DigitalOcean App Platform
- Free allowance
- App Platform offers a free tier for static sites ...
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota1 GiB outbound per free static app
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | App Platform offers a free tier for static sites ... Deploying up to three apps that use only static site components ... 1 GiB of outbound data for each app. unit GiB; metered on downloaded-bytes |
|---|---|
| Price | USD 0 |
| Limits |
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| Binding | volume-quota 1 GiB per app is 0.001 TiB, and static hosting offers no port at all. |
| Identity | card A DigitalOcean account; paid components need a payment method, and no dynamic component exists on the free tier. |
| Egress | 1 GiB of outbound data for each free static app; additional outbound $0.02 per GiB on paid plans.; ingress: http-only free allowance: 1 GiB of outbound data for each free static app; additional outbound $0.02 per GiB on paid plans. |
| Interface | rest, cli doctl, API, and console; app spec in YAML. |
| Tooling | doctl and the console; app spec YAML. |
| Composes with | Serves a static front end; carries no socket. |
| Reliability | None; static hosting only. |
| Notes | The cheapest runtime component is $5/month; the free tier is a CDN for static files. |
| Evidence note | documented A probe is impossible: the free tier has no runtime service to connect to. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/details/pricing/ | "App Platform offers a free tier for static sites"; three static apps; 1 GiB outbound each; $0.02/GiB above |
More fields 7
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