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Isolated Worker Nodes for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) are now in general availability. Every worker node in an isolated cluster runs without a public IPv4 address, so nodes are removed from the public internet at the network level rather …
The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference and Agent Development Kit: Claude Sonnet 5.5 For more information, see the Available Models page.
Valkey 9 is now available for database clusters. New clusters use Valkey 9 by default. Valkey 8 remains available for new and existing clusters. For version support, see Valkey Limits.
The following NVIDIA model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference and Agent Development Kit: Nemotron 3 Diarization For more information, see the Available Models page.
The following TypeSafe AI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for inference: Jev For more information, see the Available Models page.
VPC subnets and routes are now in public preview. Subnets let you add IP ranges to an existing VPC network, and resources in a VPC’s subnets can reach each other. Routes let you direct a subnet’s traffic to targets you manage, such as a …
The following OpenAI models are now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference: GPT-6 Sol GPT-6 Luna For more information, see the Available Models page.
The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Claude Opus 5.5 For more information, see the Available Models page.
Managed Agents is now available in public preview for all users. Managed Agents is a set of services that gives every agent its own microVM execution environment and governed tool access so that developers can scale agentic work without …
PostgreSQL Advanced Edition and MySQL Advanced Edition managed database clusters are now generally available. To create an Advanced Edition cluster, see How to Create PostgreSQL Database Clusters or How to Create MySQL Database Clusters.
The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash For more information, see the Available Models page.
The DigitalOcean Control Panel now supports adding and removing allow and deny rules based on IP addresses and CIDR ranges when you create or manage regional load balancers that use HTTP or Network traffic management. See How to Create …
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Spot GPU node pools in public preview. You can run worker nodes on interruptible Spot GPU capacity for AMD Instinct MI350X and MI355X and NVIDIA B300 GPUs, at a lower, variable rate than on-demand …
The following models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 8 September 2026: Kimi K2.5 GLM 5 GLM-5.1 Nemotron-3-Super-120B (Public Preview) Migrate Kimi K2.5 to Kimi K3 (kimi-k3), GLM 5 and GLM-5.1 to GLM-5.3 (glm-5.3), and …
The following OpenAI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: GPT-6 Astra For more information, see the Available Models page.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Isolated Worker Nodes in public preview. Every worker node in an isolated cluster runs without a public IPv4 address, so nodes are removed from the public internet at the network level rather than …
The peer-to-peer OCI registry plugin for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) is now in general availability. The plugin uses Spegel to mirror container image layers across cluster nodes, so a node can pull layers from a peer that already has …
The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Claude Fable 5.1 For more information, see the Available Models page.
The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: GLM-5.3 For more information, see the Available Models page.
The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: GLM-5.3 Flash For more information, see the Available Models page.
v5 Droplet configurations are now available in the atl1, ric1, mkc1, and mem1 datacenters. They run on 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors for higher per-core performance and let you size compute, memory, storage, and networking …
Updated NVIDIA AI/ML Ready (gpu-h100x1-base, gpu-h100x8-base) Droplet base images are now available in the Control Panel and through the API. The images are based on Ubuntu 24.04 (upgraded from Ubuntu 22.04) and include NVIDIA driver …
Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B model available on DigitalOcean Inference has been upgraded to Qwen3.8-Max. Qwen3.8-Max supports vision and video input and a 1M-token context window. For more information, see the Available Models page.
Inference Router now uses cache-aware routing to maximize prompt cache reuse and automatically applies prompt caching to eligible Anthropic requests. You can opt out of prompt caching for supported models with X-Model-Affinity: none and …
The following open-source models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 18 August 2026: Llama 3.3 Instruct-70B DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B Qwen3-32B Qwen3 Coder Flash Migrate Llama 3.3 Instruct-70B to Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E …
The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 For more information, see the Available Models page.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) drivers for NVIDIA and AMD GPU node pools in public preview, starting with DOKS 1.36.3-do.0. DRA is an opt-in alternative to the managed GPU device plugins. …
The following Alibaba model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B For more information, see the Available Models page.
The following Alibaba model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Public Preview) For more information, see the Available Models page.
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) paid plans support Managed Rules, which let you enable or disable CSPM rules for your entire team. To exclude specific resources while keeping a rule enabled for the rest of the team, suppress …
We have launched the Memphis, Tennessee, USA (mem1) datacenter, which supports AMD Instinct MI355X Spot GPU Droplets and many other products. For the full list of supported products, see the regional availability matrix.
Spot GPU Droplets are now available in public preview for supported GPUs in single-GPU and 8-GPU configurations. Pricing may change daily based on capacity. To compare the capacity tiers, see Spot GPU Droplets vs On-Demand GPU Droplets.
DigitalOcean Container Registry (DOCR) now provides mirror registries: DigitalOcean-curated regional mirrors of popular AI container images, available in 11 datacenter regions. You can pull nvidia/pytorch and rocm/pytorch images from a …
AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs are now available in MEM1 as Spot GPU Droplets in 1- and 8-GPU configurations. Spot prices vary daily based on available capacity. For pricing, see Spot GPU Droplet pricing.
