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DigitaloceanPackaging change · New plan · Jan 5 → Apr 1, 2024

Digitalocean Introduces New Backups Product with Pricing at 20% Weekly or 30% Daily of Droplet Cost

Verified Jan 11, 2026Cloud & DevOpsDirection: up
The changeBackups product — added.
Before · Jan 5No Backups product
After · Apr 1Backups product
added
1 change2 capturesJan 5, 2024 → Apr 1, 2024

What happened

Between the Jan 5, 2024 and Apr 1, 2024 captures of Digitalocean's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Backups product added with pricing at 20% (weekly) or 30% (daily) of Droplet cost per month. Pulse files it as a packaging change (new plan) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Sep 28, 2026) lists Droplets at $4, Spaces Object Storage at $5, Volumes Block Storage at $10, Cloudways Managed Hosting at $11 and Kubernetes at $12.

This is the first pricing-page change Pulse has recorded for Digitalocean. Digitalocean has been tracked since 2024-10-01.

In the same window Aws, Vultr and Google Cloud also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.

  • Backups · PlanAdded
    No Backups productBackups product

Values as written on Digitalocean's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.

Evidence

The two captures Pulse compared

Full-page captures of Digitalocean's pricing page (digitalocean.com) from Jan 5, 2024 and Apr 1, 2024; the change is marked on the page, where Backups product now appears.

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Digitalocean, pricing history

Full history
  1. Q1 2025decreaseDigitalocean GPU Droplet Pricing Slashed by 47.5%, Now Just $1.57/GPU/hour
  2. Q4 2024packagingDigitalocean Introduces GPU Droplets with On-Demand Pricing Starting at $2.99/GPU/hour
  3. Q3 2024improvedDigitalocean Introduces Global Load Balancers, Enhancing Cloud Infrastructure Options
  4. Q1 2024packagingDigitalocean Introduces New Backups Product with Pricing at 20% Weekly or 30% Daily of Droplet Cost · this change

Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window

All Cloud & DevOps changes
  1. AwsJan 11Aws Kendra Expands Free Tier to Include GenAI Enterprise Edition, Offering 750 Hours for First 30 Days
  2. VultrOct 19Vultr drops 4x and 8x NVIDIA A16 GPU tiers, jumping from 2x straight to 16x
  3. VultrSep 28Vultr: NVIDIA A16 2-GPU tier RAM cut 128GB→120GB
  4. Google CloudSep 21Looker: Conversational Analytics grace period extended indefinitely
  5. Google CloudSep 21Google Cloud Looker scraps Sept 30 deadline, extends free CA access indefinitely

Questions about this change

Did Digitalocean raise prices in April 2024?

No list-price increase was recorded between Jan 5, 2024 and Apr 1, 2024. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new plan.

What changed on Digitalocean's pricing page between Jan 5, 2024 and Apr 1, 2024?

Backups plan: No Backups product → Backups product, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Jan 5, 2024 and Apr 1, 2024; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.

How often does Digitalocean change its pricing?

Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Digitalocean in the 90 days before this one; Digitalocean has been tracked since 2024-10-01.