Digitalocean Introduces GPU Droplets with On-Demand Pricing Starting at $2.99/GPU/hour
What happened
Between the Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025 captures of Digitalocean's pricing page, Pulse recorded 3 changes: GPU Droplets section added to main pricing page with on-demand pricing starting at $2.99/GPU/hour; Additional GPU Options section added with variable pricing for diverse GPU compute options including bare metal; VPC pricing benefits expanded with explicit overage costs: Public Internet Egress Overage at $0.01/GiB and Private VPC Egress Overage at $0.01/GiB. Pulse files it as a packaging change (new plan, feature change) 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.
Digitalocean's previous recorded change was "Digitalocean Introduces Global Load Balancers, Enhancing Cloud Infrastructure Options" (Q3 2024). 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.
- GPU Droplets · PlanAddedNo GPU Droplets sectionGPU Droplets section
- Additional GPU Options · PlanAdded
BeforeNo Additional GPU Options section
AfterAdditional GPU Options section
- VPC · FeatureFeature change
VPC pricing benefits expanded with explicit overage costs: Public Internet Egress Overage at $0.01/GiB and Private VPC Egress Overage at $0.01/GiB
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU Droplets | Plan | No GPU Droplets section | GPU Droplets section | Added |
| Additional GPU Options | Plan | No Additional GPU Options section | Additional GPU Options section | Added |
| VPC | Feature | — | $0.01/GiB | Feature change |
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 comparedFull-page captures of Digitalocean's pricing page (digitalocean.com) from Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the change is marked on the page, where GPU Droplets section now appears.
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Digitalocean, the last 90 days
Full history- Q3 2025decreaseDigitalocean Reduces Gradient™ AI Platform Pricing by 24% to $0.15/M Tokens, Enhancing Accessibility for Users
- Q2 2025decreaseDigitalocean Reduces On-Demand GPU Droplet Pricing by 52%, Now Just $0.76/GPU/hour
- Q1 2025decreaseDigitalocean GPU Droplet Pricing Slashed by 47.5%, Now Just $1.57/GPU/hour
- Q4 2024packagingDigitalocean Introduces GPU Droplets with On-Demand Pricing Starting at $2.99/GPU/hour · this change
- Q3 2024improvedDigitalocean Introduces Global Load Balancers, Enhancing Cloud Infrastructure Options
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- AwsJan 11Aws Kendra Expands Free Tier to Include GenAI Enterprise Edition, Offering 750 Hours for First 30 Days
- VultrOct 19Vultr drops 4x and 8x NVIDIA A16 GPU tiers, jumping from 2x straight to 16x
- VultrSep 28Vultr: NVIDIA A16 2-GPU tier RAM cut 128GB→120GB
- Google CloudSep 21Looker: Conversational Analytics grace period extended indefinitely
- Google CloudSep 21Google Cloud Looker scraps Sept 30 deadline, extends free CA access indefinitely
Questions about this change
Did Digitalocean raise prices in January 2025?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new plan, feature change.
What changed on Digitalocean's pricing page between Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025?
GPU Droplets plan: No GPU Droplets section → GPU Droplets section, added; Additional GPU Options plan: No Additional GPU Options section → Additional GPU Options section, added; VPC pricing benefits expanded with explicit overage costs: Public Internet Egress Overage at $0.01/GiB and Private VPC Egress Overage at $0.01/GiB. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Digitalocean change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 1 other pricing-page change for Digitalocean in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Digitalocean Introduces Global Load Balancers, Enhancing Cloud Infrastructure Options" in Q3 2024; Digitalocean has been tracked since 2024-10-01.