DigitalOcean pricing

Our scenario keeps one 1 GiB Basic Regular Droplet for twelve full billed months in each year. It excludes credits, taxes, backups and retained resources, and assumes the currently observed $6 monthly cap remains unchanged. It is a budgeting model, not a promise about next year's rate.

Year one: 12 × $6 = $72. Year two: 12 × $6 = $72. Modelled difference: $72 − $72 = $0. A separately guaranteed renewal-year tariff was Not obtained. Do not label the $6 list rate a first-year promotion, or treat the $0 modelled difference as a guaranteed renewal discount.

For a different future monthly rate R, the same model becomes year two = 12 × R and the increase over year one = 12 × (R − $6). R is deliberately left unknown. If checkout applies an account credit, record it separately from the recurring rate rather than reducing the base price in this table.

Rate evidence: Basic Regular table, 1 GiB row, $/mo cell. Billing evidence: Bundled CPU Droplet Billing, paragraphs 1–2. Quantities and unchanged-rate assumption are ours.

For this scenario, the team's actual outbound usage exceeds its accrued pooled allowance by 100 GiB. Separately, one 50 GiB Standard block volume exists for the full billing month. Those quantities are assumptions; they are not included benefits or measured usage.

Transfer overage = 100 GiB × $0.01/GiB = $1. Standard volume = 50 GiB × $0.10/GiB-month = $5. Resource subtotal = $6 + $1 + $5 = $12. This excludes tax, backups and snapshots. Extra block storage is a separate volume; it does not increase the plan's RAM or CPU. There is no claim here that a boot disk can silently overflow into paid capacity.

The threshold matters: use max(0, team outbound GiB − accrued team allowance GiB), not one Droplet's traffic minus its advertised full-month allowance. The billing documentation accrues allowance as a Droplet exists and pools it across the team. A short-lived Droplet therefore needs a prorated allowance check before this example can be reused.

Evidence: Bandwidth Billing → Droplets, paragraphs 1–2; Details and Examples, paragraph 1; Volume Pricing, first pricing paragraph and attachment statement. A separate automatic boot-disk overage tariff was Not obtained; no such charge is assumed.

Hold a 1 GiB Droplet, a 50 GiB Standard volume and one 20 GB Droplet snapshot for a complete billing month. Here 20 GB is assumed billable snapshot size, not the capacity of the source disk. Keep GB and GiB as the provider labels them.

Data from DigitalOcean official documentation, checked 2026-11-13 02:10 UTC. Published rates: Basic Regular table, 1 GiB monthly cell; Volume Pricing, pricing paragraph; Snapshots Pricing, pricing paragraph. Every subtotal is our calculation, not an invoice.

The second row models a later full month, not the month containing deletion. Already accrued charges still have to be paid. Deleting a Droplet is irreversible and is not the same as shutting down its operating system. Its associated resources are not deleted by default; choose what to retain and inspect those resources separately. Automatic backups have different retention rules and are outside this snapshot example.

State evidence: Bundled CPU Droplet Billing, paragraph 2; Destroy a Droplet from the Control Panel, associated-resource selection and final billing paragraph; Volume Pricing, duration and attachment statements.

The official Snapshots Pricing note says that, beginning 1 January 2027, additional-region copies of a Droplet snapshot are charged at the original snapshot rate. This is a published future rule, not a prediction that all Droplet prices will rise.

Scenario: one original 20 GB snapshot and one additional-region copy, each assumed to have 20 GB billable size, held for a complete billed month after that date. (20 + 20) GB × $0.06/GB-month = $2.40/month. The original alone is 20 × $0.06 = $1.20; the extra copy adds $1.20/month, or $14.40 over twelve complete months at the quoted rate. These assumed sizes are not a promise about actual incremental storage.

Evidence: Snapshots Pricing, first pricing paragraph and Note beginning “Beginning on 1 January 2027”. Very small or short-lived snapshots can incur the documented minimum charge; this full-month example is not a proration calculator.