DigitalOcean gives new customers a free \$5 credit, with no credit card required, through its Managed Agents free trial . The credit covers inference on DigitalOcean-hosted models plus the agent runtime and tools around them. It's sized for testing, and Managed Agents is in Public Preview.

Key takeaways :

New DigitalOcean customers get \$5 in free credit, no credit card required, to test inference through Managed Agents.

Trial inference runs on DigitalOcean-hosted models such as Kimi K3, GLM 5.3, and DeepSeek V4 Flash. Frontier models like Claude and GPT bill at list price.

Credit drains as you use compute, storage, and tools, so pause idle sessions and watch your balance.

What the free credit covers

Managed Agents pairs Harness Runtime, which runs agent sessions in isolated Firecracker microVMs, with Action Gateway, which gives agents governed access to 16,000+ tools through one MCP endpoint.…