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DigitalOcean for self-hosting: plans and what fits on them

DigitalOcean is based in United States. Plan prices below were read from its own pricing page on 2026-09-12 and are what every calculation on this site uses.

Plans

PlanvCPUMemoryDiskTransferPer monthWhat fits on it
Basic 512 MiB 1 0.5 GB 10 GB 500 GB $4.00 Gatus, Vaultwarden
Basic 1 GiB 1 1 GB 25 GB 1000 GB $6.00 Uptime Kuma, Vikunja
Basic 2 GiB 1 2 GB 50 GB 2.0 TB $12.00 BookStack, FreeScout, LimeSurvey, OpnForm, Passbolt, Umami, n8n
Basic 2 GiB / 2 vCPU 2 2 GB 60 GB 2.9 TB $18.00 —
Basic 4 GiB 2 4 GB 80 GB 3.9 TB $24.00 AFFiNE, Activepieces, Docmost, Formbricks, Keycloak, Lightdash, Matomo, Metabase, Outline, Plausible Analytics, Windmill, Zitadel, authentik
Basic 8 GiB 4 8 GB 160 GB 4.9 TB $48.00 Apache Superset, Chatwoot, OpenProject, Plane, Zammad
Basic 16 GiB 8 16 GB 320 GB 5.9 TB $96.00 PostHog
Memory-Optimized 32 GiB 4 32 GB 100 GB 5.9 TB $168 —
Memory-Optimized 64 GiB 8 64 GB 200 GB 6.8 TB $336 —

The last column lists tools in our dataset that fit at a team of 10 people, smallest plan first, so each tool appears once.

Where it helps and where it hurts

StrengthsWeaknesses
  • Large managed-service catalogue
  • Strong documentation for self-hosters
  • Predictable monthly caps
  • Roughly 2-3x the price of European budget hosts for the same RAM
  • Bandwidth allowances lower than Hetzner

Per-second billing since 1 January 2026, with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01. Monthly caps still apply.

Pricing straight from DigitalOcean

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Open DigitalOcean

The DigitalOcean link above is a referral link: if you sign up through it and pay your first $25, we receive $25 of DigitalOcean account credit. That never changes the computed costs, which server is chosen, or the conclusion of this page. The sizing model and every price source are published in full.

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