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For a variety of ISV applications, DigitalOcean is consistently less expensive than AWS. Eliminate surprise fees and hard-to-estimate usage costs such as data egress or storage performance. Always know what you pay with monthly caps and flat pricing on DigitalOcean. Learn more about DigitalOcean Kubernetes or check out our DigitalOcean Kubernetes product documentation.
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Run your Kubernetes clusters on the powerful DOKS control plane and add the High Availability to the control plane for only $40/month. The DigitalOcean Container Registry is also free up to 500MiB, updates are free, and our autoscaler is free.
Get free bandwidth based on the nodes you use, starting at 2,000 GiB/node per month and scaling up. Bandwidth pooling lets you add all your nodes free bandwidth together to increase your free allowance. Plus, a $0.01/GiB overage keeps costs low if you go over. Only outgoing transfers are billed; internal transfers are free.
We charge only for underlying resources like:
Droplet nodes - start at $12/month per node
Block Storage - start at $10/month
Load Balancers - start at $12/month per node
Bandwidth - free, starting at 2,000GiB/node per month for Basic nodes
Cilium Hubble-enhanced Kubernetes security and observability—at no additional cost
Kubernetes automation like advanced scheduling and autoscaling help you get the most out of your infrastructure, hands free. Unused resources can be automatically deleted and you can have more pods automatically created to meet spiking demand.
No, DigitalOcean Kubernetes provides the control plane for free. This includes management for processes like etcd, kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, kube-scheduler, cloud-controller-manager, and other services.
You can add High Availability to the control plane for only $40/month. Learn how to create a HA DOKS cluster.
All pricing on this page is for a single node. The price goes up as you increase the number of nodes in your cluster.
For example, the price of one node that uses a general-purpose Droplet with 8 GiB of RAM is $63/month. If you increase the cluster size to 3 of those nodes, then the price would be $189/month. We recommend using a minimum of two nodes to prevent downtime during upgrades or maintenance.
Yes, when you need to write and access persistent data in a Kubernetes cluster, you can add DigitalOcean Volumes Block Storage to your cluster, which starts at $10/month. Learn how to add block storage to a Kubernetes cluster.
Yes, you can add DigitalOcean Load Balancer to your cluster for just $12/month. Learn how to add a Load Balancer to your Kubernetes cluster.
The bandwidth for Kubernetes cluster worker nodes is charged at the same rate as Droplet bandwidth pricing: You get free outbound data transfer, starting at 2,000GiB/month and can pool together the bandwidth from your Droplets even if they are internal facing to increase your bandwidth pool. Learn more about Droplets and bandwidth.
We recommend sizing your node to your workload and scheduling your workload to the appropriate size Droplet. How to choose the right Droplet for your purpose.
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DigitalOcean billing cycles are monthly. Typically, on the first day of each month we invoice and automatically charge your account's primary payment method for the previous month's usage. In some cases, we might charge if your usage exceeds a threshold. You can also login and self pay the balance at any time.
No. Your card is only charged at the end of the billing cycle or upon exceeding a usage threshold. Pre-authorization charge: When you add a card, we may send a preauthorization request to the issuing bank. This is to verify that the card being added has been issued by the bank and that they will authorize any charges in future. These temporary pre-authorizations are typically $1 but can vary in range and are immediately canceled by us. Depending on your bank, it might take a few days for the charge to clear from the card.
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Check out the docs to learn how to destroy Droplets, Kubernetes clusters, Managed Databases clusters (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Caching), Spaces, Volumes , Firewalls , and Load Balancers.
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Your card will be charged only after you have utilized the free credits. For example, if you received a $200 credit for 60 days, then that $200 credit is automatically applied to your account. If you spend $25 in that timeframe, then your card will not be charged. If you spend $300, then the $200 credit would be fully utilized and your card will be charged only $100. Since the credit is valid for 60 days, you won't be able to use any remaining credit after 60 days.
We charge you for the underlying compute on which the 1-Click Apps runs.
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