DigitalOcean has patched “Safe RET” across our AMD Droplet fleet. We applied the fix at the infrastructure level, and no customer action is required. For more information, see AMD’s security bulletin, AMD-SB-7061.
The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 For more information, see the Available Models page.
Spend alerts are now generally available for teams and organizations, replacing billing alerts. You can create multiple alerts with incremental percentage thresholds, scoped to total spend, specific products, or, for organizations, specific …
The following Anthropic model is deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 5 August 2026: Claude Opus 4.1 Migrate to Claude Opus 4.8 (anthropic-claude-opus-4.8) to avoid service disruption. For information on our model deprecation policy …
We have launched the Kansas City, Missouri, USA (mkc1) datacenter, which supports GPU Droplets, Kubernetes, Managed Databases, Spaces object storage, App Platform, Functions, and many other products. For the full list of supported products, …
Cloud firewall rules now support an action of allow or deny. Deny rules let you block traffic from specific sources, such as known malicious IP addresses, while allowing broader access to your services. Deny rules take precedence over allow …
PostgreSQL Advanced Edition clusters now support sslmode=verify-full for full TLS certificate verification. For setup, see How to Connect to PostgreSQL Database Clusters and Increase TLS Verification with sslmode.
Kafka versions 3.9 and 4.1 are now available for database clusters. New clusters use Kafka 4.1 by default. For version support and Kafka 3.8 end of availability, see Kafka Limits.
OpenSearch 3.3 and 3.6 are now available for database clusters. New clusters use OpenSearch 2.19 by default.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now includes an optional peer-to-peer OCI registry plugin in public preview. The plugin uses Spegel to mirror container image layers across cluster nodes, so a node can pull layers from a peer that already has …
The following Moonshot AI model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Kimi K3 For more information, see the Available Models page.
The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Claude Opus 5 For more information, see the Available Models page.
We have updated the following buildpack for App Platform: Node.js buildpack: We added the following Node.js versions and updated the buildpack to version 342. Visit the Node.js buildpack to learn more about specifying a Node.js engine …
We now support prompt caching for Gemma 4 for serverless inference.
The server-side model synthesis tool is available in public preview on DigitalOcean Inference. The model synthesis tool is an API-only multi-model tool that runs up to eight analysis models in parallel on the same task, compares their …
The server-side model synthesis tool is available in public preview on DigitalOcean Inference. The model synthesis tool is an API-only multi-model tool that runs up to eight analysis models in parallel on the same task, compares their …
Released v1.164.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release adds commands for managing Secrets Manager secrets and Network File Storage access points.
The following OpenAI model is deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 23 July 2026: GPT-5.1-Codex-Max Migrate to GPT-5.3-Codex (openai-gpt-5.3-codex) to avoid service disruption. For information on our model deprecation policy and …
The Gradient AI TypeScript SDK is deprecated. Use the official DigitalOcean TypeScript SDK (DoTs) or the DigitalOcean API directly. For installation and quickstart examples, see SDK and Client Libraries.
The Gradient AI Go Library is deprecated. Use the official DigitalOcean Go SDK (Godo) or the DigitalOcean API directly. For installation and quickstart examples, see SDK and Client Libraries.
The Gradient AI Python SDK is deprecated. Use the official DigitalOcean Python SDK (PyDo) or the DigitalOcean API directly. For installation and quickstart examples, see SDK and Client Libraries.
Managed databases are available in Kansas City (mkc1) with limited plan availability. Premium AMD plans and General Purpose MongoDB clusters are not available in this region. See the regional availability matrix for current coverage by …
PostgreSQL Standard Edition clusters now support sslmode=verify-full for full TLS certificate verification. For setup, see How to Connect to PostgreSQL Database Clusters and Increase TLS Verification with sslmode.
The following OpenAI models are now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference: GPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5.6 Terra GPT-5.6 Luna For more information, see the Available Models page.
Ubuntu 25.10 has reached end of life. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now supports automatic node remediation in public preview. DOKS can automatically replace worker nodes that stay unhealthy, based on Kubernetes node conditions and rules you define. The Data Plane Operator …
DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) now runs a node readiness controller in public preview. The controller watches node conditions and holds NoSchedule taints on nodes until required components, including GPU drivers on GPU nodes, report …
Invoice and Billing Insights CSV files now include a tag_name column that lists the tags applied to each resource. Tag information is included only for resource usage on or after 1 July 2026.
The Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (ubuntu-26-04-x64) base image is now available in the control panel and via the API.
Prompt caching for open-source models in serverless inference chat completions and responses API is now in public preview. Open-source models cache context automatically, so you do not need to set the cache_control or prompt_cache_retention …
DigitalOcean Managed Weaviate is now in public preview and enabled for all users. Weaviate is a fully managed vector database for retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search workloads. Create clusters from the Vector Databases page, …
Claude Fable 5 is available again on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents. For more information, see the Available Models page.
