DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Lightweight virtual machines that run a container image in their own kernel and pause when idle.
DigitalOcean MicroVMs runs each sandbox in a Firecracker microVM. It costs $0.022 per vCPU-hour and $0.0085 per GiB-hour, billed per second.
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$0.022
vCPU per hour
$0.0085
RAM per GiB-hour
Not listed
Max session
16 vCPU · 32 GiB
Largest sandbox
DigitalOcean MicroVMs specifications
List prices and limits for DigitalOcean MicroVMs
Pricing
docs- vCPU per hour
- $0.022
- RAM per GiB-hour
- $0.0085
- Storage
- $0.05 per GiB per month, charged when running or paused. Checkpoints are charged until deleted.
- Billing
- Per second
- Free tier
- Not listed
- Paid plan from
- Not listed
Limits
docs- Max session
- Not listed
- Idle stop
- After 5 minutesDefault. Can be set up to 4 hours
- Sandbox size
- 1 vCPU · 2 GiB, 2 vCPU · 4 GiB, 8 vCPU · 16 GiB, 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
- Default size
- Not listed
- Concurrent sandboxes
- Not listed
- Storage
- 50 GB to 400 GB, by size
Platform
docs- Isolation
- Firecracker microVM
- GPU
- Not listed
- Snapshots
- Checkpoints save memory and disk
- Pause and resume
- Keeps memory, files and processes
- Desktop
- Not listed
- Regions
- MKC1Public preview. Regions may expand
Hourly cost
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