DigitalOcean App Platform vs Zeabur.
Prices checked
DigitalOcean App Platform and Zeabur sell nothing of the same shape; DigitalOcean App Platform starts at $5/mo and Zeabur at $5/mo, checked .
Where to start
DigitalOcean App Platformall 14 prices →It takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you.
Starts at
$5/mo
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Zeaburall 4 prices →It takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you.
Starts at
$5/mo
Dev
Side by side
| Fact | DigitalOcean App Platform | Zeabur |
|---|---|---|
| Kind of platform | App platform | App platform |
| Prices published | 14 | 4 |
| Entry price | $5/mo | $5/mo |
| Free tier | none listed | Free, sleeps when idle |
| Transfer per GB | 2¢ per GB | not published |
| One build minute | not published | not published |
| One extra member | not published | $24 per member a month |
| A GB of disk a month | not published | not published |
Every shape both sell
DigitalOcean App Platform and Zeabur sell nothing of the same shape today: no runtime with the same stated memory and no subscription at the same step of both ladders. The table above is the honest comparison, and the compare tool puts any two of their plans side by side with the caveats attached.
How we count
Both are the same kind of platform, so what a price buys is the same shape at each and the money is most of what separates them. What can be compared is the entry price, the free tier, what stops when the app is idle and what each one meters on top.
A shape is a runtime with the same stated memory at both, smallest first, or a subscription at the same step of both ladders. A seat and a gigabyte are never put in the same row.
Where one side of a row costs nothing, neither is marked as the cheaper: free is a limit rather than a price. What each platform meters on top is listed beside the prices and never folded into them, and a rate that is not published is not a rate of zero.
Frequently asked
- Is DigitalOcean App Platform cheaper than Zeabur?
- They sell no shape in common, so there is no size at which one is cheaper than the other. On the entry price it is $5/mo against $5/mo, read on 29 Sept 2026.
- What is the difference between DigitalOcean App Platform and Zeabur?
- DigitalOcean App Platform: 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. Zeabur: 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.
- Does DigitalOcean App Platform or Zeabur stop your app when nothing calls it?
- DigitalOcean App Platform: it lists no free tier. Zeabur: its free tier sleeps when idle.
- What does each one charge on top of the plan price?
- DigitalOcean App Platform: transfer 2¢ per GB, builds not published, members not published. Zeabur: transfer not published, builds not published, members $24 per member a month. A rate that is not published is not a rate of zero, and none of these is folded into the monthly figures above.
- How current are these prices?
- Both catalogues are read every day. DigitalOcean App Platform was last read 29 Sept 2026 and Zeabur 29 Sept 2026; the whole index was refreshed 29 Sept 2026. Prices exclude tax, and a tier that costs nothing is listed here and is the cheaper of two nowhere.