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DigitalOcean Spaces pricing: what backups and restores cost

Based in the United States · Prices checked

DigitalOcean Spaces Standard Storage costs $0.02 per GiB a month beyond the 250 GiB its $5 monthly fee includes (Spaces Cold Storage: $7.17 per TiB), with the first 1 TiB of downloads free each month. 10 TB of backups: from $70.19 a month, $171.71 the month you restore it all.

10 TB, normal month
$70.19Spaces Cold Storage, New York 3
10 TB, month you restore it all
$171.71Spaces Cold Storage, New York 3

10 TB kept, 1 TB downloaded in a normal month, all 10 TB downloaded in the month you restore; the other calculator defaults apply.

DigitalOcean Spaces is cheap to keep and dearer to get back: on a 10 TB backup it is the 6th cheapest of the 18 vendors with both bills for a normal month but the 10th cheapest for the month you restore everything.

What adds to a DigitalOcean Spaces bill besides storage

From DigitalOcean Spaces's published rules, per class and region. "Not published" means DigitalOcean Spaces's pricing pages do not state it.

Class and regionMinimum storage periodSmallest billed objectMinimum monthly billReading data
Spaces Standard Storage, New York 3 Not published 4 KB $5 a month, with 250 GiB included Free
Spaces Cold Storage, New York 3 30 days 128 KB None $0.01 per GiB

Reading data is the charge for reading what is stored, billed on top of any download charge. Downloads: the first 1 TiB of downloads free each month. Deleting an object before its minimum storage period ends still bills the remaining time.

How the storage classes compare

Same offer, two bills. Vertical positions show cost rank within these 2 offers.

Lowest normal bill$70.19Spaces Cold Storage · New York 3

Lowest restore bill$171.71Spaces Cold Storage · New York 3

Normal monthRestore month
Spaces Cold Storage · New York 3$70.19
Spaces Standard Storage · New York 3$186.26
Spaces Cold Storage · New York 3$171.71
Spaces Standard Storage · New York 3$278.47
Every bill in the chart
OfferNormal monthRestore month
Spaces Cold Storage · New York 3$70.19$171.71
Spaces Standard Storage · New York 3$186.26$278.47
Thicker blue lines cross another offer. Thin lines keep their order. The heaviest line marks the lowest normal-month bill. Unpublished totals are not drawn.

DigitalOcean Spaces pricing calculator

Every DigitalOcean Spaces class priced on your numbers, for a normal month and for the month you restore. A charge DigitalOcean Spaces does not publish stays named on the bill, never counted as zero.

Which bill are you looking at?
Cheapest for a normal month

DigitalOcean Spaces · Spaces Cold Storage New York 3

$70.19 a normal month

$171.71on the month you restore

Calculated from the provider's listed rates, not a quote. Checked 17 October 2026

Workload behind this answer10 TB backed up · 1 TB downloaded a month · 10 TB in a restore · 1,000 Mbps · readable at once · any listed region

10 TB backed up; 1 TB downloaded in a normal month; 10 TB downloaded in a restore; 1,000 Mbps download speed; data readable at once, with no restore step; no deadline for everything to be back; any listed region.

Other defaults: 1,000,000 objects; 0 TB upload; 500,000 Class A / 2,000,000 Class B operations; each vendor's standard restore speed; the public internet destination; restored copy for 24 h; 365-day object age; no free tier; object lock not required; S3-compatible API not required.

Lowest normal-month totals

  1. 1DigitalOcean Spaces
    Normal
    $70.19
    Restore
    $171.71

    Ready at once · all back in 22 h at the soonest · meets your limits

    What decides it: Storage ($65.19).

Worked example for a 10 TB backup. Change a field and the answer follows.

Files, requests, download speed and restore deadline 9 settings

Other settings stay at the calculator's labelled defaults. Use the full comparison calculator when a region, Object Lock or S3 compatibility decides the choice.

A restore leaves the order as it is

Same offer, two bills. Vertical positions show cost rank within these 2 offers.

