Digitalocean slashes Network File Storage prices 50% with new tiered plans
What happened
Between the Mar 16, 2026 and Mar 23, 2026 captures of Digitalocean's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Network File Storage introduced tiered pricing: Standard tier at $0.15/GiB/month (50% reduction from $0.30) and High Performance tier at $0.30/GiB/month. Pulse files it as a pricing change (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 20 days after Digitalocean's previous change, "Digitalocean GPU Droplets jump 26% to $1.88/hr on multi-month contracts" (Mar 3, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "Digitalocean sets $0.01 floor on per-second Droplet billing" (Feb 18, 2026) and "Digitalocean Introduces Usage-Based Backups Pricing Starting at $0.01/GiB/Month Alongside New Network File Storage Product" (Jan 11, 2026). 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.
- Network File Storage · PriceAddedNo tiered pricingtiered pricing
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Network File Storage | Price | No tiered pricing | tiered pricing | 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 Mar 16, 2026 and Mar 23, 2026; the change is marked around the middle of the page, where tiered pricing now appears.
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Digitalocean, the last 90 days
Full history- Apr 13, 2026packagingDigitalocean Slashes AI Inference Pricing 67% on Gradient Platform
- Apr 9, 2026packagingDigitalocean launches free Cloud Security Posture Management tool
- Apr 3, 2026increaseDigitalOcean: committed GPU Droplet price raised to $1.88/GPU/hour
- Mar 23, 2026decreaseDigitalocean slashes Network File Storage prices 50% with new tiered plans · this change
- 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
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 March 2026?
No — prices went down. Between Mar 16, 2026 and Mar 23, 2026 Digitalocean's pricing page showed 1 price cut: Network File Storage: No tiered pricing → tiered pricing (added).
What changed on Digitalocean's pricing page between Mar 16, 2026 and Mar 23, 2026?
Network File Storage price: No tiered pricing → tiered pricing, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Mar 16, 2026 and Mar 23, 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 GPU Droplets jump 26% to $1.88/hr on multi-month contracts" on Mar 3, 2026; Digitalocean has been tracked since 2024-10-01.