Home / DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean (2)
www.nodeseek.com/post-774667-1Dev environmentcompute/digitalocean-2JSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
Sibling records disagree:
- Free allowance
- USD 200 of platform credit through the GitHub Student Developer Pack, withdrawn: "DigitalOcean is leaving the Student Developer Pack, and their student credit offer for $200 of platform credit will no longer be available after July 31, 2026."
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampedthe credit expired on a fixed date and the balance did not roll over, so the USD 200 was a clock that ran out, and the provider has left the programme that issued it.
- Evidence
- reported7 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- checked 2026-11-03checked 2026-11-03 (live)
| Free tier | USD 200 of platform credit through the GitHub Student Developer Pack, withdrawn: "DigitalOcean is leaving the Student Developer Pack, and their student credit offer for $200 of platform credit will no longer be available after July 31, 2026." unit credits; metered on wall-clock; one-time-credit |
|---|
| Price | none stated |
|---|
| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) the credit expired on a fixed date and the balance did not roll over, so the USD 200 was a clock that ran out, and the provider has left the programme that issued it. source
|
|---|
| Identity | institution the gate was student verification, and the offer is now dead: the GitHub Student Developer Pack changelog dates the withdrawal to July 2026 and addresses "Verified students who have already redeemed the DigitalOcean offer", so the identity cost was the pack's student check rather than a card. The record does not state which documents GitHub Education requires, and no card, phone, hold, debit or prepaid statement appears. The credit expired on 2026-07-31, so nothing is reachable by this route now |
|---|
| Egress | not stated |
|---|
| Retention | the credit expired on a fixed date and the balance did not roll over, so the USD 200 was a clock that ran out, and the provider has left the programme that issued it. |
|---|
| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
|---|
| Tooling | not stated |
|---|
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
|---|
| Notes | Clarified 2026-10-22: this record is the withdrawn student credit and stays dead. DigitalOcean still sells Droplets from USD 4.00 a month for 512 MiB / 1 vCPU / 10 GiB / 500 GiB transfer, and that paid floor is recorded in digitalocean and in the micro floor table rather than here. |
|---|
| Parsed numbers | |
|---|
Evidence 7
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|
| 2026-10-22 | raw.githubusercontent.com/github-education-resources/Student | quoted from the GitHub Student Developer Pack changelog, entry dated July 7, 2026: 'DigitalOcean is leaving the Student Developer Pack, and their student credit offer for $200 of platform credit will no longer be available after July 31, 2026. Verified students who have already redeemed the DigitalOcean offer can continue using any existing credits until August 1, 2026. After that date, any remaining credits will expire.' Supports the withdrawal, the USD 200 figure and a fixed expiry with no carry-over; the changelog puts the last usable day at 2026-07-31 with expiry after 2026-08-01, which agrees with the stored 2026-07-31 date to the day boundary |
| 2026-10-30 | raw.githubusercontent.com/github-education-resources/Student | the Student Developer Pack offer was USD 200 of DigitalOcean platform credit, withdrawn after 2026-07-31 |
| 2026-10-30 | www.nodeseek.com/post-774667-1 | the forum post still carries the provider notice: DigitalOcean leaves the GitHub Student Developer Pack and all credit issued through it expires on 2026-07-31 |
| 2026-10-30 | www.digitalocean.com/github-students | the former student-offer URL serves the general product overview and names no student credit offer |
| 2026-11-03 | www.nodeseek.com/post-774667-1 | the post carries the provider notice: DigitalOcean leaves the GitHub Student Developer Pack and all credit issued through it expires on 2026-07-31 |
| 2026-11-03 | www.nodeseek.com/post-774667-1 | the post carries the provider notice: after 2026-07-31 any unused credit balance expires and cannot be carried over or transferred; read through a rendered-page provider pin, since the unpinned read lands on an IPv6 notice page |
| 2026-11-03 | raw.githubusercontent.com/github-education-resources/Student | the student offer was USD 200 of platform credit, withdrawn after 2026-07-31 |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "student-pack","free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
|---|
Unknown values 6
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field