DigitalOcean Pricing in Singapore [2025]: Guide to Plans and Features

DigitalOcean¹ launched in 2012, initially with the DigitalOcean Droplet - a simple to use virtual machine. The DigitalOcean product range has expanded since, and today offers a range of cloud computing solutions aimed at startups and small businesses, including AI/ML products and managed Kubernetes.

This guide covers the most popular DigitalOcean products, plans, packages and more, looking at the DigitalOcean cloud pricing² options available. Plus, because DigitalOcean bills in USD, we’ll also touch on Wise Business as a smart way to pay SaaS fees (like DigitalOcean's) in foreign currencies conveniently and cheaply.

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DigitalOcean pricing and plans: overview What is the pricing currency? DigitalOcean bandwidth pricing calculator How to save on your DigitalOcean bill next month DigitalOcean vs Vultr price comparison DigitalOcean pricing: FAQs

DigitalOcean pricing and plans: overview

DigitalOcean offers a very broad range of products across computing, networking, AI, storage and databases. The key product options offered include:

• Droplets - scalable virtual machines
• Kubernetes - for more effective scaling
• AI/ML - to build and scale AI models
• Cloudways - managed cloud hosting
• App platform - to get apps to market faster

Because the range of products offered by DigitalOcean is quite varied, the pricing is also diverse depending on the products you’re interested in using. Some products are billed monthly, while others are offered based on usage. Here’s a summary - we’ll look in more detail at some of the core DigitalOcean products in this guide, in particular the Droplets and functions options.

Product name	DigitalOcean pricing
GenAI Platform	From 0.198 USD/M tokens
Droplets	From 4 USD/month
GPU Droplets	From 2.50 USD/GPU/hour with a 12-month contractual commitment. Or choose on-demand pricing from 2.99 USD/GPU/hour.
Kubernetes	From 12 USD/month
App platform	From 0 USD/month
Functions	From 0 USD/month
Databases	From 15 USD/month
Spaces	From 5 USD/month
Volumes	From 10 USD/month
Load Balancers	From 12 USD/month
Container Registry	From 0 USD/month
Support plan	From 0 USD/month
Uptime	From 0 USD/month
Backups	20% of Droplet cost per month if billed weekly 30% of Droplet cost per month if billed daily
Additional GPU Options	Variable pricing

*Details correct at time of research - 17th March 2025

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What is the pricing currency?

DigitalOcean states their prices in US dollars.

All DigitalOcean invoices will be produced in USD, and payments can only be made in USD. Standard payment methods include Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, PayPal, Google Pay, and Apple Pay. You can also arrange to pay by bank transfer if you contact the sales team directly.

• Bear in mind that if you are paying in USD from Singapore, you may find your own bank or card issuer also adds a fee.
• If you have a card foreign transaction fee, this is likely to be around 3%.
• If you’re paying from your bank, you may find you have to cover a transfer fee, as well as charges which are added into the exchange rate used to convert from SGD to USD.

The good news is you may be able to bring down the costs using a Wise Business account and card. Wise offers a business expense card for use in 150+ countries, which doesn’t charge a foreign transaction fee. Instead, you’ll simply pay low conversion costs which you can easily see in the Wise app.

It's important to note you might encounter a couple of other scenarios where your business in Singapore gets charged DigitalOcean fees in a foreign currency rather than SGD. By understanding these scenarios, you can take proactive steps to manage your billing effectively and avoid unnecessary foreign transaction fees.

💡Considerations for Cross-Currency Billing:
Centralised Payment Systems: If your business (eg. a Singapore subsidiary) uses a centralised payment system or corporate credit card based in another country, your DigitalOcean account might be linked to this system, resulting in billing in the currency of the payment system rather than SGD. This can lead to additional currency conversion fees.
Initial Account Setup: If your DigitalOcean account was initially set up by your business in another country before establishing a branch in Singapore, the account might still be billed in the original currency unless updated. This is another scenario where you might incur cross-currency charges.

Learn how Wise Business can help you save on cross-currency bills

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DigitalOcean VPS pricing and options

A VPS (virtual personal server) offers private and independent space on a physical server and is used by businesses looking for cost effective ways to host websites or blogs, databases, eCommerce stores and similar sites. A VPS can also be used for video streaming, gaming platforms and Software as a Service solutions. Using a VPS is convenient and scalable as business needs change, making this a popular choice for many different types of business.

