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DigitalOcean Hatch
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- Free allowance
- Hatch was DigitalOcean's startup credit program.
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedThe program is retired, which binds before any quota or identity question.
- Evidence
- documented3 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- checked 2026-10-22checked 2026-10-22 (live)
| Free tier | Hatch was DigitalOcean's startup credit program. Its own terms page now states: 'The Hatch Program is no longer an active program offered by DigitalOcean, and has been replaced with DigitalOcean Startups Program.' The URL digitalocean.com/hatch answers with a 301 to digitalocean.com/startups, which serves 200. unit none; metered on wall-clock; none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) The program is retired, which binds before any quota or identity question. source
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| Identity | email The successor program's identity cost applies; see the DigitalOcean Startups finding. |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | None: the name is a redirect, and the successor program carries the credits. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Recorded as dead rather than paid-only because the program is withdrawn, not merely unpriced. Old directories still describe Hatch criteria, including the old partner-affiliation requirement, which contradicts the live successor page. The live page wins. |
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Evidence 3
More fields 1
{
"facets": {
"class": "startup-credit",
"free_tier_kind": "none",
"shape": null
}
}Unknown values 7
$.egress.metered egress metering was not published$.egress.terms a source was read and is silent on this field$.interface the access interface was not established$.per_object_cap.stated the field does not apply to this kind of offer$.reliability_note nothing of this kind was observed$.retention.stated the field does not apply to this kind of offer$.tooling a source was read and is silent on this field