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The credit is nine times larger than the 60 days can spend at a user's  volume.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"a credit card or PayPal to activate the credit, with a small verification hold; reported by the two third-party pages that carry the offer's terms","country":"None"},"reliability_note":"unused credit expires at 60 days and is not refundable or transferable","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"the $200 and 60 days are third-party; DigitalOcean's pricing page and homepage carry no such offer today and the referral page states only that referrals earn credits. A screenshot of the signed-in billing page, or a first-party campaign page, would raise this to documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"'Public Internet Egress Overage Data transfer is $0.01 per GiB', 'Ingress data transfer is free', 'Droplets include free outbound data transfer, starting at 500 GiB / mo'"},{"url":"https://www.digitaloceanpro.com/promo-code.html","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"third party, published 2026-03-23: 'DigitalOcean offers all new users $200 in free credit with a 60-day validity period' and 'The credit is valid for 60 days from account creation'"},{"url":"https://cloudcredits.io/providers/digitalocean/programs/digitalocean-200","date":"2026-10-23","proved":"third party: 'DigitalOcean's trial offers new users $200 in credits, usable within 60 days' and 'Valid credit card required'"}],"verdict":"trial-only","verified_at":"2026-10-23T00:00:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":"USD 200 of credit","notes":"Arithmetic: $200 over $0.01 a GiB is 20,000 GiB = 19.53 TiB in total. Spread across 60 days that is 9.77 TiB a month, which clears the 1 TiB a month test by a factor of 9.8. This is the best dollars-to-bytes ratio and it is the only one where the bandwidth price is two orders of magnitude below the hyperscalers. Candidates considered: the 500 GiB a month included transfer on the cheapest droplet, which alone is 0.49 TiB and short of the test; and DigitalOcean Startups, recorded separately. Note the egress price is documented and the credit is reported, which makes the whole record reported under the weakest-field rule.","extras":{"wg_path":"native-conf","wg_detail":"a Droplet with a public IPv4; wg-quick binds UDP on the droplet directly","ingress":"udp","volume_tib_month":9.77,"volume_stated":"$200 of credit at $0.01 per GiB is 19.5 TiB, or 9.8 TiB a month across the 60-day credit window, plus 500 GiB a month included per droplet","bytes_transit":"yes","transit_note":"the droplet's outbound bytes cross DigitalOcean's network and are metered per GiB after the included allowance"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":19.5,"unit":"TiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.price_per_tb_month","kind":"price-per-tb","num":200,"unit":"TB","per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":200,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}