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DigitalOcean

Kubernetes (DOKS) — Basic Node

Free control plane. Worker nodes from $12/month.

4.5
specs.json 13 regions · DigitalOcean
from $12.00 /mo

Price published by the provider at digitalocean.com Checked on

compare.specbars · $ analyze --category=managed
benchmark vs peers

How does this plan compare?

Each spec measured against the category median and maximum with percentile and cost per unit.

🎯 Compared against 11 plans in the same price range
Similar price (±50%): $6.00 — $18.00/mo
Storage —
0 med 50 GB max 100 GB
Websites —
0 max 100
Databases —
0 max 1

Estimated latency per region

From 🇪🇸 Spain · best: AMS3 ~15 ms

  • 🇳🇱 Ámsterdam, Netherlands
    AMS3
    Closest ~15 ms · Excellent
  • 🇬🇧 Londres, United Kingdom
    LON1
    ~15 ms · Excellent
  • 🇩🇪 Frankfurt, Germany
    FRA1
    ~25 ms · Excellent
  • 🇺🇸 Nueva York, United States
    NYC1
    ~75 ms · Good
  • 🇺🇸 Nueva York, United States
    NYC3
    ~75 ms · Good
  • 🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada
    TOR1
    ~75 ms · Good
  • 🇮🇳 Bangalore, India
    BLR1
    ~130 ms · Acceptable
  • 🇺🇸 San Francisco, United States
    SFO3
    ~145 ms · Acceptable
  • 🇸🇬 Singapur, Singapore
    SGP1
    ~175 ms · Acceptable
  • 🇦🇺 Sídney, Australia
    SYD1
    ~270 ms · Far
  • 🇺🇸 San Francisco, United States
    SFO2
    —
  • 🇺🇸 Atlanta, United States
    ATL1
    —
  • 🇺🇸 Richmond, United States
    RIC1
    —

Estimates based on public medians (cloudping/wondernetwork). Real latency may vary ±20-40 ms by ISP, hour and BGP route.

features.list 4 items

Included features

  • 01 Free control plane
  • 02 2,000 GiB/node bandwidth pool
  • 03 Cilium Hubble included
  • 04 Autoscaler and H100 GPU available

Price history

No changes since we started tracking · 1 check
1012142026-09-07 · confirmed23 ago7 sept · today
Verified Not verified 1 check Last check: 7 sept
  1. 2026-08-23 12,00 USD www.digitalocean.com Price on catalog entry, not yet verified
infrastructure.config net · support

[support]

level
email
managed
Yes
panel
DO Cloud Console, kubectl, doctl
tco.compute base=$12/mo · setup=$0

Estimated total cost (TCO)

Projection with no plan changes or promos.

1y 12 months
$144
~$12.00/mo
2y 24 months
$288
~$12.00/mo
3y 36 months
$432
~$12.00/mo
diff --editorial --split digitalocean/kubernetes-basic-node
+2 pros −1 cons
01 + Cheaper than EKS/GKE for small clusters
02 + Generous included bandwidth
01 − No spot instances
+2 additions, −1 deletions