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- Free allowance
- A programme that granted recurring infrastructure credits to open-source projects was ended without a first-party announcement.
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampeddata is deleted after a period
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- checked 2026-10-22checked 2026-10-22 (live)
| Free tier | A programme that granted recurring infrastructure credits to open-source projects was ended without a first-party announcement. The letter quoted by recipients: 'DigitalOcean has decided to sunset the Open Source Credits Program. As part of this change, we are no longer accepting new credit applications or approving credit renewals, extensions, or additional credit requests.' Existing grants are honoured. A second outlet states: 'there is no official announcement on DigitalOcean's blog or social media handles. The program is being ended quietly.' unit none; metered on wall-clock; none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - retention-clamped (binding) not published source
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| Identity | institution not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | With this programme closed, the routes into DigitalOcean that remain are the paid plans and the one-time startup credit. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 4
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": null,"free_tier_kind": "none","shape": null} |
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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