The Agent Evaluations MCP server tool has been renamed to Evaluations.
DigitalOcean Managed Valkey database clusters now support custom CNAME records, allowing clients to connect through your own hostname instead of the default *.db.ondigitalocean.com address. Custom CNAMEs are available through the API when …
Agent evaluations support for the Agent Development Kit (ADK), previously in preview, is now removed. To evaluate agents, use agent evaluations via the DigitalOcean Control Panel for supported agent types. To monitor ADK agent behavior, use …
The following agent evaluation metrics are deprecated and should no longer be used: Tone Retrieved Chunk Usage Prompt Perplexity Use the currently supported metrics listed in Agent Evaluation Metrics instead. To monitor deployed agent …
DigitalOcean Evaluations is now generally available. Use Evaluations to create test cases, run evaluation datasets, and measure model performance against selected metrics.
Private Droplets are now generally available in all regions. Private Droplets have no public network interface and no public IP address, using VPC-only networking with automatic integration with VPC NAT gateway, VPC peering, and VPC private …
Custom metrics are now available for DigitalOcean Evaluations. You can define your own metrics to evaluate model behavior against criteria specific to your use case.
The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Claude Sonnet 5 For more information, see the Available Models page.
Model Evaluations is now renamed to DigitalOcean Evaluations.
Presets are now available for DigitalOcean Evaluations. You can save and reuse evaluation configurations, including the candidate model, system prompt, hyperparameters, judge model, and metrics.
Insights, agent tracing, and conversation logs are deprecated for all agents, including agents created through the Control Panel, CLI, API, and Agent Development Kit (ADK). To monitor deployed agent behavior, use Agent Metrics and Runtime …
Serverless Inference now requires a positive prepaid account balance before you can send inference requests. Usage charges are deducted from this balance, and access is suspended if it reaches $0. You can add a prepayment manually or enable …
The DigitalOcean Control Panel now supports light and dark themes. From the profile menu in the top right corner of the control panel, you can set your theme to a light or dark appearance, or match your operating system’s appearance …
You can now attach Network File Storage shares to multiple VPC networks, and expose specific subdirectories to single VPC networks by creating access points. A share can connect to up to 10 VPC networks in the same region. Access points …
Released v1.163.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release adds a vector-databases command group for managing vector databases.
A Fedora 44 (fedora-44-x64) Droplet base image is now available in the Control Panel and through the API.
The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: GLM-5.1 For more information, see the Available Models page.
Single sign-on (SSO) with OIDC for DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS) clusters is now in general availability. You can authenticate users to your Kubernetes clusters through an identity provider like Auth0, authentik, JumpCloud, Keycloak, or …
The following Z.ai model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: GLM-5.2 For more information, see the Available Models page.
To comply with Peru’s tax regulation for digital services, DigitalOcean charges Value Added Tax (VAT) for customers with a tax location in Peru, beginning on 1 June 2026. These charges appear on invoices issued on and after 1 July 2026. …
DigitalOcean Inference supports server-side tools on serverless inference, dedicated inference, and inference routers. You can add the following tools: Web search, web fetch, knowledge base retrieval, and remote MCP server tools to your …
The following Xiaomi model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: MiMo-V2.5-Pro For more information, see the Available Models page.
Updated CentOS Stream 9 and CentOS Stream 10 (centos-stream-9-x64, centos-stream-10-x64) Droplet base images require a minimum Droplet size of s-1vcpu-1gb. You cannot create Droplets with these images on the s-1vcpu-512mb-10gb plan because …
Released v1.162.0 of doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI. This release adds support for the PostgreSQL and MySQL Advanced Edition engines, advanced_pg and advanced_mysql, in the databases commands.
The following Anthropic models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 15 June 2026: Claude Opus 4 Claude Sonnet 4 Migrate to Claude Opus 4.8 (anthropic-claude-opus-4.8) and Claude Sonnet 4.6 (anthropic-claude-4.6-sonnet), …
Claude Fable 5 is no longer available on DigitalOcean Inference. Access to all other Anthropic models remains available. For more information, see the Anthropic statement on Claude Fable 5.
The following Xiaomi model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: MiMo-V2.5 For more information, see the Available Models page.
Debian 12 reached end of life on 10 June 2026. Per our image deprecation policy, this image is available exclusively via the API for the next 30 days before we remove it from our platform.
We support passthrough tool search on the Messages API for Anthropic models and the Responses API for OpenAI models, enabling deferred loading of tools in agentic workflows. There is no additional cost to using tool search. For more …
The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference, dedicated inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents: Claude Fable 5 For more information, see the Available Models page.
Managed MySQL 8.0 database clusters are scheduled for forced upgrades to MySQL 8.4 beginning 30 October 2026 during each cluster’s maintenance window.