DigitalOcean App Platform vs. DigitalOcean Droplets
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 DigitalOcean App Platform | Score8 out of 10 | N/A | The DigitalOcean App Platform enables developers to build, deploy, and scale apps on what they describe as a simple, fully managed PaaS. Users of the former Nanobox, acquired by DigitalOcean in 2019, have been migrated to the App Platform upon Nanobox's end of life in March 2021. | $5 per month |
DigitalOcean Droplets | Score8.8 out of 10 | N/A | DigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale. | $4 per month |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.0 | 9.9 |