DigitalOcean Kubernetes is ranked #13 of 20 in container orchestration software on The Geeks Club. It runs on Web. There is no free plan. Paid plans start at $0.03/mo.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes plans and pricing
All plansBasic $12/mo billed monthly Variable workloads · Free inbound data transfer · Free outbound data transfer starting at 2,000 GiB/month digitalocean.com · 22 Sept 2026
CPU-optimized $42/mo billed monthly Dedicated CPU · 2 GiB RAM per CPU · Lower cost per dedicated vCPU digitalocean.com · 22 Sept 2026
General purpose $63/mo billed monthly Dedicated CPU · 4 GiB RAM per CPU · Designed for a wide range of workloads digitalocean.com · 22 Sept 2026
Memory-optimized $84/mo billed monthly Dedicated CPU · 8 GiB RAM per CPU · For resource-intensive applications digitalocean.com · 22 Sept 2026
Storage-optimized $163/mo billed monthly Dedicated CPU · Guaranteed NVMe · Up to 6.87 TiB of local storage digitalocean.com · 22 Sept 2026
v5 $0.03/mo Billed per second at an hourly rate Shared or dedicated CPU configurations · Configure vCPU, memory, and storage independently · Billed at an hourly rate digitalocean.com · 22 Sept 2026
Compared on container orchestration software
- Free plan
- No
- Paid from
- $12/mo
- Deployment model
- managed
- Multi-cluster management
- Yes
- Autoscaling
- Yes
- Rolling updates
- Yes
- Policy controls
- Yes
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