab
- Apache Kafka
- MySQL
- Cloudron
- Docker
- WordPress
- GitLab Enterprise Edition
- Supabase
- RabbitMQ
- n8n
- cPanel & WHM
- Plesk
- 3CX
- Jitsi
- Appwrite
- OpenClaw
- Hermes Agent
- Codex Universal
- Grok Build
- Coolify
- Easypanel
- Anaconda
- SnapShooter
- Simple Observability
- IVP.ai | Deskless
- WooCommerce
- OpenLiteSpeed
- Let's Encrypt
- Slack
- Kubernetes•
- Ollama•
DigitalOcean FAQ
Common questions about DigitalOcean, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is DigitalOcean?
An AI-focused cloud provider offering compute, storage, managed services, and a unified inference platform supporting multiple open-source and frontier AI models. It is indexed under Cloud Infrastructure.
Source: https://www.digitalocean.com
Is DigitalOcean free?
DigitalOcean offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.05. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does DigitalOcean support?
DigitalOcean supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://www.digitalocean.com
Can DigitalOcean be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for DigitalOcean, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
Source: https://www.digitalocean.com
What does DigitalOcean integrate with?
We have confirmed 38 integrations for DigitalOcean, including Docker, WordPress, GitLab Enterprise Edition, Supabase, RabbitMQ, n8n, cPanel & WHM and Plesk, plus 30 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.digitalocean.com
What security certifications does DigitalOcean have?
We have independently confirmed GDPR for DigitalOcean. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as DigitalOcean not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
DigitalOcean alternatives
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Compare DigitalOcean
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| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 41 | 0.05 | 2.0 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 10 | 0.12 | 0.0 | - |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Tier: hyperscaler · Bare metal: Yes · Marketplace: Yes · Block storage: Yes · Gpu instances: Yes · Regions count: Multiple global regions including US, Europe (Frankfurt), Canada, Asia (Bangalor | mediumsource · 2026-09-04 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 25 | mediumsource · 2026-09-04 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-04 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Security
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