DigitalOcean: AI Inference price cut 67% ($0.15->$0.05/M) + new Security (CSPM)
What happened
Between the Mar 30, 2026 and Jun 29, 2026 captures of Digitalocean's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: "Gradient™ AI Platform" renamed to "Inference", price cut $0.15->$0.05 per M tokens (-67%), repositioned as a generic multi-model inference marketplace. New "Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)" product added, starting at $0/month (agentless posture scanning, prioritized findings, guided remediation). In detail: New "Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)" product added to the pricing page, starting at $0/month — agentless security posture scanning with prioritized findings and guided remediation; "Gradient™ AI Platform" renamed to "Inference" and price cut from $0.15 to $0.05 per M tokens (-67%); repositioned from an "AI agent creation" tool to a generic multi-model inference marketplace ("Access leading AI models, Compare cost/speed/capability, Deploy with a single API"). Pulse files it as a pricing change (new add-on, price decrease) with a downward 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.
It lands 25 days after Digitalocean's previous change, "Digitalocean rebrands AI Platform to Inference for broader ML reach" (Jun 8, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Digitalocean Slashes AI Inference Pricing 67% on Gradient Platform" (Apr 13, 2026) and "Digitalocean launches free Cloud Security Posture Management tool" (Apr 9, 2026). Digitalocean has been tracked since 2024-10-01.
In the same window Heroku 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.
- Cloud Security Posture Management · Add-onNew add-onNot listed$0/month
- Inference · Price−67%$0.15$0.05 per M tokens
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Security Posture Management | Add-on | Not listed | $0/month | New add-on |
| Inference | Price | $0.15 | $0.05 per M tokens | −67% |
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 Mar 30, 2026 and Jun 29, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where inference price reads $0.15 and then $0.05 per M tokens.
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Digitalocean, the last 90 days
Full history- Sep 28, 2026packagingDigitalocean launches AI Harness Runtime and Action Gateway pricing tiers
- Jul 28, 2026increaseDigitalOcean: GPU Droplets starting price up ($1.88→$1.91/GPU/hour)
- Jul 6, 2026packagingDigitalOcean launches Evaluations: LLM-as-a-Judge pricing, pay per token used
- Jul 2, 2026decreaseDigitalOcean: AI Inference price cut 67% ($0.15->$0.05/M) + new Security (CSPM) · this change
- Jun 8, 2026packagingDigitalocean rebrands AI Platform to Inference for broader ML reach
- Apr 13, 2026packagingDigitalocean Slashes AI Inference Pricing 67% on Gradient Platform
- Apr 9, 2026packagingDigitalocean launches free Cloud Security Posture Management tool
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changes- HerokuJul 3Heroku: new Postgres Advanced tier added (cluster-based pricing)
- Google CloudJun 15Google Cloud Datastudio pools AI tokens per platform, adds Thinking mode
- Google CloudJun 15Google Cloud Looker shifts Analytics tokens to pooled instance tiers
- Google CloudJun 8Google Cloud reveals search pricing: $2.50/1K requests, $6/1K queries
- HerokuMay 25Heroku splits Postgres into three tiers, adds $40K/mo Advanced plans
Questions about this change
Did Digitalocean raise prices in June 2026?
No — prices went down. Between Mar 30, 2026 and Jun 29, 2026 Digitalocean's pricing page showed 1 price cut: Inference: $0.15 → $0.05 per M tokens (−67%).
What changed on Digitalocean's pricing page between Mar 30, 2026 and Jun 29, 2026?
Cloud Security Posture Management add-on: Not listed → $0/month; Inference price: $0.15 → $0.05 per M tokens (−67%). Pulse compared the captures it took on Mar 30, 2026 and Jun 29, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Digitalocean change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 3 other pricing-page changes for Digitalocean in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Digitalocean rebrands AI Platform to Inference for broader ML reach" on Jun 8, 2026; Digitalocean has been tracked since 2024-10-01.