DigitalOcean: GPU Droplets starting price up ($1.88→$1.91/GPU/hour)
What happened
Between the Jul 13, 2026 and Jul 27, 2026 captures of Digitalocean's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: GPU Droplets starting price (multi-month contractual commitment) increased from $1.88/GPU/hour to $1.91/GPU/hour; on-demand pricing unchanged at $0.76/GPU/hour. Pulse files it as a pricing change (price increase) 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.
It lands 22 days after Digitalocean's previous change, "DigitalOcean launches Evaluations: LLM-as-a-Judge pricing, pay per token used" (Jul 6, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "DigitalOcean: AI Inference price cut 67% ($0.15->$0.05/M) + new Security (CSPM)" (Jul 2, 2026) and "Digitalocean rebrands AI Platform to Inference for broader ML reach" (Jun 8, 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.
- GPU Droplets · Price+2%$1.88/GPU/hour$1.91/GPU/hour
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU Droplets | Price | $1.88/GPU/hour | $1.91/GPU/hour | +2% |
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 Jul 13, 2026 and Jul 27, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where gpu droplets price reads $1.88/GPU/hour and then $1.91/GPU/hour.
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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) · this change
- 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)
- Jun 8, 2026packagingDigitalocean rebrands AI Platform to Inference for broader ML reach
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 July 2026?
Yes. Pulse captured Digitalocean's pricing page on Jul 13, 2026 and again on Jul 27, 2026 and recorded 1 price increase: GPU Droplets: $1.88/GPU/hour → $1.91/GPU/hour (+2%).
What changed on Digitalocean's pricing page between Jul 13, 2026 and Jul 27, 2026?
GPU Droplets price: $1.88/GPU/hour → $1.91/GPU/hour (+2%). Pulse compared the captures it took on Jul 13, 2026 and Jul 27, 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 launches Evaluations: LLM-as-a-Judge pricing, pay per token used" on Jul 6, 2026; Digitalocean has been tracked since 2024-10-01.