Lowest normal bill$70.19Spaces Cold Storage · New York 3

Lowest restore bill$171.71Spaces Cold Storage · New York 3

Normal monthRestore month
Spaces Cold Storage · New York 3$70.19
Spaces Standard Storage · New York 3$186.26
Spaces Cold Storage · New York 3$171.71
Spaces Standard Storage · New York 3$278.47
Every bill in the chart
OfferNormal monthRestore month
Spaces Cold Storage · New York 3$70.19$171.71
Spaces Standard Storage · New York 3$186.26$278.47
Thicker blue lines cross another offer. Thin lines keep their order. The heaviest line marks the lowest normal-month bill. Unpublished totals are not drawn.

How much more the restore month costs

Normal month to restore month
normal $70.19restore month $171.71

The month you restore: 2.4 times this vendor's quiet month.

Back online: 22 h at the soonestData ready: Ready at once

Recovery time, price date, and sourceshow details

Restoring everything costs 2.4 times a quiet month with this vendor. That multiple, not the storage rate, is what a backup decision turns on.

Back online
22 h at the soonest
Data ready
Ready at once
Prices checked
17 October 2026

This vendor publishes no downloadable price feed, so every figure here is re-checked by hand.

Every DigitalOcean Spaces class and region

DigitalOcean Spaces's cheapest class and region for your workload, with every other one listed under it. 2 of 2 have every price the bill needs and meet your limits.

Every offer, each storage class and region ranked2 offers

Ranked offers come first. Offers we cannot rank stay in the list, with the missing price or the requirement they miss.

  • 1DigitalOcean Spaces Cold Storagenyc3$70.19
  • 2DigitalOcean Spaces Standard Storagenyc3$186.26

DigitalOcean Spaces Cold Storage line by line

Every charge, how it is worked out, and the restore time$70.19 in 5 lines
Normal-month bill, line by lineDigitalOcean Spaces Cold Storage New York 3, priced per GiB, normal month
Storage $65.19Requests $0.00Downloads (egress) $0.00Retrieval and restored copy $0.00Fixed fees $5.00
Normal month total$70.19

Calculated from the provider's listed rates.

Vendor wait and download

22.2 hEverything back, at the soonest

Vendor gets data readyReady at once

Download at your speedat least 22.2 h

Data in this class can be read at once, with no restore step, so the soonest it can all be back is the download at your full 1000 Mbps. The vendor does not publish how fast it serves a whole restore, so a real restore can take longer.

Restore time in detail
Shortest wait0 h
Longest wait0 h
Download time (at least)22.2 h
Everything back, at the soonest22.2 h
With the longest wait, at the soonest22.2 h
Blue shows the vendor's published wait, hatched where it can run longer; orange shows the download at your speed. Dashed parts are not published. A real restore can take longer.
Time to recovery

At least 22 h before the last file arrives, at the vendor's standard restore speed

022 h
Vendor gets data ready
Ready at once
Download at your speed
22 h

Data in this class can be read at once, with no restore step, so the soonest it can all be back is the download at your full 1000 Mbps. The vendor does not publish how fast it serves a whole restore, so a real restore can take longer.

When DigitalOcean Spaces does not save you money

DigitalOcean Spaces costs more than most vendors in a normal month for a 2 TB NAS offsite copy, a 5 TB photo archive, 1 TB of app files with public downloads and a 100 TB compliance archive, and in the month you restore for a 10 TB backup repository and 1 TB of app files with public downloads. The widest gap is a 100 TB compliance archive, a normal month: $656.93 at DigitalOcean Spaces against $99.34 at Amazon S3 (S3 Glacier Deep Archive).

Backup DigitalOcean Spaces, normal month Cheapest normal month DigitalOcean Spaces, month you restore Cheapest month you restore
NAS offsite, 2 TB2 TB, 50 GB downloaded a month, 200,000 files $18.0413th of 18 $8.32OVHcloud Object Storage · Infrequent Access $27.367th of 18 $11.12Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage
Backup repository, 10 TB10 TB, 1 TB downloaded a month, 1 million objects, readable at once $70.196th of 18 $44.65OVHcloud Object Storage · Infrequent Access $171.7110th of 18 $55.83Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage
Photo archive, 5 TB5 TB, little downloaded, 250,000 files $37.6011th of 18 $6.92Amazon S3 · S3 Glacier Deep Archive $74.859th of 18 $27.88Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage
App files with public downloads, 1 TB1 TB stored, 5 TB downloaded a month, 50 million reads $54.9512th of 17 $7.65Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage $64.2712th of 17 $7.69Telnyx Cloud Storage · Regular Storage
Compliance archive, 100 TB100 TB kept for years, 10 TB restored at a time $656.9311th of 18 $99.34Amazon S3 · S3 Glacier Deep Archive $739.829th of 18 $250.10Oracle OCI Object Storage · Archive

