- Free allowance
- $200 in free credit with a 60-day validity period, reported by two third-party pages; DigitalOcean's own pricing and homepage did not carry the offer when read
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota$200 of egress at $0.01 per GiB is 19.5 TiB, and the credit expires at 60 days
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-07checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-07
| Free tier | $200 in free credit with a 60-day validity period, reported by two third-party pages; DigitalOcean's own pricing and homepage did not carry the offer when read unit mixed; metered on downloaded-bytes |
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| Price | USD 200 of credit |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) $200 of egress at $0.01 per GiB is 19.5 TiB, and the credit expires at 60 days source
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| Binding | volume-quota the 60-day expiry binds, not the bandwidth: $200 at $0.01 a GiB is 20,000 GiB, and at 1 TiB a month only 2 TiB of it is used before the credit dies. The credit is nine times larger than the 60 days can spend at a user's volume. |
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| Identity | card a credit card or PayPal to activate the credit, with a small verification hold; reported by the two third-party pages that carry the offer's terms |
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| Egress | $200 of credit at $0.01 per GiB is 19.5 TiB, or 9.8 TiB a month across the 60-day credit window, plus 500 GiB a month included per droplet; ingress: udp free allowance: $200 of credit at $0.01 per GiB is 19.5 TiB, or 9.8 TiB a month across the 60-day credit window, plus 500 GiB a month included per droplet |
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| Interface | cli, rest doctl and the DigitalOcean REST API |
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| Tooling | wg-quick on the droplet; doctl or the API for the firewall |
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| Composes with | the strongest credit: one droplet, 19.5 TiB of metered egress, and the 60-day clock as the only real limit |
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| Reliability | unused credit expires at 60 days and is not refundable or transferable |
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| Notes | Arithmetic: $200 over $0.01 a GiB is 20,000 GiB = 19.53 TiB in total. Spread across 60 days that is 9.77 TiB a month, which clears the 1 TiB a month test by a factor of 9.8. This is the best dollars-to-bytes ratio of the egress providers compared, and it is the only one where the bandwidth price is two orders of magnitude below the hyperscalers. The 500 GiB a month of included transfer on the cheapest droplet is 0.49 TiB alone and short of the test; DigitalOcean Startups is egress/digitalocean-startups. Note the egress price is documented and the credit is reported, which makes the whole record reported under the weakest-field rule. |
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| Evidence note | reported the $200 and 60 days are third-party; DigitalOcean's pricing page and homepage carry no such offer today and the referral page states only that referrals earn credits. A screenshot of the signed-in billing page, or a first-party campaign page, would raise this to documented |
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| Parsed numbers | - has-free-tier 1
- volume-quota 19.5 TiB
- price USD 200 credit
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