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DigitalOcean is a publicly listed cloud provider best known for Droplets, its VPS product, alongside managed databases, Kubernetes and an app platform.

www.digitalocean.compricingstatus

Virtual machines, billed by the second.

Taught a generation of developers what a server actually costs.

DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. trades on the New York Stock Exchange as DOCN. It started with a single product — the Droplet, a virtual private server — and has since added block storage, managed databases, managed Kubernetes, object storage, serverless functions and an application platform. It acquired Cloudways in 2022.

Droplets are billed per second against fixed plan rates, with a one-minute minimum charge. Backups are a paid add-on priced as a percentage of the Droplet cost, and block storage, load balancers and managed database clusters are metered separately, so a Droplet’s plan rate is not the whole bill. The tooling is documented in one place: a public REST API, the open-source doctl CLI, a Terraform provider, Ansible modules and a set of MCP servers. Each Droplet carries its own SLA of 99.99% monthly uptime, paid as a service credit against the resources affected.

Identity

Founded
20127
Reach
↑19,7942
Favorite
yes
Ownership
Publicly listed8
Status
Active
Wikidata
Q170521161

Regions and law

Regions
United States, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, India, Australia12
Headquarters
United States9

Other features

Domain registration
None5
Test domain
Included3
Collaboration
Team members4
Staging
Included4

Support

Published SLA
yes17

Automation

MCP
Official15
CLI
Official15
API
Public15
Infrastructure as code
Terraform, Ansible15

Bring your own

Domains
Who sells them

Sources

  1. 2026-09-09: Wikidata
    www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17052116
  2. 2026-09-07: Reach
    majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
  3. 2026-08-12: Test domain
    docs.digitalocean.com/docs/app-platform/reference/app-spec
  4. 2026-08-12: Staging, Collaboration
    www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform
  5. 2026-08-12: Domain registration
    docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/dns/
  6. 2026-08-01: Starting price, Entry price, Typical ceiling, Currencies, Billed, Pricing model, Minimum contract, Backups
    www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
  7. 2026-07-31: Founded
    www.digitalocean.com/about
  8. 2026-07-31: Ownership
    investors.digitalocean.com/overview/default.aspx
  9. 2026-07-31: Headquarters
    www.digitalocean.com/company
  10. 2026-08-02: Paid
    docs.digitalocean.com/platform/billing/
  11. 2026-08-02: Exit
    www.digitalocean.com/legal/terms-of-service-agreement
  12. 2026-07-31: Regions
    docs.digitalocean.com/platform/regional-availability/
  13. 2026-07-31: Managed databases
    www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases
  14. 2026-07-31: Persistent storage
    docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/details/features/
  15. 2026-07-31: API, CLI, MCP, Infrastructure as code
    docs.digitalocean.com/reference/
  16. 2026-07-31: Use cases, Audience
    www.digitalocean.com/
  17. 2026-08-29: Published SLA
    www.digitalocean.com/sla/cpu-droplets
  18. 2026-09-24: GPU
    www.digitalocean.com/products/gpu-droplets
  19. 2026-09-24: GPU
    docs.digitalocean.com/products/gradient-ai-platform/details/features/
  20. 2026-09-24: GPU
    docs.digitalocean.com/products/gradient-ai-platform/details/pricing/
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