DigitalOcean Spaces pricing

A flat $5 per month covers 250 GB of storage and 1 TB of transfer, which makes small buckets cost nothing extra and large ones uncompetitive.

List prices checked

By DigitalOcean · Object storage

Rate card

What DigitalOcean charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Entry plan$5.00/moCheapest paid plan or typical entry configuration
Storage$0.020/GB-moStandard or hot storage class
Data transfer out$0.010/GB1 TB included, then metered

Source: DigitalOcean pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Last checked against the vendor’s page on 2026-08-07.

What it costs per month

DigitalOcean Spaces billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$0.40/mo

  • 20 GB at $0.02/GB-month$0.40
  • 100 GB used, 1 TB included, 0 GB billable at $0.01/GB$0

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$10/mo

  • 500 GB at $0.02/GB-month$10
  • 1 TB used, 1 TB included, 0 GB billable at $0.01/GB$0

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$130/mo

  • 2 TB at $0.02/GB-month$40
  • 10 TB used, 1 TB included, 9 TB billable at $0.01/GB$90

DigitalOcean Spaces vs the alternatives

The closest object storage services on price, with the difference on object storage's headline axis.

ServiceStoragevs DigitalOcean SpacesCompare
Google Cloud Storage$0.020—Head to head
Linode Object Storage$0.020—Head to head
Azure Blob Storage$0.0181.1× cheaperHead to head
Scaleway Object Storage$0.0181.1× cheaperHead to head
AWS S3$0.0231.2× dearerHead to head
Cloudflare R2$0.0151.3× cheaperHead to head

Questions about pricing

How much does DigitalOcean Spaces cost in 2026?
DigitalOcean Spaces charges $5.00 per month for the entry plan, per DigitalOcean's published pricing page. There is no free tier. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does DigitalOcean Spaces have a free tier?
No. DigitalOcean Spaces bills from the first unit of usage. Several competitors in the same category do publish a free allowance — the rankings linked below list them.
What does DigitalOcean Spaces charge for egress?
$0.010 per GB, after 1 TB included in the plan. Egress is where providers in this category differ most, so it is worth checking against the alternatives before committing.
Are these DigitalOcean Spaces prices current?
They were checked against DigitalOcean's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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