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6 of 20 core criteria documented
18 of 20 criteria with research records

Documented criteria are source-backed values, not estimates. Research records can still have unknown results. Verified does not mean independently tested; extraction confidence and human review are shown with each claim.

At a glance

Specifications

8 documented attributes
AttributeValueState and source
Data processing agreement offered Yes Verified85% confidence
www.digitalocean.com/security (Primary documentation), retrieved 2026-10-03
Evidence
Excerpt...t and we show it through our actions. DigitalOcean uses clear and concise language in our Data Processing Agreement (DPA) and Privacy Policy and backs that up with transparent security and privacy controls...
Excerpt kindrunning text
Subject named in excerptyes
Sourcehttps://www.digitalocean.com/security · Primary documentation · retrieved 2 times from 2026-09-02 to 2026-10-03 · every date
Confidence85% - capped at the measured precision of this kind of excerpt (85%, prose), which is below the reader's own precision (97%)
How it was read
Read bytext pattern muster:\bdata processing (?:agreement|addendum)\b
First observed2026-09-02
Last checked2026-10-03
Human reviewnot documented
Source confidence90%
Reader precision97% (measured by hand for this reader)
Excerpt-kind precision85% (measured by hand over 417 statements of this kind)
Confidence interpretationA heuristic informed by source assessment and reader samples, not a calibrated probability that this individual claim is correct.
Free tier Yes Verified79% confidence
www.digitalocean.com/pricing (Primary documentation), retrieved 2026-10-18
Evidence
Excerpt...r get an assist from our experts Get help from our sales team AI/ML Inference Starting at $0.05 /M tokens AI models for every use case. Access leading AI models Compare cost, speed,...
Excerpt kindrunning text
Subject named in excerptno
Sourcehttps://www.digitalocean.com/pricing · Primary documentation · retrieved 35 times from 2026-09-02 to 2026-10-18 · every date
Confidence79% - capped at the measured precision of this kind of excerpt (79%, prose), which is below the reader's own precision (92%)
How it was read
Read bytext pattern muster:(?<![-\d])\$0(?![\d.,])\s*(?:\/|per\s+)?\s*(?:user|seat|month|mo\b|year|forever)
First observed2026-09-02
Last checked2026-10-18
Human reviewnot documented
Source confidence90%
Reader precision92% (measured by hand for this reader)
Excerpt-kind precision79% (measured by hand over 857 statements of this kind)
Confidence interpretationA heuristic informed by source assessment and reader samples, not a calibrated probability that this individual claim is correct.
Gaming named as a use Yes Verified69% confidence
www.digitalocean.com (Primary documentation), retrieved 2026-09-02
Read from a menu, footer or link list, not from a sentence about the product
Evidence
Excerpt...eliably in the cloud Browse all products Solutions AI/ML CMS Data and IoT Developer Tools Gaming and Media Hosting Security and Networking Startups and SMBs Web and App Platforms See all...
Excerpt kindnavigation entry (a menu, footer or link list, not a sentence about the product)
Subject named in excerptno
Sourcehttps://www.digitalocean.com/ · Primary documentation · retrieved 2026-09-02
Confidence69% - capped at the measured precision of this kind of excerpt (69%, navigation), which is below the reader's own precision (70%)
How it was read
Read bytext pattern muster:\bgam(?:ing|ers?)\b
First observed2026-09-02
Last checked2026-09-02
Later reads1 later read of its source (last on 2026-10-02) did not find this value. A read that finds nothing is not evidence of a change, so the statement stands.
Human reviewnot documented
Source confidence90%
Reader precision70% (measured by hand for this reader)
Excerpt-kind precision69% (measured by hand over 422 statements of this kind)
Confidence interpretationA heuristic informed by source assessment and reader samples, not a calibrated probability that this individual claim is correct.
GDPR compliance stated Yes Verified71% confidence
www.digitalocean.com/security (Primary documentation), retrieved 2026-10-03
Evidence
Excerpt...k of a cloud service. Learn more about Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) GDPR DigitalOcean is GDPR compliant and we show it through our actions. DigitalOcean uses clear and concise language in our D...
Excerpt kindrunning text
Subject named in excerptyes
Sourcehttps://www.digitalocean.com/security · Primary documentation · retrieved 2 times from 2026-09-02 to 2026-10-03 · every date
Confidence71% - capped at the average precision across all our readers (71%); this reader has no measurement of its own
How it was read
Read bytext pattern muster:(?<!become )\bGDPR[- ]compliant\b
First observed2026-09-02
Last checked2026-10-03
Human reviewnot documented
Source confidence90%
Reader precision71% - no measurement for this reader; this is the average across all our readers, measured by hand
Excerpt-kind precision85% (measured by hand over 417 statements of this kind)
