Announcing new Basic Premium Droplet plans

By Harsh Banwait

Posted: August 3, 2023•4 min read

At DigitalOcean, we’re always looking to provide more flexibility to startups and small-and-medium businesses (SMBs) so they can better address new use cases for their growing businesses with the power of cloud computing. Basic Premium Droplets, our shared virtual machines—powered by newer AMD EPYC™ and Intel Xeon® CPUs along with superfast NVMe SSDs—are designed to deliver superior performance at an affordable price.

Today, we are excited to announce the expansion of the Basic Premium line of Droplets with new plans that are equipped with enhanced memory and storage options. Like every other Droplet, these new plans will continue to have storage and network transfer bundled with the virtual machines. These new plans will be available in AMS3, BLR1, FRA1, NYC3, SFO3, SYD1 and TOR1 datacenters.**

NEW: Additional plans for Basic Premium Droplets with AMD EPYC™ processors.

Choose from these new plans or any of the existing plans we offer for Basic Premium Droplets with AMD processors.

Processor Type	Memory	vCPUs	Transfer	NVMe SSD	Monthly Price
AMD EPYC™	8 GiB	2	5,000 GiB	100 GiB	$42
AMD EPYC™	16 GiB	4	8,000 GiB	200 GiB	$84
AMD EPYC™	32 GiB	8	10,000 GiB	400 GiB	$162

NEW: Additional plans for Basic Premium Droplets with Intel® Xeon® processors

Choose from these new plans or any of the existing plans we offer for Basic Premium Droplets with Intel® Xeon® processors.

Processor Type	Memory	vCPUs	Transfer	NVMe SSD	Monthly Price
Intel® Xeon®	1 GiB	1	1,000 GiB	35 GiB	$8
Intel® Xeon®	2 GiB	1	2,000 GiB	70 GiB	$16
Intel® Xeon®	2 GiB	2	3,000 GiB	90 GiB	$24
Intel® Xeon®	4 GiB	2	4,000 GiB	120 GiB	$32
Intel® Xeon®	8 GiB	2	5,000 GiB	160 GiB	$48
Intel® Xeon®	8 GiB	4	6,000 GiB	240 GiB	$64
Intel® Xeon®	16 GiB	4	8,000 GiB	320 GiB	$96
Intel® Xeon®	16 GiB	8	9,000 GiB	480 GiB	$128
Intel® Xeon®	32 GiB	8	10,000 GiB	640 GiB	$192

To ensure a simple UI experience, we are limiting the use of six existing Basic Premium Droplet plans to via API and CLI (doctl) only.

Starting today, creation of new Droplets from these plans will not be available via the cloud console. However, existing Droplets will continue to be accessible in the cloud console.

Processor Type	Memory	vCPUs	Transfer	NVMe SSD	Monthly Price
Intel® Xeon®	1 GiB	1	1,000 GiB	25 GiB	$7
Intel® Xeon®	2 GiB	1	2,000 GiB	50 GiB	$14
Intel® Xeon®	2 GiB	2	3,000 GiB	60 GiB	$21
Intel® Xeon®	4 GiB	2	4,000 GiB	80 GiB	$28
Intel® Xeon®	8 GiB	4	6,000 GiB	160 GiB	$56
Intel® Xeon®	16 GiB	8	9,000 GiB	320 GiB	$112

Grow with us

Try the new Basic Premium Droplets today! If you’d like to have a conversation about using DigitalOcean Droplets in your business, please feel free to contact our sales team.