App Platform Pricing
Validated on 17 Jan 2025 • Last edited on 25 Feb 2026
App Platform is a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that deploys applications from Git repositories or container images. It automatically builds, deploys, and scales components while handling all underlying infrastructure.
An app is made up of one or more components like web services , databases, or workers . When you run an app, we deploy an instance (that is, a container) for each component. The total cost of running a component is determined by the container size multiplied by the number of containers.
Most plans allow you to scale your app (add additional containers) to match your workload. Plans with dedicated CPUs offer autoscaling.
Apps are billed by the second, with a one-minute minimum. Databases (both development and production) are billed by the hour, with a one-hour minimum. If you create an app and destroy it less than a minute later, you are still charged the $0.01 minimum.
App components are billed for the first 28 days of the month after creation. Renaming a component restarts the 28-day count, which can result in extra charges at the end of the month. For example, if you create a component on 1 July and rename it on 3 July, you are billed for 30 days in July instead of 28.
Current Plans
The table below shows monthly pricing per container and available container sizes.
| API/CLI Slug | CPUs | RAM | Bandwidth Allowance | Price | Manual Scaling | Auto Scaling |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
apps-s-1vcpu-0.5gb |
1 shared | 512 MiB | 50 GiB per month | $5.00 per month | No | No |
apps-s-1vcpu-1gb-fixed |
1 shared | 1 GiB | 100 GiB per month | $10.00 per month | No | No |
apps-s-1vcpu-1gb |
1 shared | 1 GiB | 150 GiB per month | $12.00 per month | Yes | No |
apps-s-1vcpu-2gb |
1 shared | 2 GiB | 200 GiB per month | $25.00 per month | Yes | No |
apps-s-2vcpu-4gb |
2 shared | 4 GiB | 250 GiB per month | $50.00 per month | Yes | No |
apps-d-1vcpu-0.5gb |
1 dedicated | 512 MiB | 100 GiB per month | $29.00 per month | Yes | Yes |
apps-d-1vcpu-1gb |
1 dedicated | 1 GiB | 200 GiB per month | $34.00 per month | Yes | Yes |
apps-d-1vcpu-2gb |
1 dedicated | 2 GiB | 300 GiB per month | $39.00 per month | Yes | Yes |
apps-d-1vcpu-4gb |
1 dedicated | 4 GiB | 400 GiB per month | $49.00 per month | Yes | Yes |
apps-d-2vcpu-4gb |
2 dedicated | 4 GiB | 500 GiB per month | $78.00 per month | Yes | Yes |
apps-d-2vcpu-8gb |
2 dedicated | 8 GiB | 600 GiB per month | $98.00 per month | Yes | Yes |
apps-d-4vcpu-8gb |
4 dedicated | 8 GiB | 700 GiB per month | $156.00 per month | Yes | Yes |
apps-d-4vcpu-16gb |
4 dedicated | 16 GiB | 800 GiB per month | $196.00 per month | Yes | Yes |
apps-d-8vcpu-32gb |
8 dedicated | 32 GiB | 900 GiB per month | $392.00 per month | Yes | Yes |
Free Tier
App Platform offers a free tier for static sites . We recommend the free tier for hosting personal websites, portfolios, small projects, and trying out App Platform.
The free tier includes:
- Deploying up to three apps that use only static site components. For example, you can deploy an app that hosts four different static websites, and then create two additional apps that host a single static website for free. Each additional app containing static website components costs $3.00 per month.
- 1 GiB of outbound data for each app. Additional outbound data transfer costs $0.02 per GiB.
Legacy Plans
Legacy plans apply only to apps created before 7 May 2024. We intend to deprecate legacy plans soon, so we strongly encourage using the new plans when creating or upgrading apps. The new plans offer the same or better pricing and substantially higher egress data allowance.
App Services and Jobs
App services and jobs are billed at a monthly rate based on the selected size slug, prorated per second. Unlike services, jobs are billed only when they run.
Bandwidth
Each App Platform plan includes an amount of free outbound data transfer. Additional outbound transfer is billed at $0.02 per GiB. Inbound transfer to App Platform is free.
Transfer allowance and usage is pooled cumulatively across all apps at the team level, not individually per app or component. Accrued transfer does not roll over between months and cannot be transferred between teams.
You can view ingress bandwidth for individual apps, but you cannot currently view the accrued transfer allowance or cumulative usage for App Platform.
For more details and examples of bandwidth billing for App Platform, see the bandwidth billing page.
Dedicated Egress IP Addresses
Dedicated IPs are billed per second, up to $25.00 per month. A minimum usage of 60 seconds is enforced on first use.
Development Databases
Development databases cost $7.00 per month per 512 MB database. Additional outbound data transfer costs $0.02 per GiB per month.
You can view the pricing for DigitalOcean Managed Databases, Spaces (object storage), and DigitalOcean Functions on the pricing page.