Billing Release Notes

December 2024

9 December

• We now support Alipay as a payment method.

August 2024

1 August

• Invoices now 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.

May 2024

3 May

• You can now add purchase orders to your team to include purchase order information on your monthly invoices and track usage against your purchase orders.

July 2023

27 July

• We now support ACH direct debit payments for qualifying customers with U.S. bank accounts. Learn more about managing payment methods on DigitalOcean.

1 July

• We no longer bill for outbound data transfer that we determine is dropped by a DigitalOcean firewall rule. Learn more about bandwidth billing.

September 2022

27 September

• Users who sign up for DigitalOcean through the referral program now receive a $200 account credit, increased from $100.

July 2022

26 July

• You can now set up automatic recurring payments with PayPal. You can still log in to make one time payments with PayPal. Learn more about how to pay your bill.

1 July

• The following pricing changes are now in effect:

  • A new $4 Droplet with 512MB of memory, 10GB of storage, 1 vCPU, and 500GB of outbound data transfer is now available in NYC1, FRA1, SFO3, SGP1, and AMS3. The slug is s-1vcpu-512mb-10gb.

  • We have simplified pricing for DigitalOcean Kubernetes and some managed databases for better accuracy and predictibility.

  • The prices of Droplets, Snapshots, Load Balancers, Reserved IPs, and Custom Images have increased.

  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.

December 2021

8 December

• We now support adding Google Pay as a stored payment method for Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Brave, Microsoft Edge).

October 2021

27 October

• We now support Google Pay for one-time payments.

September 2021

28 September

• Team members with the biller role no longer have view-only access to a team’s shared resources. Billers have full access to billing information only and no access to shared resources or team settings.

March 2021

1 March

• Fixed a bug with DigitalOcean Load Balancers that prevented outbound data transfer from Droplets from being added to bandwidth usage totals. Any inconsistencies will be updated on the April invoice.

May 2020

15 May

• Unassigned floating IP charges will now appear on invoices. The first charge will appear on July 2020 invoices for all floating IPs that were not assigned to Droplets during the month of June.

December 2019

19 December

• Users can now specify the payment method and amount when making payments on the billing page.

17 December

• Bandwidth billing for managed databases, originally slated to begin in January 2020, has been postponed to 2021. Egress bandwidth for managed databases clusters will continue to be waived until then.

September 2019

23 September

• DigitalOcean now supports 3-D Secure (3DS) second-factor payment authentication, allowing us to accept payment from banks that require it.

20 September

• The Billing page in the control panel now splits the costs displayed between payment due and the amount not yet billed for the active billing cycle.

August 2019

23 August

• Users can now specify an account address within their Billing Settings. We use this address to determine tax location, and we use this address on invoices. Learn more about tax locations.

13 August

• The credit card input form on the billing page in the control panel has been modified to simplify billing address entry.

July 2019

9 July

• Downloadable CSV invoices available on the control panel billing page have been updated to include project names for each Droplet.

April 2019

23 April

• The control panel billing page now includes a breakdown of your spending and a downloadable PDF of your invoice.

1 April

• To help customers track their credits, we now send invoice emails when customers use any resources during a billing period, regardless of an account’s outstanding balance. Previously, we only sent invoices when the outstanding balance exceeded the threshold for automatic payments.

March 2019

20 March

• DOKS customers can now see the cost of their Kubernetes nodes and load balancers aggregated by cluster name within a Kubernetes clusters group on their invoice. Volumes and volume snapshots used in a DOKS cluster are not yet included in the cluster aggregation.

February 2019

5 February

• Users with credits now automatically receive an email notification when account usage exceeds their promo code credit and any prepay balance.

January 2019

1 January

• Monthly billing emails now include a PDF invoice attachment.

December 2018

1 December

• The first version of monthly billing emails with attached PDF invoices was released to a small group of beta customers.

September 2018

11 September

• Began incremental release of invoice aggregation for users with more than 3000 invoice line items.

August 2018

14 August

• Customers with multiple credit cards on file can now choose which one is billed by default on the billing page.

July 2018

24 July

• You can now edit the card holder name, expiration date, CVC code, and billing address for existing credit card on the Account Billing page.

1 July

• The changes to Droplet bandwidth billing announced on April 24 were put into effect.

June 2018

22 June

• Spaces will send billing data for active users within 2 hours of usage, down from a 4-5 day processing time. Previously, some users who were not billed for overages because of the processing delay may see their bill go up based on their actual usage.

April 2018

24 April

• Changes to Droplet Bandwidth Billing announced. The new billing plan goes into effect June 1. Charges for June, if any, will appear on the July 1 bill. Customers can view usage and billing information on their billing page.

20 April

• Debit cards from any country can be used for payment once a temporary pre-authorization charge of $1 is successful.

17 April

• Spaces users no longer need to cancel their Spaces subscription via the Spaces UI when they want to stop using Spaces. Now, any time a Spaces user destroys their last Space, their pro-rated $5/month billing (if not in the free trial period) stops. Overage charges still apply if they were incurred before deletion of the last Space.