Validated on 1 Dec 2025 • Last edited on 13 Jan 2026
Spaces Object Storage is an S3-compatible service for storing and serving large amounts of data. The built-in Spaces CDN minimizes page load times, improves performance, and reduces bandwidth and infrastructure costs.
The base price of a Spaces Standard Storage subscription is $5.00 per month. Each subscription allows you to create multiple Spaces buckets.
Billing begins when you create your first bucket and ends when you destroy all your buckets. If you cancel your subscription by deleting all buckets, your bill is prorated hourly.
For more details and examples of bandwidth billing, see the bandwidth billing page.
The base subscription includes 250 GiB of storage across all of your buckets.
Additional storage beyond this allotment costs $0.02 per GiB per month.
If you destroy all buckets and cancel your subscription, your bill is prorated hourly.
Bandwidth pricing applies to both Spaces Standard Storage and Spaces Cold Storage.
Spaces subscriptions include 1,024 GiB of outbound data transfer (from Spaces buckets to the internet), which is shared between all buckets. Additional outbound transfer is $0.01 per GiB. Outbound data transfer is free in the following cases:
Inbound bandwidth to Spaces never counts against your Spaces transfer allowance.
Droplets have their own transfer allowance, independent of Spaces. Traffic from Droplets to Spaces does not count against your Spaces transfer allowance (because inbound bandwidth to Spaces is free), but does currently count against your Droplets’ outbound transfer allowance.
Invoices include a breakdown of bandwidth usage and cost per Spaces bucket. If you have 100 or more Spaces buckets, you can only view this breakdown in the CSV version of the invoice. To view or download invoices, see our Invoices billing page.
The Spaces Content Delivery Network (CDN) is included at no additional cost. The transfer allowance included with your base subscription covers both CDN and origin bandwidth. Transfer between the origin and edge servers is counted as part of your transfer allowance.
To protect our platform from abuse, we may remove access to Spaces within a week for accounts with unresolved billing issues.
If you are a new DigitalOcean customer and your monthly payment fails, you may lose access to Spaces if payment is not resolved within seven days. For more information, see Late Payments.
Spaces Cold Storage is a low-cost storage class optimized for data that is accessed infrequently and retained for long periods. Pricing reflects the longer minimum retention period requirement and retrieval-based trade-offs.
Cold Storage usage is billed per GiB stored and per GiB retrieved:
Storage: $0.007 per GiB per month.
Retrieval: $0.01 per GiB retrieved.
Retrieval fees are waived for data retrieved up to your average daily Cold Storage usage for the month.
Early Deletion and Update: $0.007 per GiB applies to objects deleted or updated before the 30-day minimum retention period. The first 250 GiB per month are free, and then additional early deletions or updates are billed proportionally per GiB per remaining day of the retention period.
Objects smaller than 128 KiB are billed as 128 KiB. Each read operation incurs a 128 KiB minimum retrieval charge, even for partial or smaller reads. Overwrites count as a delete followed by a recreate.
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