Compare cloud hosting prices / DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean pricing, explained
Fixed container tiers on App Platform, scaled horizontally, $0.02/GiB bandwidth overage.
Basic
$5/mo1 vCPU, 512 MiB RAM, 50 GiB transfer
Basic
$25/mo1 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM, 200 GiB transfer
Basic
$50/mo2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 250 GiB transfer
What would DigitalOcean actually cost you?
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~5,000 active seats · assumed workload: 8 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 2 TB bandwidth
DigitalOcean
$220/mo
LizardThis is us
$220/mo
Note: horizontally scaled — multiple 2 vCPU/4 GB App Platform instances, not one large container
Estimate for a real production workload at the assumed scale, from DigitalOcean's published pricing. Last verified: August 2026.
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