[dobg24]

BW topic is not related to container registry, but worth mentioning as it is being discussed in this thread. Regarding the outbound data transfer pricing for a $5/month droplet, you get minimum 1TB/month free Internet-bound BW. The price of 0.01/GB kicks in only after that.

Disclaimer - I work for DigitialOcean.

[DanielDent]

There's a really big gap between the $0.01/gb you are talking about being charged on droplets and the $0.10/gb that DigitalOcean is using on newer offerings like this and "App Platform".

https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/container-registry/ - "In the future, each plan will have a bandwidth allowance and additional outbound data transfer (from the registry to the internet) will be $0.10/GiB."

The fact that somebody could put a caching proxy in front of the container registry -- on a droplet also hosted at DigitalOcean -- and have their bandwidth costs fall 10x for doing that does indeed provide further illustration of the absurdity of DigitalOcean's new approach to bandwidth pricing.