Digitalocean Introduces Usage-Based Backups Pricing Starting at $0.01/GiB/Month Alongside New Network File Storage Product
What happened
Between the Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026 captures of Digitalocean's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: Backups pricing expanded to include usage-based option starting at $0.01/GiB per month alongside existing percentage-based pricing (20% for weekly, 30% for daily); Network File Storage added as a new storage product at $0.30/GiB/month with 50 GiB minimum, 10 GiB increments, and snapshots billed at $0.06 per GiB/month. Pulse files it as a packaging change (package 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.
Digitalocean's previous recorded change was "Digitalocean Reduces Gradient™ AI Platform Pricing by 24% to $0.15/M Tokens, Enhancing Accessibility for Users" (Q3 2025). Before that Pulse recorded "Digitalocean Reduces On-Demand GPU Droplet Pricing by 52%, Now Just $0.76/GPU/hour" (Q2 2025), "Digitalocean GPU Droplet Pricing Slashed by 47.5%, Now Just $1.57/GPU/hour" (Q1 2025) and "Digitalocean Introduces GPU Droplets with On-Demand Pricing Starting at $2.99/GPU/hour" (Q4 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.
- Backups · PackagingPackage change
Backups pricing expanded to include usage-based option starting at $0.01/GiB per month alongside existing percentage-based pricing (20% for weekly, 30% for daily)
- Network File Storage · PlanAddedNo Network File StorageNetwork File Storage
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Backups | Packaging | — | $0.01/GiB per month | Package change |
| Network File Storage | Plan | No Network File Storage | Network File Storage | Added |
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 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026; the change is marked on the page, where Network File Storage now appears.
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Digitalocean, pricing history
Full history- Mar 23, 2026decreaseDigitalocean slashes Network File Storage prices 50% with new tiered plans
- Mar 3, 2026increaseDigitalocean GPU Droplets jump 26% to $1.88/hr on multi-month contracts
- Feb 18, 2026increaseDigitalocean sets $0.01 floor on per-second Droplet billing
- Jan 11, 2026packagingDigitalocean Introduces Usage-Based Backups Pricing Starting at $0.01/GiB/Month Alongside New Network File Storage Product · this change
- 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
- Q3 2024improvedDigitalocean Introduces Global Load Balancers, Enhancing Cloud Infrastructure Options
- Q1 2024packagingDigitalocean Introduces New Backups Product with Pricing at 20% Weekly or 30% Daily of Droplet Cost
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 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: package change, new plan.
What changed on Digitalocean's pricing page between Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026?
Backups pricing expanded to include usage-based option starting at $0.01/GiB per month alongside existing percentage-based pricing (20% for weekly, 30% for daily); Network File Storage plan: No Network File Storage → Network File Storage, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 5, 2025 and Jan 1, 2026; 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; the previous change was "Digitalocean Reduces Gradient™ AI Platform Pricing by 24% to $0.15/M Tokens, Enhancing Accessibility for Users" in Q3 2025; Digitalocean has been tracked since 2024-10-01.