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DigitalOcean Kubernetes pricing

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DigitalOcean Kubernetes costs from $12/unit/mo on its cheapest paid plan; 7 plans in all, as listed on digitalocean.com — prices checked 22 Sep 2026.

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DigitalOcean Kubernetes pricing at a glance

Plans Paid No free plan — trial or paid only. Prices checked 22 Sep 2026.
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DigitalOcean Kubernetes plans & pricing

PlanPriceKey limits
Basic$12/unit/mo
  • Variable workloads
  • Free inbound data transfer
  • Free outbound data transfer starting at 2,000 GiB/month
CPU-optimized$42/unit/mo
  • Dedicated CPU
  • 2 GiB RAM per CPU
  • Lower cost per dedicated vCPU
General purpose$63/unit/mo
  • Dedicated CPU
  • 4 GiB RAM per CPU
  • Designed for a wide range of workloads
Memory-optimized$84/unit/mo
  • Dedicated CPU
  • 8 GiB RAM per CPU
  • For resource-intensive applications
Storage-optimized$163/unit/mo
  • Dedicated CPU
  • Guaranteed NVMe
  • Up to 6.87 TiB of local storage
v5$0.03/unit usage-based Billed per second at an hourly rate
  • Shared or dedicated CPU configurations
  • Configure vCPU, memory, and storage independently
  • Billed at an hourly rate
NVIDIA H100 GPU$4.41/unit usage-based On-demand hourly pricing
  • 80 GB GPU RAM
  • 240 GiB Droplet RAM
  • 20 Droplet vCPUs
  • 5 TiB NVMe scratch disk

Prices as published by the vendor on digitalocean.com, checked 22 Sep 2026; taxes and regional pricing may differ. We do not change a plan's price or its limits — this table is what the vendor's own pricing page said on that date.

What the price includes

  • Built for
    Small business, Mid-market
  • Integrations
    8 integrations: DigitalOcean Load Balancers, DigitalOcean Volumes, DigitalOcean CPU Droplets, DigitalOcean GPU Droplets, DigitalOcean Container Registry, DigitalOcean API …
  • Free plan
    No
  • Paid from
    $12/unit/mo
  • Multi-cluster management
    Yes

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Prices checked by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026

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