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DigitalOcean Introduces Agent Droplets: Everything an AI Agent Needs, One Simple Monthly Price<\/b><\/p>\n

Start with DigitalOcean and scale as your business grows: one subscription for compute, memory, storage, inference, and tools<\/i><\/p>\n

BROOMFIELD, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)–
\nDigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DOCN), the AI-Native Cloud, today announced Agent Droplets<\/b> giving companies a simple way to start their agentic journey on DigitalOcean and scale with predictable spending controls. DigitalOcean Managed Agents, launched in public preview on September 22, gave builders a managed runtime, governed access to 16,000+ tools, Serverless Inference, and persistent agent memory and storage on one cloud. Agent Droplets bundle those capabilities into a single monthly subscription simplifying adoption of emerging agent technologies without the guesswork of assembling a stack. Agent Droplets come in two sizes, Pro at $50 a month and Team at $200 a month, with discounts of 15% and 20%, respectively, across all included resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cFourteen years ago a Droplet made the cloud something one developer could understand and afford, and a generation of companies got built on it. The Droplet was never about a server or a VM. It was about the moment you have an idea at 11 p.m. and want it running before you go to sleep. Agents should feel like that. An Agent Droplet is one subscription for everything an agent needs. We take the guesswork out of adopting new agent technologies and managing spend, so companies can start their journey with DigitalOcean and scale it with us. You pick a size and start.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

\n\u2014 Vinay Kumar, Chief Product and Technology Officer, DigitalOcean<\/p>\n

\nAI coding subscriptions often cap usage and charge per seat. DIY agent stacks require multiple vendors, multiple invoices, dozens of pricing units, and a pile of glue code to hold them together. Both approaches are complex, and their costs are hard to predict. Agent Droplets bring essential services together in one plan, simplifying adoption and making spend easier to predict. An AI builder on Pro or a startup team on Team pays one monthly subscription and runs as many agents as the work needs, with resource usage covered by the plan\u2019s allowance. Customers choose whether spending stops at the plan price or continues at list prices once the allowance is used. This gives teams a defined starting budget and an explicit choice about additional spend as workloads grow.<\/p>\n

\nAs companies move from a first agent to production workloads, DigitalOcean provides elastic scale across the agentic primitives their applications depend on: isolated execution, Serverless Inference, persistent memory, session storage, and governed tool access. Agent Droplets simplify how teams adopt and pay for these services, while the underlying platform lets resource consumption grow with workload demand, within their chosen spending controls. Companies can start small and scale on the same cloud.<\/p>\n

What an Agent Droplet bundles<\/b><\/p>\n

\nDevelopers choose an Agent Droplet size to access a bundle of essential agent services, reducing the work of selecting, connecting, and managing each technology separately. The relevant discount applies automatically to the included Managed Agents resources their agents use:<\/p>\n