$5 a month for the cheapest option?
I mean, the cheapest Droplet is $5 a month with 1GB of Memory, 1 vCPU, 1TB transfer and 25GB storage. While the same tier of App Platform only gives you 512MiB of Memory and 40GiB Outbound transfer, plus you have to pay extra for the storage/db.
Why the price varied this much? Kubernetes was that expensive?