DigitalOcean’s VPS services are called Droplets. These are easily deployed cloud VMs which offer scalable ways to run operating systems, store data, and connect to networks. Shared CPU Droplets are the cheapest solution available from DigitalOcean. With this service you’ll share processing power with different users, with power being assigned according to the usage of each user. DigitalOcean Droplets pricing for this option is as follows³:

• Shared CPU Droplets starting at 4 USD/month, recommended for personal websites and test environments
• Premium Droplets start at 7 USD/month for 1GB memory, 1vCPU (either Intel or AMD), 25GB NVMe SSDs, and 1000GB transfer

Aside from this, there are also dedicated CPU Droplets, including General Purpose, CPU-Optimised, Memory-Optimised, and Storage-Optimised CPU Droplets⁴.

• General Purpose CPU Droplets from 63 USD/month for 8GB memory, 25GB SSD, and 4TB transfer
• CPU-Optimised CPU Droplets from 42 USD/month for 4GB memory, 25GB SSD, and 4TB transfer
• Memory-Optimised CPU Droplets from 84 USD/month for 16GB memory and 2vCPUs, 50GB SSD, and 4TB transfer
• Storage-Optimised CPU Droplets from 131 USD/month for 16GB memory, 300GB SSD, and 4TB transfer

Which DigitalOcean VPS or Droplet Plan is right for my business?

You might find there’s a DigitalOcean VPS Plan that works for your business if you use a Linux operating system, and need web hosting or other flexible and scalable ways to access processing power. Because there are many different pricing and service options, there’s a great range of products to suit businesses of many different types.

As a rule of thumb, DigitalOcean recommends the following:

• Basic CPU Droplets for low traffic web serves, blogs, small databases and microservices
• General Purpose CPU Droplets for medium to high traffic web servers, eCommerce sites, SaaS and larger databases
• CPU-Optimised CPU Droplets for media streaming, machine learning, batch processing and data analytics
• Memory-Optimised for high performance SQL or NoSQL databases, real time big data processing and in memory caches
• Storage-Optimised CPU Droplets for high performance SQL or NoSQL databases including MongoDB and ElasticSearch

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DigitalOcean functions pricing

DigitalOcean functions⁵ is an on demand serverless computing solution which lets you develop and launch apps without needing a server yourself. You only pay when your resources are active, making this an easily scalable and flexible option, even for small and growing businesses. Features include:

• Integration with managed databases
• Live previews and test options
• Support for common languages and runtimes like Node.js, Python, Go and PHP
• Ways to build an API without needing to learn a new language or framework

DigitalOcean functions pricing is as follows:

• 90,000 GiB-seconds of compute per month per account, then 0.0000185 USD per GiB-seconds for additional memory and runtime, with a 100ms minimum runtime per function invocation.

Is the DigitalOcean functions plan right for my business?

The DigitalOcean functions services can suit businesses which need to quickly and efficiently build, test and launch apps. Because the pricing is flexible, DigitalOcean functions can suit newer businesses looking for a pay as you use model.

DigitalOcean bandwidth pricing calculator

DigitalOcean offers an interactive bandwidth pricing calculator⁶ which can be really helpful to model how billing may work in your specific situation. You’ll simply need to enter details of the type of Droplet you need to use, to get more information. You can also get in touch with the DigitalOcean sales team if you need to get one to one help.

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How to save on your DigitalOcean bill next month

DigitalOcean has extremely flexible pricing for their different services, which can include pay per use options depending on the specific products or services you need. No matter whether you’re using a pay per use service, or have monthly fees from Digital Ocean you’ll want to make sure you’re getting the most from your DigitalOcean service. Here are some tips to help:

• Check if there’s a free trial or free credit offer that DigitalOcean is running at the time you sign up - at the time of research this could get you 200 USD in credit automatically
• Audit your own and your teams’ usage of DigitalOcean regularly to make sure you’re not paying ongoing fees for services which aren’t valuable to your team
• Use a multi-currency account and card from a provider like Wise Business to cut out foreign transaction fees when you pay in USD to DigitalOcean

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DigitalOcean Vs Vultr price comparison

Vultr⁷ offers cloud infrastructure tools including GPUs, virtual CPUs, bare metal, Kubernetes, storage, and networking solutions. There is a lot of overlap with the products which are available from Vultr and DigitalOcean. As with DigitalOcean, the pricing structure for Vultr⁸ is fairly complex and designed to be very scalable depending on your business needs.

