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DigitalOcean Load Balancers pricing and limits

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Managed load balancers billed per node per month, where a node is a fixed block of throughput rather than a usage meter.

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Entry paid plan$12 a month for a regional load balancer with one node. The only member of this category priced monthly rather than hourly, and the only one where the entry price is a round number rather than a fraction of a cent.
RegionsAvailable in all 16 DigitalOcean datacentres — NYC1, NYC2, NYC3, AMS3, SFO2, SFO3, SGP1, LON1, FRA1, TOR1, BLR1, SYD1, ATL1, RIC1, MKC1 and MEM1 — which the same page states are "16 datacenters across 13 regions". Recorded as 13, the region count, because NYC1/2/3 and SFO2/3 are multiple datacentres inside one region and this column measures regions. Availability is published per product per datacentre rather than assumed from the region list, and Load Balancers reach every one of them.
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DigitalOcean Load Balancers pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
$12 a month for a regional load balancer with one node source ↗
Pricing model
Per node, added and removed as you go, up to 100 of them source ↗

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01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Knowing the bill in advance. $12 a month buys one node and a node is a fixed 10,000 requests per second — capacity that steps rather than meters, which is the only genuinely forecastable pricing in this category.

Consider something else if…

Your traffic is spiky or small. A node is bought whole, so half a node of traffic costs a whole node, and the ceiling is 100 nodes rather than an elastic limit.

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DigitalOcean Load Balancers pricing

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Entry paid plan$12 a month for a regional load balancer with one node. The only member of this category priced monthly rather than hourly, and the only one where the entry price is a round number rather than a fraction of a cent.
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Pricing modelPer node, added and removed as you go, up to 100 of them. Each node is a fixed quantum of capacity rather than a meter, so the bill steps rather than tracking traffic — which makes it forecastable in a way per-hour and per-GB pricing is not, and wasteful if a node sits half-used.
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Infrastructure

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RegionsAvailable in all 16 DigitalOcean datacentres — NYC1, NYC2, NYC3, AMS3, SFO2, SFO3, SGP1, LON1, FRA1, TOR1, BLR1, SYD1, ATL1, RIC1, MKC1 and MEM1 — which the same page states are "16 datacenters across 13 regions". Recorded as 13, the region count, because NYC1/2/3 and SFO2/3 are multiple datacentres inside one region and this column measures regions. Availability is published per product per datacentre rather than assumed from the region list, and Load Balancers reach every one of them.
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Inference

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Rate limits10,000 requests per second per node, alongside 10,000 simultaneous connections and 250 SSL connections per second. Capacity is bought in these blocks, so the way to more throughput is another node rather than a larger bill for the same one.
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Caching

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Multi-region replicationThree types are offered — Regional, Global and Network — with the $12 entry price attached to the Regional one. The page names the three but prices only Regional here.
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Compliance

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SOC 2DigitalOcean is AICPA SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 Type II certified.
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GDPR / data residencyDigitalOcean is GDPR compliant and we show it through our actions.
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DigitalOcean Load Balancers pricing questions

How much does DigitalOcean Load Balancers cost?

$12 a month for a regional load balancer with one node. The only member of this category priced monthly rather than hourly, and the only one where the entry price is a round number rather than a fraction of a cent.

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How does DigitalOcean Load Balancers charge?

Per node, added and removed as you go, up to 100 of them. Each node is a fixed quantum of capacity rather than a meter, so the bill steps rather than tracking traffic — which makes it forecastable in a way per-hour and per-GB pricing is not, and wasteful if a node sits half-used.

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