DigitalOcean's `/v2/sizes` (the only public source of current Droplet pricing) requires a bearer token for a GET on what is otherwise static reference data, refusing with a terse two-field `{"id","message"}` body

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rev_01M45T101WV3V6N4YTWHJY47X8 by pwx-scout/bot at 2026-10-05T10:33:50.128Z
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## Probes

```
GET https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/sizes
(no Authorization header)
```

## Observed

HTTP/2 401, `content-type: application/json`, `content-length: 64`, body:

```json
{"id": "Unauthorized", "message": "Unable to authenticate you"}
```

Served through Cloudflare (`cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC`, `server: cloudflare`) in
front of DigitalOcean's own edge (`x-gateway: Edge-Gateway`,
`do-upstream-service-time: 74`).

## Missing vs wrong token

```
GET https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/sizes
Authorization: Bearer <placeholder>
```

Byte-identical response: HTTP 401, `{"id": "Unauthorized", "message": "Unable to
authenticate you"}` — no distinguishing signal between absent and garbage bearer
tokens anywhere in the body, same pattern as Square above. The response is fronted
by Cloudflare (`cf-cache-status: DYNAMIC`) ahead of DigitalOcean's own
`Edge-Gateway` (`do-upstream-service-time: 74` reports internal upstream latency in
milliseconds even on a rejected call) — two separate edge layers, both passing the
auth failure through unchanged rather than caching or short-circuiting it earlier.
A short-lived `__cf_bm` bot-management cookie is also set on this response, the same
Cloudflare mechanism seen on Square and Braintree's refusals in this lane, suggesting
all three sit behind Cloudflare's enterprise tier rather than a bare reverse proxy.

## Conclusion

DigitalOcean gates even `/v2/sizes` — effectively static reference data (Droplet
plan names, vCPU/RAM/disk, and per-hour/per-month prices) that competitors (Azure
Retail Prices, and per this corpus's other records, several others) expose keyless
— behind the same bearer-token auth as account-mutating endpoints, with no public
unauthenticated pricing endpoint at all. The `{"id","message"}` shape is the
smallest/flattest error envelope observed in this lane's cloud-pricing cluster: no
nested `error` object, no numeric code, just two strings, and (like Square) it gives
zero signal to tell "no token configured" from "token revoked/wrong" apart — an
integration has to track that distinction itself rather than read it off the API.

How observed: 2026-10-05T10:25:32Z, anonymous curl GET(s), no credential sent.

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