Confidence interpretationA heuristic informed by source assessment and reader samples, not a calibrated probability that this individual claim is correct.
Public API Yes Verified69% confidence
docs.digitalocean.com (Primary documentation), retrieved 2026-10-03
Read from a menu, footer or link list, not from a sentence about the product
Evidence
Excerpt...Available Models page . View All Release Notes Company About Careers Blog Docs Docs Home API Reference CLI Reference Release Notes llms.txt Trust Platform Community Tutorials Q&A Write for DOn...
Excerpt kindnavigation entry (a menu, footer or link list, not a sentence about the product)
Subject named in excerptno
Sourcehttps://docs.digitalocean.com/ · Primary documentation · retrieved 2 times from 2026-09-02 to 2026-10-03 · every date
Confidence69% - capped at the measured precision of this kind of excerpt (69%, navigation), which is below the reader's own precision (94%)
How it was read
Read bytext pattern muster:\bAPI\s+(?:documentation|reference|docs)\b
First observed2026-09-02
Last checked2026-10-03
Human reviewnot documented
Source confidence90%
Reader precision94% (measured by hand for this reader)
Excerpt-kind precision69% (measured by hand over 422 statements of this kind)
Confidence interpretationA heuristic informed by source assessment and reader samples, not a calibrated probability that this individual claim is correct.
Public list price Yes Verified79% confidence
www.digitalocean.com/pricing (Primary documentation), retrieved 2026-10-18
Evidence
Excerpt...r candidate + judge token usage View Evaluations pricing Compute App Platform Starting at $0 /month Simple, fully-managed infrastructure solution Build, deploy and scale apps quickly Fully...
Excerpt kindrunning text
Subject named in excerptno
Sourcehttps://www.digitalocean.com/pricing · Primary documentation · retrieved 35 times from 2026-09-02 to 2026-10-18 · every date
Confidence79% - capped at the measured precision of this kind of excerpt (79%, prose), which is below the reader's own precision (95%)
How it was read
Read bytext pattern muster:(?<![\d.])[$€£](?<![\d.])\d{1,5}(?:\.\d{2})?(?![\d])\s*(?:/|per\s+)\s*(?:month|mo\b|user|seat|year|yr\b)
First observed2026-09-02
Last checked2026-10-18
Human reviewnot documented
Source confidence90%
Reader precision95% (measured by hand for this reader)
Excerpt-kind precision79% (measured by hand over 857 statements of this kind)
Confidence interpretationA heuristic informed by source assessment and reader samples, not a calibrated probability that this individual claim is correct.
Small businesses named as an audience Yes Verified69% confidence
www.digitalocean.com (Primary documentation), retrieved 2026-09-02
Read from a menu, footer or link list, not from a sentence about the product
Evidence
Excerpt...ata and IoT Developer Tools Gaming and Media Hosting Security and Networking Startups and SMBs Web and App Platforms See all solutions Developers Community Documentation Developer Tool...
Excerpt kindnavigation entry (a menu, footer or link list, not a sentence about the product)
Subject named in excerptno
Sourcehttps://www.digitalocean.com/ · Primary documentation · retrieved 2026-09-02
Confidence69% - capped at the measured precision of this kind of excerpt (69%, navigation), which is below the average precision across all our readers (71%); this reader has no measurement of its own
How it was read
Read bytext pattern muster:\bSMBs\b
First observed2026-09-02
Last checked2026-09-02
Later reads1 later read of its source (last on 2026-10-02) did not find this value. A read that finds nothing is not evidence of a change, so the statement stands.
Human reviewnot documented
Source confidence90%
Reader precision71% - no measurement for this reader; this is the average across all our readers, measured by hand
Excerpt-kind precision69% (measured by hand over 422 statements of this kind)
Confidence interpretationA heuristic informed by source assessment and reader samples, not a calibrated probability that this individual claim is correct.
SOC 2 Type II Yes Verified85% confidence
www.digitalocean.com/security (Primary documentation), retrieved 2026-10-03
Evidence
Excerpt...ng access to other resources. Certification reports SOC 2 and SOC 3 DigitalOcean is AICPA SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 Type II certified. By achieving compliance with this globally recognized inform...
Excerpt kindrunning text
Subject named in excerptyes
Sourcehttps://www.digitalocean.com/security · Primary documentation · retrieved 2 times from 2026-09-02 to 2026-10-03 · every date
Confidence85% - capped at the measured precision of this kind of excerpt (85%, prose), which is below the reader's own precision (87%)
How it was read
Read bytext pattern muster:SOC\s*2\s*(Type\s*)?(II|2)\b
First observed2026-09-02
Last checked2026-10-03
Human reviewnot documented
Source confidence90%
Reader precision87% (measured by hand for this reader)
Excerpt-kind precision85% (measured by hand over 417 statements of this kind)
Confidence interpretationA heuristic informed by source assessment and reader samples, not a calibrated probability that this individual claim is correct.
Audiences and industries the vendor names (2)

