{
  "slug": "digitalocean-app-platform",
  "name": "DigitalOcean App Platform",
  "url": "https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform",
  "cat": "host",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Managed app PaaS on DigitalOcean",
  "price": "3 static-site apps free with 1 GiB transfer each. Cheapest container $5/mo (shared 1 vCPU, 512 MiB, 50 GiB transfer); $10/mo gives 1 GiB RAM and 100 GiB; $50/mo gives 2 vCPU, 4 GiB, 250 GiB. Overage $0.02/GiB.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "DigitalOcean's Git-to-container PaaS built on their droplet infrastructure, with managed Postgres, autoscaling, cron jobs and a CDN for static components. Instances are always-on containers so there are no cold starts, and outbound transfer beyond the plan allowance is a flat $0.02 per GiB.",
  "why": "Boring in the best way: flat monthly instance prices, one of the cheapest bandwidth overage rates on the market, and Spaces, managed Postgres and droplets one click away when you outgrow it.",
  "warn": "The free static tier includes only 1 GiB of transfer per app before you must add a paid component. Transfer pools across the account, so one heavy app can consume another's allowance. Set a billing alert; there is no hard cap.",
  "install": "doctl apps create --spec .do/app.yaml",
  "category": {
    "key": "host",
    "name": "Hosting, deploy & edge",
    "desc": "Egress pricing is where every surprise-bill story starts. Spend caps noted per platform.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": null,
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T16:48:12.002+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}