Resource Limits for Teams and Products
Last verified 22 Jun 2026
To manage compute capacity and risks, and ensure fair resource distribution, DigitalOcean sets resource limits. Each resource limit caps a product, such as the number of Droplets, GPU Droplets, inference usage, database clusters, and so on. Limits apply per team or per product.
As a team owner or resource modifier, you can view resource usage and increase limits for products in your team.
See Droplet plans for details on Droplet choices and plans we offer.
| Tier | Droplet Count | Droplet Types | GPU Droplets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 3 | Basic Shared CPU Droplets, up to $48 | 0 |
| Tier 2 | 10 | Basic Shared CPU Droplets, up to $56 Some Dedicated CPU Droplets, up to $84 |
1 |
| Tier 3 | 15 | All Basic Shared CPU Droplets Larger selection of Dedicated CPU Droplets, up to $163 |
2 |
| Tier 4 | 25 | All Droplets | 4 |
| Tier 5 | 100 | All Droplets | 16 |
Quotas are scoped per account.
| Tier | Spend Limits | Agents | Knowledge Bases | Requests Per Minute (RPM) | Tokens Per Minute (TPM) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | $25 | 15 | 15 | 120 | 500K-750K |
| Tier 2 | $50 | 60 | 60 | 120 | 500K-750K |
| Tier 3 | $250 | 60 | 60 | 600 | 800K-2M |
| Tier 4 | $1,000 | 60 | 60 | 600 | 800K-2M |
| Tier 5 | $4,000 | 120 | 120 | 4,500 | 3.5M-70M |
If you are in Tier 1, we invoice you at $25 increments. If you pay the invoice, we let you continue inferencing. Else, you can upgrade your tier by prepaying. If you don’t pay or don’t upgrade by prepaying, inferencing is paused.
All tiers, except Tier 1 and Tier 2, have access to all models. Tier 1 and Tier 2 do not have access to any Anthropic models and OpenAI models (except gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b).
See Inference Limits for additional details.
Regional Load Balancer
| Tier | Count | Nodes Per Instance |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Tier 2 | 5 | 6 |
| Tier 3 | 15 | 25 |
| Tier 4 | 15 | 25 |
| Tier 5 | 50 | 60 |
Network Regional Load Balancer
| Tier | Nodes Per Instance | Autoscaler |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Tier 2 | 6 | 2 |
| Tier 3 | 10 | 3 |
| Tier 4 | 25 | 5 |
| Tier 5 | 100 | 10 |
Global Load Balancer(GLB)
| Tier | Count | Certificates |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 0 | 10 |
| Tier 2 | 1 | 20 |
| Tier 3 | 1 | 50 |
| Tier 4 | 2 | 200 |
| Tier 5 | 50 | 200 |
| Product | Count | |
|---|---|---|
| Domains | Tier 1: 6 Tier 2: 15 Tier 3: 30 Tier 4: 100 Tier 5: 500 |
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| VPC Peering | Tier 1: 0 Tier 2: 1 Tier 3: 1 Tier 4: 5 Tier 5: 10 |
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| Reserved (Floating) IP | Tier 1: 3 Tier 2: 10 Tier 3: 15 Tier 4: 25 Tier 5: 75 |
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| Reserved IPv6 | Tier 1: 6 Tier 2: 15 Tier 3: 30 Tier 4: 100 Tier 5: 500 |
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| BYOIP | Tier 1: 0 Tier 2: 0 Tier 3: 0 Tier 4: 0 Tier 5: 2 |
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| VPC Partner Network Connect | Tier 1: 2 Tier 2: 4 Tier 3: 6 Tier 4: 10 Tier 5: 10 Bandwidth (Mbps): Tier 1: 50,000 Tier 2: 50,000 Tier 3: 50,000 Tier 4: 50,000 Tier 5: 50,000 |
| Tier | Global Capacity TiB | Size per Volume TiB | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 1 | ~0.1 (100 GiB) | 5,000 |
| Tier 2 | 2 | ~0.1 (100 GiB) | 5,000 |
| Tier 3 | 3 | 3 | 5,000 |
| Tier 4 | 16 | 16 | 5,000 |
| Tier 5 | 25 | 16 | 5,000 |