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Billing

Validated on 31 March 2020 • Posted on 19 June 2018

DigitalOcean billing cycles are monthly. Your account 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 account’s primary payment method on the first day of each month for the previous month’s usage, or partway through the month if you exceed your account’s usage threshold.

Payment

Paying Your Bill

Pay bills from DigitalOcean using a credit card, debit card, or third-party providers like PayPal or Google Pay.

Manage Payment Methods

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

Late Payments

Our late payment policies for past due accounts and suspended accounts.

Billing Alerts

Set up billing alerts to receive email notifications when your monthly usage exceeds an amount you specify.

Charges

Invoices

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

New customers can redeem a promo code to apply credits to their account.

Taxes by Country

DigitalOcean is required by law to apply taxes for certain countries. Registered businesses in certain locations can enter their VAT or GST IDs to remove those taxes from their monthly bills.

Bandwidth

Consolidated information on bandwidth usage charges for Droplets, Spaces, and DigitalOcean Load Balancers.

Latest Updates

Upcoming Changes

Starting 1 July 2022, some of our pricing is changing. These changes will go into effect for the July bill which customers wlil receive in the 1 August invoice.
- We are introducing a new $4 Droplet with 512MB memory, 10GB SSD Disk, 1 vCPU and 500GB of outbound data transfer.
- We are simplifying pricing for DigitalOcean Kubernetes and some Managed Databases for better accuracy and predictibility.
- Droplets, Snapshots, Load Balancers, Floating IPs, and Custom Images are increasing in price.
There is no change to pricing for Spaces, backups, volumes, DigitalOcean Container Registry, or App Platform. There are also no changes to inbound data transfer or bandwidth pricing.

This is our first major price change in 10 years, and we believe the new model better fits our understanding of our customers and the expanded breadth of our offerings. For a more detailed breakdown of the changes, see our blog post on our new pricing.

1 April 2022

Tax collection has begun for several cities in the United States: Boulder, Colorado Springs, Englewood, and Fort Collins in Colorado, and Chicago in Illinois. Learn more about United States of America taxes.