DigitalOcean Apps pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
DigitalOcean Apps (digitalocean.com) is a hosting platform. Fixed price per container with included transfer. Free plan: 3 static sites.
What DigitalOcean Apps costs
- Entry plan: $5/mo
- Small app: $6/mo
Plan compared: 512 MiB shared container. Cheapest paid plan per month (per seat where plans are seat-based).
DigitalOcean Apps price hikes
No price hikes on record for DigitalOcean Apps.
Cheaper alternatives to DigitalOcean Apps
At the entry plan, DigitalOcean Apps costs $5/mo. 1 hosting platform costs less:
- Fly.io: $2.19/mo (Smallest Machine, 256 MB)
DigitalOcean Apps alternatives: 8 hosting platforms compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- May 7, 2024 · Repriced: One instance catalog with per-instance bandwidth and cheaper overage replaced Basic and Professional tiers.
Sources
Pricing page: digitalocean.com/pricing/app-platform. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Small app = $5 instance with 50 GiB included + 50 GiB × $0.02 = $6.