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Droplet pricing depends on the plan type. CPU and GPU Droplets use different plan catalogs and rates. The sections below describe billing and list prices for each plan type.

CPU Droplet Pricing

You can view a full list of the CPU Droplet plans we offer and their prices on the CPU Droplets pricing page:

DigitalOcean CPU Droplet Pricing

Hourly and monthly pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets, including all plans and CPU options.

You can retrieve a list of available Droplet plans using the API endpoint /v2/sizes or the CLI command doctl compute size list.

CPU Droplet Billing

CPU Droplets are billed per second with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01, whichever is higher. If you create a CPU Droplet and destroy it in less than 60 seconds, you are still charged the minimum.

Billing begins when you create the Droplet and ends when you destroy it. You are still billed for CPU Droplets that are powered off because the compute resources stay reserved on the hypervisor. To end billing, destroy the Droplet.

GPU Droplet Pricing

Per-contract GPU plans use size slugs that do not appear in the self-service GET /v2/sizes response. Provision them through your sales agreement.

If you are a newer DigitalOcean customer, we may charge your team’s primary payment method partway through the monthly billing cycle when you create GPU Droplets, but your total cost is not increased. This is a precautionary measure to prevent abuse of our platform.

GPU Droplet Billing

GPU Droplets follow the same billing model as CPU Droplets. They are billed per second with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01, whichever is higher.

Billing begins when you create the GPU Droplet and ends when you destroy it. You are still billed for GPU Droplets that are powered off. The GPU and other compute resources stay reserved on the hypervisor even when the Droplet is not running. Powering off a GPU Droplet does not stop billing. To end billing, destroy the GPU Droplet.

Bandwidth Billing

Each Droplet plan includes an amount of free outbound data transfer. Additional outbound transfer is billed at $0.01 per GiB. Inbound transfer to Droplets is free.

Transfer allowance and usage is pooled cumulatively across all Droplets at the team level, not individually per Droplet. Accrued transfer does not roll over between months and cannot be transferred between teams.

Any data transfer sent by a Droplet using a public network interface counts against the transfer pool for that Droplet’s team. All IPv6 traffic uses the public interface. Data transfer between Droplets over the VPC network uses a private network interface. We do not bill for outbound data transfer that we determine is dropped by a DigitalOcean firewall rule.

In the Droplet Transfer (Bandwidth) Overview section of the team billing page, you can view usage data and projections about your team’s transfer pool, updated daily. We base projections on the assumption that your team maintains the same daily averages for both quantity of active Droplets and bandwidth usage through the end of the billing cycle.

You can calculate bandwidth costs using our Droplet bandwidth calculator.

For more details and examples of bandwidth billing for Droplets, see the bandwidth billing page.