DigitalOcean (Basic Droplet, 1 GiB)

www.digitalocean.com/pricing/dropletsVPScompute/digitalocean-droplet-1gbJSON compare report an error provider JSON

Sibling records disagree:

verdict: compute/digitalocean-2 says dead, compute/digitalocean-droplet-1gb says paid-only
identity_kind: compute/digitalocean-2 says institution, compute/digitalocean-droplet-1gb says card

Free allowance: No free tier; the cheapest droplet is '512 MiB | 1 vCPU | 500 GiB | 10 GiB | $0.00595 | $4.00'
Verdict: paidno free allowance; listed for its price
Cost: USD 2.68/monthparsed from the record, in USD
Identity: cardcard required, no phone
Binding limit: volume-quota1,000 GiB a month of transfer
Evidence: documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-25checked 2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-25

Free tier	no free tier; the cheapest droplet is '512 MiB \| 1 vCPU \| 500 GiB \| 10 GiB \| $0.00595 \| $4.00' unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Limits	volume-quota (binding) 1,000 GiB a month of transfer source
Binding	volume-quota 1,000 GiB of transfer is the published ceiling, but the price is what fails here: 1 GiB costs USD 6.00.
Identity	card an account with a payment method, required before any droplet
Egress	'1,000 GiB' of transfer on the 1 GiB droplet, from the plan table free allowance: 1,000 GiB
Retention	the disk persists while the droplet is paid; billed hourly, capped at the monthly price
Interface	ssh, rest root SSH, the DigitalOcean control panel, and the API
Tooling	any SSH client; doctl and API; Terraform provider
Composes with	the most expensive per GiB of the brand-name clouds; justified only by tooling and API maturity
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The 512 MiB droplet at USD 4.00 is the only sub-USD-5 row and it is too small for anything; 1 GiB is USD 6.00 and 2 GiB is USD 12.00. The corpus's old '$4 droplet, 1 GiB' figure no longer holds: USD 4.00 now buys 512 MiB.
Evidence note	documented the plan table's shape, allowed transfer, disk, hourly and monthly prices are quoted from the vendor's pricing page read.
Parsed numbers	price USD 2.68 / month price USD 6 / month price USD 6 / month volume-quota 1000 GiB / month

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-24	www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets	quoted: '\| 1 GiB \| 1 vCPU \| 1,000 GiB \| 25 GiB \| $0.00893 \| $6.00 \|'
2026-10-24	www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets	quoted: '\| 512 MiB \| 1 vCPU \| 500 GiB \| 10 GiB \| $0.00595 \| $4.00 \|'

More fields 17

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 "shape": {
  "vcpu": 1,
  "ram_gib": 1,
  "disk_gib": 25,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null
 },
 "billing_model": "hourly, capped at the monthly price",
 "term": "hourly",
 "m10h_usd": 2.68,
 "m24h_usd": 6.0,
 "price_arithmetic": "24/7: USD 0.00893/h x 730 = USD 6.52, capped at USD 6.00/month. 10 h/day: USD 0.00893 x 300 = USD 2.68.",
 "out_of_pocket_usd": 6.0,
 "renewal_usd": 6.0,
 "renewal_note": "hourly list rate, no contract",
 "promo": false,
 "over_line": true,
 "port_mbps": null,
 "ipv4_included": true,
 "ipv6": true,
 "free_tier_kind": "none",
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "allow_inbound_listen": true,
  "ports": "all",
  "static_ip": true,
  "ipv6": true,
  "per_session_bytes": null
 },
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "none; it is a VM"
 }
}

Unknown values 2

$.per_object_cap.stated the field does not apply to this kind of offer
$.reliability_note nothing of this kind was observed