To give an example, regular performance CPUs run from 2.5 USD/month to 640 USD/month depending on the memory, bandwidth and storage you require. As a reminder, for this product, DigitalOcean pricing starts from 4 USD a month.

General Purpose VMs which are recommended for web and app servers, eCommerce, game servers, video and audio streaming start from 30 USD a month. DigitalOcean has General Purpose CPU Droplets from 63 USD a month. The basic level of DigitalOcean plan does have more memory compared to Vultr, though, so you’ll need to compare both options side by side to decide which works best for your specific business needs.

When you’re comparing your options, it can also pay to look for customer reviews on a site like Trustpilot. Here customer feedback and ratings are aggregated to give a live score, helping you to see what current users think of the services which are provided. At the time of writing, DigitalOcean has a 4.5 stars out of 5 Excellent rating on Trustpilot⁹, with 68% of reviewers giving the provider the full 5 stars. Vultr on the other hand has a lower number of reviews registered, and scores a 2.4 star overall rating¹⁰. Only 22% of reviewers give the full 5 star rating, and 65% give the lowest available 1 star.

These results are dynamic and do change over time, so you’ll need to take a look to see the latest before you sign up - but this can be a valuable source of insight into the providers available for you.

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DigitalOcean pricing: FAQs

Does DigitalOcean pricing include a free trial?

At the time of research, DigitalOcean has an offer available which can mean you get 200 USD of credit when you open an account. This is available for 60 days once your account is opened. Check out the details of any trial or free offers before you sign up.

What do DigitalOcean pricing plans cover?

DigitalOcean pricing plans include some products which are billed by usage and some which have a monthly price to pay. Exactly what you get - and what you pay for it - can be arranged according to your own specific business needs. If you’re unsure, you can see the DigitalOcean bandwidth calculator which helps you to figure out the likely requirements for your business. You can also call the sales team which can guide you through the process of picking the services you need.

What does DigitalOcean cloud pricing cost for a small business?

DigitalOcean pricing plans are very varied which means you can select the tools and products you need, and avoid paying for services you won’t use. For example, if you’re running an eCommerce store you might choose General Purpose CPU Droplets which are priced from 63 USD a month for 8GB memory, 25GB SSD, and 4TB transfer. Products are scalable, so you can get elastic services quickly and easily as and when you need them.

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Conclusion

DigitalOcean has an excellent range of products and services which can help digital businesses based in Singapore.

Whether you run an eCommerce site, use your business website for marketing, or you’re streaming media, using managed databases or need a flexible CPU, DigitalOcean has products and services to help.

The DigitalOcean pricing is very varied which can make it appealing to all types of businesses, including newer and smaller companies which need scalable solutions with low maintenance costs and needs.

💡 However it’s important to note that you can only pay DigitalOcean in USD. This may mean you pay fees to your bank or your card provider every time you cover your invoice. You may be able to reduce or avoid these additional foreign transaction fees by using Wise Business for easy, low cost ways to manage your business finances across 40+ currencies. Use this guide to explore your options with DigitalOcean, and don’t forget to check out Wise Business as a solution for your international finances.

• Hold and manage 40+ currencies for all your international transactions
• Pay your SaaS bills and overseas suppliers in foreign currencies without the hefty foreign transaction fees
• Always get the mid-market rate with zero markup
• Seamless integrations with popular accounting software
• Say goodbye to monthly fees

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Sources:

1. DigitalOcean
2. DigitalOcean pricing
3. DigitalOcean VPS pricing
4. DigitalOcean Droplet pricing
5. DigitalOcean functions
6. DigitalOcean bandwidth pricing calculator
7. Vultr
8. Vultr pricing
9. Trustpilot - DigitalOcean
10. Trustpilot - Vultr

Sources checked on 17th March 2025