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The Lytms Index· Application hostingUS region · updated Aug 18, 2026
The Lytms Index / Application hosting / DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

digitalocean.com↗

“Scale inference. Not complexity.” — their own homepage · captured Aug 14, 2026

digitalocean.com
The DigitalOcean homepage as it appeared on Aug 27, 2026
their homepage · captured Aug 27, 2026
Lytms Market Score · 0-100
76
#5 of 37 in application hosting.
No movement reading yet — that needs two comparable dated captures. · updated Aug 18, 2026

Where it stands

One line per signal, each the plain market fact behind the reading — never our number, and never a count of what we checked.

AI answersnamed by Claude, Gemini, Google's AI Mode and Google's AI Overview
Search resultsranks #10 where buyers search
Buyer demand0 searches a month by name
“Container & Cloud Run - Google Cloud Run: Serverless container platform that scales down to zero and handles any language packaged in a Docker container. - Self-Hosted VPS (DigitalOcean, Hetzner): Gives you absolute control using Docker and tools like Dokploy…”
Google's AI Overview · Aug 18, 2026 · asked what to use for application hosting

What it publishes about price

Usage-based cloud platform with multiple product categories, freemium tiers, and custom enterprise options.

read from their own pricing page · captured Aug 14, 2026 · has a free tier

What it has published over time

What this page publishes has changed between Jan 2025 and Aug 2026 — the captures below show how.

Jan 2025$2.37$2.50$2.99$4/mo$5/mo$10/mo
Nov 2025$1.49$1.55$2.37$4/mo$5/mo$10/mo
Aug 2026$1.91$4/mo$5/mo$10/mo$11/mo$12/mo

marked — not visible in the previous capture. Only arrivals are marked: a capture can miss a price that is still on the page, so a point that stops appearing is not something we can call a withdrawal.

the price points visible on digitalocean.com/pricing, from the public archive · a gap in the series is a gap, not a flat line

Compared with

DigitalOcean vs Vercel→DigitalOcean vs Netlify→DigitalOcean vs Render→Alternatives to DigitalOcean→

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The Lytms Index. "DigitalOcean — how the market rates it." Lytms AI. Measured Aug 18, 2026. https://lytms.ai/best/app-hosting/digitalocean

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