Storage classes
What Spaces Cold Storage costs, and what is still unpublished
A two-class Spaces audit using the July 29 reconciled source record: Cold retrieval and internet egress are priced, while request rates, restored-copy behavior, and recovery latency remain explicit unknowns.
Put your own numbers through the calculator to see what this meter does to a normal month and to the day you restore.
The current dataset prices Cold transfer but still cannot invent request lines
The current record keeps the $5 Spaces account subscription separate from both classes. Standard includes 250 GiB and then costs $0.02 per additional GiB-month; Cold costs $0.007 per GiB-month. Both share the 1,024 GiB outbound allowance and $0.01 per additional GiB. [1] [2]
Cold retrieval costs $0.01 per GiB after a monthly allowance equal to average daily Cold storage. A complete restore still cannot assume request prices, restored-copy behavior, or recovery latency, because the checked source does not publish them. [2]
| Input | Dataset state | Break-even consequence | Source ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard storage | $5/month includes 250 GiB; then $0.02/GiB-month | Capacity-dependent baseline | [1] |
| Cold storage | $0.007/GiB-month | Published byte-storage meter | [2] |
| Cold retrieval | $0.01/GiB after the 1x average-daily-storage monthly allowance | Published byte meter; request counts remain separate | [2] |
| Cold minimum duration | 30 days; prorated remaining duration after the first 250 GiB of monthly deletes or updates | Mutation cost is published; does not apply to a read-only restore | [2] |
| Cold internet egress | 1,024 GiB shared monthly allowance, then $0.01/GiB | Published for public internet; other destinations remain not published | [2] |
Each class has a named result, including the unavailable one
Standard and Cold use GiB. The Spaces account subscription provides a shared 1,024 GiB outbound allowance and then charges $0.01 per additional GiB for either class. [1] [2]
Reading Cold data does not delete, overwrite, move, or transition the source, so early deletion does not apply to a read-only restore. Retrieval, requests, restored-copy behavior, and egress remain separate lines. [2]
| Class | Storage meter | Minimum duration | Break-even access frequency | Restore decision | Source ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spaces Standard Storage | $5/month includes 250 GiB; then $0.02/GiB-month | not published | does not apply; bundled baseline | 1,024 GiB outbound transfer is included, then $0.01/GiB | [1] |
| Spaces Cold Storage | $0.007/GiB-month | 30 days | $0.01/GiB after the 1x average-daily-storage monthly allowance | Egress is published; request rates, restored-copy behavior, and recovery latency remain not published | [2] |
The July 29 canonical record reconciles the detailed source
The official Spaces pricing documentation checked on 2026-07-29 publishes Cold retrieval at $0.01 per GiB after an allowance tied to average daily Cold usage, applies the 1,024 GiB outbound allowance and $0.01 per GiB overage to both classes, and publishes a 128 KiB minimum billed object and read. [2]
The canonical provider record now carries those fields plus the 30-day prorated early-deletion rule and its first-250-GiB monthly allowance. Request rates, restored-copy behavior, and recovery latency remain not published because the source still does not state them. [2] [2]
| Property | Canonical record | Official page checked July 29 | Current treatment | Source ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold retrieval overage | $0.01/GiB after the 1x allowance | $0.01/GiB after the published allowance | reconciled; request pricing remains separate | [2] [2] |
| Cold internet egress | 1,024 GiB shared allowance, then $0.01/GiB | 1,024 GiB shared outbound allowance, then $0.01/GiB | reconciled for public-internet transfer | [2] [2] |
| Cold early deletion | 30-day prorated remainder; first 250 GiB monthly allowance | 30-day delete or update rule with proportional remaining-day billing after the allowance | reconciled; never added to a read-only restore | [2] [2] |
| Minimum object and read | 128 KiB | 128 KiB | reconciled for stored objects and reads | [2] [2] |
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these pages, on the date shown. Each numbered reference in the text links to its entry here. Vendors change prices; if a date looks old, check the source. Three vendors publish a machine-readable feed and the rest are re-checked by hand, which is why the dates are not uniform.
The source ledger2 sources
- 1DigitalOcean documentation: Pricingdocs.digitalocean.com · checked 2026-07-25 15:34:44+00:00
- 2DigitalOcean documentation: Pricingdocs.digitalocean.com · checked 2026-07-29T02:48:53Z