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

Private Droplets do not have additional costs beyond standard Droplet pricing.

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 sizes using the API endpoint /v2/sizes or the CLI command doctl compute size list.

v5 Configuration Pricing

In datacenters that support v5 Droplet configurations, the Control Panel displays an hourly price for each resource (vCPU, memory, and boot disk) as you configure the Droplet. These per-resource prices show what each resource contributes to the total. The Droplet itself is billed per second at an hourly rate that is the sum of the configured resources, with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01, whichever is higher.

Unlike bundled plans, v5 Droplets do not have a monthly usage cap. The monthly total for a continuously running v5 Droplet varies based on the number of hours in the month. Because the total reflects the actual hours in each calendar month, we recommend setting up spend alerts that notify you before you reach your target budget.

As you configure a v5 Droplet, the Control Panel shows the per-increment price of each resource. The resources still combine into a single line on your invoice. The rates below show how that total is built:

For example, the s5-8vcpu-16gb-30gb configuration combines 8 shared vCPUs ($0.1265752/hour), 16 GiB of memory ($0.0646576/hour), and a 30 GiB boot disk ($0.004110/hour) for a total of about $0.1953/hour.

Public IPv4 addresses for Droplets with v5 configurations are billed separately from the v5 configuration and appear as their own line item on your invoice. The introductory line-item price is currently $0.00 but is subject to change in accordance with the DigitalOcean Terms of Service.

Bundled CPU Droplet Billing

Bundled-plan CPU Droplets are billed per second with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01, whichever is higher. Usage is capped at 672 hours (28 days) per month. If you create a bundled-plan 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 bundled-plan CPU Droplets that are powered off because the compute resources stay reserved on the hypervisor. To end billing, destroy the Droplet.

On-Demand GPU Droplet Pricing

On-demand GPU Droplet plans are billed at the following hourly rates:

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.

On-Demand GPU Droplet Billing

GPU Droplets 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.

Spot GPU Droplet Pricing public

Spot GPU Droplets provide supported GPU configurations at a variable rate based on available capacity. The Spot GPU Droplet price is always equal to or less than the on-demand price for the same configuration. Spot GPU Droplet prices may change daily.

Spot GPU Droplet Billing public

Spot GPU Droplets use the same per-second billing model as on-demand GPU Droplets, with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01, whichever is higher.

Billing begins when you create the Spot GPU Droplet and ends when you destroy it or DigitalOcean reclaims it. DigitalOcean may reclaim Spot GPU Droplets with at least two hours’ notice.

Contract 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.

Contract GPU Droplet Billing

GPU Droplets 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.