DigitalOcean Droplets Review 2026 — Plans, Specs & SSD
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What are Droplets?
Droplets are the SSD virtual machines from DigitalOcean. There are six categories: Basic (shared CPU), General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, Memory-Optimized, Storage-Optimized and GPU — covering everything from small blogs to AI workloads.
Specs and pricing
Basic Droplets start at $4/mo. Examples: 1 vCPU / 1 GB / 25 GB SSD at $6/mo, 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 80 GB at $24/mo, 4 vCPU / 8 GB / 160 GB at $48/mo, 8 vCPU / 16 GB / 320 GB at $96/mo. Included transfer ranges from 500 GiB up to 6,000 GiB by tier; inbound is free.
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All Droplets use high-performance SSD storage. You can attach block-storage Volumes (from $10/mo) for more space, and use Reserved IPs to redirect traffic between Droplets seamlessly.
1-click apps & Marketplace
The Marketplace offers 1-click installs including WordPress, LAMP, Docker, MySQL, Node.js and MongoDB, so you can launch a stack in minutes without manual setup.
Snapshots & backups
Snapshots are on-demand disk images you can keep indefinitely. Automated backups run weekly and cost 20% of the Droplet price. Free monitoring, alerts and cloud firewalls are included.
Regions
Droplets are available in New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Singapore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, Bangalore and Richmond. Choose Singapore for the lowest latency from Thailand.
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