Digitalocean launches AI Harness Runtime and Action Gateway pricing tiers
What happened
Between the Sep 21, 2026 and Sep 28, 2026 captures of Digitalocean's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: AI/ML section gains two new priced products: DigitalOcean Harness Runtime ($0.0535/hr, AI coding agent sandboxes) and Action Gateway ($0.10/1,000 calls, tool/MCP access gateway). Pulse files it as a packaging change (new plan) with an upward direction. The current page 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 62 days after Digitalocean's previous change, "DigitalOcean: GPU Droplets starting price up ($1.88→$1.91/GPU/hour)" (Jul 28, 2026). Before that Pulse recorded "DigitalOcean launches Evaluations: LLM-as-a-Judge pricing, pay per token used" (Jul 6, 2026) and "DigitalOcean: AI Inference price cut 67% ($0.15->$0.05/M) + new Security (CSPM)" (Jul 2, 2026). Digitalocean has been tracked since 2024-10-01.
In the same window Vultr, Google Cloud and Heroku also changed their Cloud & DevOps pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- DigitalOcean Harness Runtime, Action Gateway · PlanAdded
BeforeNo two new priced products
Aftertwo new priced products
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean Harness Runtime, Action Gateway | Plan | No two new priced products | two new priced products | 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 Sep 21, 2026 and Sep 28, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where two new priced products now appears.
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Digitalocean, the last 90 days
Full history- Sep 28, 2026packagingDigitalocean launches AI Harness Runtime and Action Gateway pricing tiers · this change
- 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)
Across Cloud & DevOps in the same window
All Cloud & DevOps changesQuestions about this change
Did Digitalocean raise prices in September 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Sep 21, 2026 and Sep 28, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: new plan.
What changed on Digitalocean's pricing page between Sep 21, 2026 and Sep 28, 2026?
DigitalOcean Harness Runtime, Action Gateway plan: No two new priced products → two new priced products, added. Pulse compared the captures it took on Sep 21, 2026 and Sep 28, 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 starting price up ($1.88→$1.91/GPU/hour)" on Jul 28, 2026; Digitalocean has been tracked since 2024-10-01.