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Estimate monthly DigitalOcean spend across droplets, block storage volumes, snapshots, load balancers and bandwidth overage.
This calculator estimates a full monthly DigitalOcean bill by combining Basic droplet prices with block storage at $0.10/GB, snapshots at $0.06/GB, load balancers at $12 per node and the $0.01/GB bandwidth overage that applies beyond the pooled transfer allowance. It is built for developers and small teams who run a few droplets and want the whole invoice — not just the headline droplet price — before they scale.
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Enter the values you already know.
Fine-tune the options to match your scenario.
Read the result and use it in your planning or reporting.
Adds droplets, volumes, snapshots, load balancers and bandwidth overage into one monthly figure.
Each droplet's transfer allowance joins one account pool; only usage beyond it costs $0.01/GB.
Droplets are prorated at 1/672 of the monthly price per hour and capped at the monthly rate.
Basic shared-CPU droplets start at $4 per month for 512 MB RAM / 1 vCPU / 10 GB SSD, with common sizes at $6 (1 GB), $12 (2 GB), $24 (4 GB) and $48 (8 GB). Billing is hourly at 1/672 of the monthly price and stops accruing at 672 hours, so a droplet never costs more than its listed monthly rate.
Every droplet adds a monthly outbound transfer allowance (500 GB to several TB depending on size) to a single account-wide pool, and only outbound traffic beyond that pool is billed, at $0.01 per GiB. Inbound transfer is always free, and the allowance accrues hourly, so a droplet running half a month contributes half its allowance.
Block storage volumes cost $0.10 per GB per month and snapshots cost $0.06 per GB per month, both billed on the space actually provisioned or stored. A 100 GB volume therefore adds $10 per month and keeping 50 GB of snapshots adds $3.
A small load balancer node costs $12 per month and gives you health checks, TLS termination and traffic distribution across droplets, which you would otherwise run yourself on an extra droplet. For a two-droplet production setup it is usually cheaper than managing your own HAProxy droplet once your time is counted, but a single-droplet site does not need one.
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