DigitalOcean (Basic Droplet, 1 GiB)
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
compute/digitalocean-2says dead, compute/digitalocean-droplet-1gb says paid-only - identity_kind:
compute/digitalocean-2says institution, compute/digitalocean-droplet-1gb says card
- Free allowance
- No free tier; the cheapest droplet is '512 MiB | 1 vCPU | 500 GiB | 10 GiB | $0.00595 | $4.00'
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- USD 6/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1,000 GiB a month of transfer
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
| Free tier | no free tier; the cheapest droplet is '512 MiB | 1 vCPU | 500 GiB | 10 GiB | $0.00595 | $4.00' unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Binding | volume-quota 1,000 GiB of transfer is the published ceiling, but the price is what fails here: 1 GiB costs USD 6.00. |
| Identity | card an account with a payment method, required before any droplet. |
| Egress | '1,000 GiB' of transfer on the 1 GiB droplet, from the plan table free allowance: 1,000 GiB |
| Retention | the disk persists while the droplet is paid; billed hourly, capped at the monthly price |
| Interface | ssh, rest root SSH, the DigitalOcean control panel, and the API |
| Tooling | any SSH client; doctl and API; Terraform provider |
| Composes with | the most expensive per GiB of the brand-name clouds; justified only by tooling and API maturity |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The 512 MiB droplet at USD 4.00 is the only sub-USD-5 row and it is too small for anything; 1 GiB is USD 6.00 and 2 GiB is USD 12.00. |
| Evidence note | documented the plan table's shape, allowed transfer, disk, hourly and monthly prices are quoted from the vendor's pricing page read. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets | quoted: '| 1 GiB | 1 vCPU | 1,000 GiB | 25 GiB | $0.00893 | $6.00 |' |
| 2026-10-24 | www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets | quoted: '| 512 MiB | 1 vCPU | 500 GiB | 10 GiB | $0.00595 | $4.00 |' |
More fields 16
| shape | {"vcpu": 1,"ram_gib": 1,"disk_gib": 25,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
|---|---|
| billing model | hourly, capped at the monthly price |
| term | hourly |
| m10h usd | 2.68 |
| m24h usd | 6.0 |
| price arithmetic | 24/7: USD 0.00893/h x 730 = USD 6.52, capped at USD 6.00/month. 10 h/day: USD 0.00893 x 300 = USD 2.68. |
| out of pocket usd | 6.0 |
| renewal usd | 6.0 |
| renewal note | hourly list rate, no contract |
| promo | no |
| over line | yes |
| ipv4 included | yes |
| ipv6 | yes |
| free tier kind | none |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "all","static_ip": true,"ipv6": true,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "none; it is a VM"} |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed