- Free allowance
- This includes a range of perks to get you started, including 12 months of DigitalOcean credits ...
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedapproval through a DigitalOcean Startups partner, with the award level set by a programme manager
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | This includes a range of perks to get you started, including 12 months of DigitalOcean credits ... Participants generally are entitled to a $10,000 monthly limit (and charges apply for any use in a month exceeding this amount). unit mixed; metered on downloaded-bytes |
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| Price | USD 10,000 a month of credit |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) approval through a DigitalOcean Startups partner, with the award level set by a programme manager source
- volume-quota $10,000 a month at $0.01 per GiB is 976 TiB a month source
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| Binding | write-gated the application is the constraint. The volume is not: the monthly cap is 976 TiB at this egress price, which is three orders of magnitude above 1 TiB. |
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| Identity | institution Must have raised $10m or less; credits are awarded 'through approved DigitalOcean Startups partners' and the amount is set at onboarding. |
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| Egress | $10,000 a month at $0.01 per GiB is 976 TiB a month for 12 months, subject to application; ingress: udp free allowance: $10,000 a month at $0.01 per GiB is 976 TiB a month for 12 months, subject to application |
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| Interface | cli, rest doctl and the DigitalOcean REST API |
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| Tooling | doctl and the API, as with any DigitalOcean account |
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| Composes with | if granted, 12 months of metered egress at the cheapest rate; without a company it is unreachable |
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| Reliability | charges apply for any month above the cap, and the award is tied to continued programme membership |
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| Notes | Arithmetic: $10,000 a month over $0.01 a GiB is 1,000,000 GiB = 976.6 TiB a month, and the programme runs 12 months. The cap is not the award: the page says the amount is set in an onboarding email and that the tier depends on the partner. It is the successor to Hatch and the only DigitalOcean route longer than 60 days. The self-serve $200 trial (egress/digitalocean) needs no company and lasts 60 days. |
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| Evidence note | documented the page gives the monthly cap and the eligibility but not a fixed total award, so the 12-month total is unknown rather than the stated cap times twelve |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 976 TiB / month
- price USD 10000 credit
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