DigitalOcean Release Notes

Available Models

The following models are now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform for serverless inference and Agent Development Kit:

• Claude Opus 4.5
• Claude Opus 4.1
• Claude Sonnet 4.5

For more information, see the Available Models page.

Knowledge base chunking and retrieval

Knowledge base chunking and retrieval are now in public preview. Chunking splits your documents into smaller units before indexing, and existing data sources default to section-based chunking. You can update chunking settings in the control panel or via the API, and retrieve recent chunks using the retrieval endpoint. For more details, see the API reference and chunking best practices.

The Spend by Date Range report is now available on the Insights tab. It shows your daily spend over a custom date range, grouped by product with top resources listed, and is also available through the /v2/billing/{account_urn}/insights endpoint of the DigitalOcean API.

Gradient AI Platform also now supports the Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B (Multilingual) model from Alibaba Qwen in public preview. Select this model for multilingual indexing workflows. Learn more on the embedding models page.

The Agent Development Kit (ADK) is now available in public preview. For more information, see Use ADK to Build, Test, and Deploy Agents.

Remote MCP servers are now available, providing API-based access for AI tools to manage DigitalOcean resources.

We now support adding crypto wallets as a stored payment method. Access to the crypto payment method is currently limited and may not be available to all customers in all locations.

DigitalOcean Spaces Cold Storage is now generally available across supported regions

Cold Storage provides low-cost, petabyte-scale storage for infrequently accessed data. These buckets are optimized for long-term retention and have feature and performance limitations compared to Standard Storage. For full details, see the Cold Storage documentation.

Usage-based backups plans are now in general availability.

Features

• We now support Auth0, authentik, JumpCloud, and Keycloak as identity providers for single sign-on.

Data Center

• Network File Storage is now available in the NYC2 datacenter.