These are claims about who the vendor addresses, read off their own pages. They say nothing about how well the product serves that audience.

Gaming VerifiedSmall businesses Verified

Pricing

list · per month
Kubernetes
from USD 12
observed 2026-10-18
Verified
We cannot rate this price yet. The current observation is a starting price ("from"), not a price. A discount against it would compare with a number nobody pays.
Observations 35 2026-09-02 to 2026-10-18, 35 of them a starting price
Lowest recorded Not established 35 observations recorded, but all of them are a starting price ("from"). A starting price is not a price anyone pays, so it cannot establish a low.
Average of observed prices within the 30-day window Not enough history 0 of at least 4 observations
Average of observed prices within the 90-day window Not enough history 0 of at least 4 observations
Average of observed prices within the 365-day window Not enough history 0 of at least 4 observations
source (Primary documentation), retrieved 2026-10-18 · Extracted: ion critical apps to low-traffic sites View Droplet pricing Kubernetes Starting at $12 /month Simple, managed Kubernetes Simple, managed Kubernetes built
list · per month
Droplets
from USD 4
observed 2026-10-18
Verified
We cannot rate this price yet. The current observation is a starting price ("from"), not a price. A discount against it would compare with a number nobody pays.
Observations 35 2026-09-02 to 2026-10-18, 35 of them a starting price
Lowest recorded Not established 35 observations recorded, but all of them are a starting price ("from"). A starting price is not a price anyone pays, so it cannot establish a low.
Average of observed prices within the 30-day window Not enough history 0 of at least 4 observations
Average of observed prices within the 90-day window Not enough history 0 of at least 4 observations
Average of observed prices within the 365-day window Not enough history 0 of at least 4 observations
source (Primary documentation), retrieved 2026-10-18 · Extracted: ucture management Highly scalable View App Platform pricing Droplets Starting at $4 /month Highly-efficient virtual machines Per-sec billing with 60 s
A price is an OBSERVATION on a day, not a fact that gets replaced. Older observations stay; they are the history any statement about a deal rests on.

Evidence

Every documented value links to the page we read it from, with the source tier and the day we retrieved it, in its row under Specifications. “Evidence” in that row opens the excerpt.

Research gaps (26)

These attributes are open in our research. We looked and found no reliable evidence; 322 addresses were checked and are listed below. That is a statement about our research and never about the product.

AttributeStateWhat we checked
Audit log Not yet verified
Checked 3 addresses (40 reads), most recently on 2026-10-18: www.digitalocean.com, www.digitalocean.com/pricing, www.digitalocean.com/security
Entry price per month Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (35 reads), most recently on 2026-10-18: www.digitalocean.com/pricing
EU data residency stated Not yet verified
Checked 3 addresses (28 reads), most recently on 2026-10-18: www.digitalocean.com, www.digitalocean.com/pricing, www.digitalocean.com/security
FedRAMP authorisation Not yet verified
Checked 2 addresses (5 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com, www.digitalocean.com/security
Free trial length Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (35 reads), most recently on 2026-10-18: www.digitalocean.com/pricing
HIPAA compliance stated Not yet verified
Checked 2 addresses (5 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com, www.digitalocean.com/security
Education named as a market Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
Energy or utilities named as a market Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
Financial services named as a market Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
Healthcare named as a market Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
Logistics or supply chain named as a market Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
Manufacturing named as a market Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
Public sector named as a market Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
Retail or e-commerce named as a market Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
ISO/IEC 27001 Not yet verified
Checked 2 addresses (5 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com, www.digitalocean.com/security
Mobile app (iOS or Android) Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
PCI DSS stated Not yet verified
Checked 2 addresses (5 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com, www.digitalocean.com/security
SCIM user provisioning Not yet verified
Checked 4 addresses (42 reads), most recently on 2026-10-18: docs.digitalocean.com, www.digitalocean.com, www.digitalocean.com/pricing, www.digitalocean.com/security
Single sign-on Not yet verified
Checked 3 addresses (40 reads), most recently on 2026-10-18: www.digitalocean.com, www.digitalocean.com/pricing, www.digitalocean.com/security
Uptime commitment Not yet verified
Checked 2 addresses (37 reads), most recently on 2026-10-18: www.digitalocean.com/pricing, www.digitalocean.com/security
Creators named as an audience Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
Enterprises named as an audience Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
Families named as an audience Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
Freelancers named as an audience Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
Remote or hybrid teams named as an audience Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com
Students named as an audience Not yet verified
Checked 1 address (3 reads), most recently on 2026-10-03: www.digitalocean.com

An open attribute describes our research and never the product.

Identifiers

1 in public registers

How this entry is matched to public registers, each with the day we last read it. An identifier says which record we mean, not anything about the vendor or the product.

Buy or ask

Ask DigitalOcean for a demo, a quote or an introduction. Your request is passed on only with your consent.

No integrations documented yet. An absent integration is an absent finding, not evidence that it does not exist.

Alternatives

No documented alternatives yet. A documented alternative rests on a source that names it as one.

Category neighbours

View all 24
These are not documented alternatives. They share a category with this product, which is our inference and not a claim by anyone.

Change history

Full timeline

2026-09-08 1 event

Research update
DigitalOcean: Healthcare named as a market is no longer documented as yes; that value was withdrawn and is now recorded as not measured. This describes our measurement, not a change at the vendor.

2026-09-02 3 events

Research update
DigitalOcean: 2 research updates (Entry price per month, Energy or utilities named as a market).
First price recorded
DigitalOcean: 2 first prices recorded.
First documented
DigitalOcean: 5 attributes documented (GDPR compliance stated, Data processing agreement offered, SOC 2 Type II, Free tier, Public list price).

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