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DigitalOcean billing cycles are monthly. Your balance accrues over the course of the calendar month based on the cost of the resources you use. We are also required by law to apply taxes for certain countries.

We automatically invoice and charge your team’s or organization’s primary payment method on the first day of each month for the previous month’s usage, or partway through the month when your balance reaches your tier’s auto-charge amount.

For consolidated billing, payment, and invoicing, you can group related teams into an organization, and view detailed spend breakdowns by team.

Payment

How to Pay Your Bill

Pay bills from DigitalOcean using a credit card, debit card, crypto wallet, third-party provider (like PayPal, Google Pay, or Apple Pay), or a bank account.

How to Manage Payment Methods on DigitalOcean

How to add, edit, and remove payment methods on your team, including credit cards, debit cards, crypto wallets, and third-party providers.

Late Payments

Our late payment policies for past due accounts, suspended accounts, and permanent resource deletion.

Spend Alerts

Set up spend alerts to receive email notifications when your monthly spending crosses percentage thresholds of a budget you define.

Charges

Invoices

Invoices list the charges a team has accrued in a given monthly billing cycle.

Billing Cost Analysis

Daily spend by date range and near-real-time Serverless Inference cost estimates, available on the Cost Analysis tab of the Billing page and through the DigitalOcean API.

Signup Credit

Automatic signup credit for your first team.

Tax Information by Country

We are required by law to apply taxes for certain countries depending on the associated team’s tax location. Registered businesses in certain locations can enter a VAT or GST IDs to remove those taxes from their monthly bills.

Bandwidth Billing

Consolidated information on bandwidth usage charges for Droplets and other DigitalOcean products.

Pricing Overview

Pricing details for all DigitalOcean products.

Reference

Billing API and CLI Reference

Use the DigitalOcean API and official CLI client, doctl, to programmatically retrieve your balance, invoices, and billing history.

DigitalOcean MCP Server Reference

Use the DigitalOcean MCP Server to view and manage account details, billing history, SSH keys, and balances with the DigitalOcean MCP Server.

Latest Updates

7 October 2026

• The Cost Analysis tab of the Billing page now includes Serverless Inference Live Usage, which lists the estimated cost and token counts of your Serverless Inference requests by model and model access key, for both teams and organizations. Data refreshes every 10 minutes and covers the last 30 days. For more information, see View Serverless Inference Live Usage.

1 October 2026

• You can now prepay for Serverless Inference and Managed Agents with the Inference and Agents balance, which no other products draw from. Add $5 to $500 at a time or turn on auto-reload from the Billing page. Funds do not expire. You can also pay for eligible usage at a discount with a monthly plan, now in public preview. See Inference and Agents Balance and How to Pay for Harness Runtime.

5 August 2026

• Spend alerts are now generally available for teams and organizations, replacing billing alerts. You can create multiple alerts with incremental percentage thresholds, scoped to total spend, specific products, or, for organizations, specific teams. Notifications arrive within an hour of your spend crossing a threshold.

  Existing billing alerts have been migrated to the Spend alerts page as an alert named Account Spend Alert.

For more information, see the full release notes.