About
DigitalOcean App Platform is a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service for building, deploying, and scaling web applications, APIs, worker services, and static sites. It streamlines delivery by connecting directly to source repositories or container registries, while DigitalOcean manages the underlying infrastructure, runtimes, and operational overhead.
The platform is designed for teams that want a simpler path from code to production without sacrificing flexibility. It supports modern application architectures, including multi-component apps, microservices, background jobs, and integrations with DigitalOcean’s broader cloud ecosystem.
- Deploy from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, or DigitalOcean Container Registry
- Support for web services, static sites, workers, and jobs within a single app
- Built-in CI/CD workflows, staging, production, and preview environments
- Automatic HTTPS, DDoS mitigation, and managed OS patching
- Autoscaling, rollback support, metrics, log forwarding, and high availability on paid plans
- Integration with managed databases, VPC networking, dedicated egress IPs, and other DigitalOcean services
Free Tier Value
The pricing page states the Free Tier is $0/month and includes 3 static-site apps with 1 GiB outbound transfer per app, plus GitHub/GitLab deploys, HTTPS, custom domains, CDN, DDoS mitigation, and unlimited team members. The cheapest paid option that exceeds the free cap is the Paid Tier starting at $5/month, so the conservative recurring free-tier value is $0 because the free offering is capped and does not directly map to a paid bundle beyond the included free allowance. No explicit no-credit-card or free-trial claim appears on the page, so no_cc_required is false and trial/credit fields are null.
What's included in the free tier
- 3 apps with static sites included at no cost.
- 1 GiB outbound data transfer allowance per static-site app.
- Deployment from GitHub and GitLab repositories.
- Automatic HTTPS for free-tier apps.
- Custom domain support for free-tier apps.
- Global CDN included for free-tier apps.
- DDoS mitigation included for free-tier apps.
- Unlimited team members on the free tier.
See DigitalOcean App Platform pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Paid Tier
- starting price
- $5/month
- revisions for rollbacks
- up to 10
- Deployment from Container Registries
- Shared and Dedicated CPU
- Horizontal and Vertical Scaling
- CPU-based Autoscaling
- Automatic OS patching
- Hourly application metrics
- Log forwarding
- High Availability
Shared (Fixed)
- vCPU
- 1
- memory
- 512 MiB
- transfer
- 50 GiB
- container instances
- 1
- 1 vCPU
- 512 MiB memory
- 50 GiB transfer
- No autoscaling
- Selecting a fixed CPU limits you to one container instance only
Shared (Fixed)
- vCPU
- 1
- memory
- 1 GiB
- transfer
- 100 GiB
- container instances
- 1
- 1 vCPU
- 1 GiB memory
- 100 GiB transfer
- No autoscaling
- Selecting a fixed CPU limits you to one container instance only
Shared
- vCPU
- 1
- memory
- 1 GiB
- transfer
- 150 GiB
- 1 vCPU
- 1 GiB memory
- 150 GiB transfer
- No autoscaling
Shared
- vCPU
- 1
- memory
- 2 GiB
- transfer
- 200 GiB
- 1 vCPU
- 2 GiB memory
- 200 GiB transfer
- No autoscaling
Shared
- vCPU
- 2
- memory
- 4 GiB
- transfer
- 250 GiB
- 2 vCPUs
- 4 GiB memory
- 250 GiB transfer
- No autoscaling
Pricing extracted from DigitalOcean App Platform's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
