# DigitalOcean App Platform

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/digitalocean-app-platform/

Managed platform that builds and runs apps from a Git repository or a container image, with per-container pricing and a free tier for static sites.

## Who it suits

Apps deployed from a Git repository or a container image where a flat per-container price is easier to reason about than usage metering — $5 a month buys 1 shared vCPU, 512 MiB and 50 GiB of bandwidth.

Consider something else if The free tier covers static sites only, three apps with no running service, and autoscaling is listed only against the dedicated container sizes — a small service scales by hand or not at all.

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/details/pricing/), read 2026-09-14)
- What the free plan includes: Up to three apps that use only static site components. Anything with a running service falls outside the free tier. ([source](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/details/pricing/), read 2026-09-14)
- Entry paid plan: $5.00 per month for the smallest container: 1 shared vCPU, 512 MiB of RAM and 50 GiB of bandwidth. ([source](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/details/pricing/), read 2026-09-14)

### Limits

- Memory (entry plan): 512 MiB on the $5.00 container, the cheapest paid size; 1 GiB from $10.00. ([source](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/details/pricing/), read 2026-09-14)
- Included bandwidth: 50 GiB a month on the $5.00 container, rising with size to 900 GiB on the largest dedicated one. ([source](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/details/pricing/), read 2026-09-14)

### Infrastructure

- Autoscaling: Limited ([source](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/details/pricing/), read 2026-09-14)
- Regions: Thirteen regions: NYC, AMS, SFO, SGP, LON, FRA, TOR, BLR, SYD, ATL, RIC, MKC and MEM. The availability table marks dynamic and static-site components separately, but those marks are images, so which app type is offered where is not readable as text. ([source](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/details/availability/), read 2026-09-14)
- Uptime SLA: 99.95% monthly uptime, promised separately for each App Platform App Component Instance rather than for the account. Below it, service credits run 10%, 30% and upward as the month gets worse. ([source](https://www.digitalocean.com/sla/app-platform), read 2026-09-14)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: The DigitalOcean account-level support plans, not an App Platform product: free ticket-based support 24/7 for everyone, then Developer $24/month, Standard $99/month with live chat, Premium $999/month with a dedicated Slack channel. ([source](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/support-plans/), read 2026-09-14)
- Response time commitment: Under 8 hours on Developer ($24/month), the cheapest paid support plan; under 24 hours free, under 2 hours on Standard, under 30 minutes on Premium. Account-level and not severity-based. ([source](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/support-plans/), read 2026-09-14)

## Compared with

- [DigitalOcean App Platform vs Render](https://inetgeek.com/compare/digitalocean-app-platform-vs-render/)
- [DigitalOcean App Platform vs Railway](https://inetgeek.com/compare/digitalocean-app-platform-vs-railway/)