DigitalOcean App Platform pricing.
Prices checked
DigitalOcean App Platform publishes 14 prices, from $5 a month, checked .
Every price DigitalOcean App Platform publishes
- 1
apps-s-1vcpu-0.5gb · 1 shared vCPU
Sized instance1 vCPU · 512 MB RAM · always on
$5/mo - 2
apps-s-1vcpu-1gb-fixed · 1 shared vCPU
Sized instance1 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · always on
$10/mo - 3
apps-s-1vcpu-1gb · 1 shared vCPU
Sized instance1 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · always on
price from , a change is being checked$12/mo - 4
apps-s-1vcpu-2gb · 1 shared vCPU
Sized instance1 vCPU · 2 GB RAM · always on
$25/mo - 5
apps-d-1vcpu-0.5gb · 1 dedicated vCPU
Sized instance1 vCPU · 512 MB RAM · always on
$29/mo - 6
apps-d-1vcpu-1gb · 1 dedicated vCPU
Sized instance1 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · always on
$34/mo - 7
apps-d-1vcpu-2gb · 1 dedicated vCPU
Sized instance1 vCPU · 2 GB RAM · always on
$39/mo - 8
apps-d-1vcpu-4gb · 1 dedicated vCPU
Sized instance1 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · always on
$49/mo - 9
apps-s-2vcpu-4gb · 2 shared vCPU
Sized instance2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · always on
$50/mo - 10
apps-d-2vcpu-4gb · 2 dedicated vCPU
Sized instance2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · always on
$78/mo - 11
apps-d-2vcpu-8gb · 2 dedicated vCPU
Sized instance2 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · always on
$98/mo - 12
apps-d-4vcpu-8gb · 4 dedicated vCPU
Sized instance4 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · always on
$156/mo - 13
apps-d-4vcpu-16gb · 4 dedicated vCPU
Sized instance4 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · always on
$196/mo - 14
apps-d-8vcpu-32gb · 8 dedicated vCPU
Sized instance8 vCPU · 32 GB RAM · always on
$392/mo
Where to start
Kind
App platform
it takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you
Stops when idle
No
every plan we read stays on
Free tier
No
the cheapest step is a paid one
Smallest billing unit
Hour
billed per hour, on every plan
Where DigitalOcean App Platform ranks
What DigitalOcean App Platform charges on top
What you pay past a plan's allowances. A rate that is not published is not a rate of zero.
Outbound transfer
$0.02 per GB
every gigabyte you serve past the allowance
Build minute
not published
one minute of CI past the allowance
Extra member
not published
one more person on the account
Persistent disk
not published
a gigabyte you keep between deploys
Transfer allowances pool across the app's components. Build minutes and seats are not charged.
Similar platforms
Other platforms at their cheapest instance with 1 GB of memory or more, cheapest first. Each percentage is against DigitalOcean App Platform's, $10 a month.
Frequently asked
- What kind of platform is DigitalOcean App Platform?
- App platform: it takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you. You push a repository or an image and the platform builds it, runs it and keeps it running. There is no operating system to look after and no root, which is the point: the container is replaced rather than repaired. What you size is memory and a share of a processor.
- What is the cheapest DigitalOcean App Platform plan?
- apps-s-1vcpu-0.5gb · 1 shared vCPU · 512 MB at $5/mo, which is 1 vCPU · 512 MB RAM, and it stays on. Checked 1 Nov 2026.
- Does DigitalOcean App Platform stop your app when nothing calls it?
- No. DigitalOcean App Platform states that all 14 of the plans we read stay on, so nothing here waits for a cold start.
- What does DigitalOcean App Platform charge on top of the plan price?
- outbound transfer, $0.02 per GB; build minute, not published; extra member, not published; persistent disk, not published. Transfer allowances pool across the app's components. Build minutes and seats are not charged.
- How current are these DigitalOcean App Platform prices?
- We read them from DigitalOcean App Platform's own pricing page every 3 days; the reading on this page is from 1 Nov 2026. Tax is extra.
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