Each backup is a preset of the home calculator, priced with its other defaults on prices checked 17 October to 6 November 2026. A place counts each vendor's cheapest class that meets the backup's limit on how long data may take to be ready, among the vendors with a full bill for that month. Price your own backup above.

Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive: each file must be restored before you can download it, which takes up to 12 hours, and Amazon S3 bills each file for at least 180 days.

Oracle OCI Object Storage Archive: each file must be restored before you can download it (Oracle says the first byte comes back within an hour, but not when the whole file is ready), and Oracle bills each file for at least 90 days.

Head to head: DigitalOcean Spaces against Cloudflare R2, Filebase, Hetzner Object Storage, Storj, Vultr Object Storage and Wasabi, both bills on the same backups.

Bills for the 10 TB workload

Spaces Standard Storage, New York 3

Normal month $186.26
Normal-month bill, line by lineDigitalOcean Spaces Standard Storage New York 3, priced per GiB, normal month
Storage $181.26Requests $0.00Downloads (egress) $0.00Retrieval and restored copy $0.00Fixed fees $5.00
Normal month total$186.26

Calculated from the provider's listed rates.

Month you restore $278.47
Restore-month bill, line by lineDigitalOcean Spaces Standard Storage New York 3, priced per GiB, month you restore
Storage $181.26Requests $0.00Downloads (egress) $92.21Retrieval and restored copy $0.00Fixed fees $5.00
Month you restore total$278.47

Calculated from the provider's listed rates.

Spaces Cold Storage, New York 3

Normal month $70.19
Normal-month bill, line by lineDigitalOcean Spaces Cold Storage New York 3, priced per GiB, normal month
Storage $65.19Requests $0.00Downloads (egress) $0.00Retrieval and restored copy $0.00Fixed fees $5.00
Normal month total$70.19

Calculated from the provider's listed rates.

Month you restore $171.71
Restore-month bill, line by lineDigitalOcean Spaces Cold Storage New York 3, priced per GiB, month you restore
Storage $65.19Requests $0.00Downloads (egress) $92.21Retrieval and restored copy $9.31Fixed fees $5.00
Month you restore total$171.71

Calculated from the provider's listed rates.

Price your own workload against every vendor, including the month you restore and how long it takes to come back.

Pricing conditions

Every class, and the rules that change its bill

What each class is for and the published rules that do not depend on its rate, each with the day it was checked. Current rates are in the bills above.

Spaces Standard Storage

Online S3-compatible object storage with an integrated CDN and a bundled monthly capacity and transfer allowance.

Spaces Cold Storage

Less-frequently accessed data where lower storage cost is acceptable and recovery rules are verified before use.

Questions buyers ask about DigitalOcean Spaces

Does Spaces Cold use the same outbound-transfer rule as Standard?

Yes. DigitalOcean's pricing documentation says bandwidth pricing applies to both Standard and Cold Storage: the subscription's 1,024 GiB of outbound transfer a month is shared by every bucket, and each further GiB is billed at the same rate.

Can I calculate a complete Spaces Cold restore bill?

Yes. DigitalOcean publishes every charge a Cold restore pays: retrieval beyond your average daily Cold storage for the month, outbound transfer beyond the shared allowance, and no request fees. Cold objects are read directly, so there is no restore step and no temporary copy to pay for.

Are Spaces API requests free?

Yes. DigitalOcean says Spaces has no per-request fees: the flat rate includes unlimited uploads and API requests. Requests are limited by rate instead; a Cold Storage bucket takes up to 450 writes, 250 reads and 25 lists a second.

What happens if I delete or update a Spaces Cold object early?

Current docs publish a 30-day minimum. Delete or update before day 30 creates a prorated remaining-duration charge, with the first 250 GiB of monthly early-deletion or update usage free. Cold objects and reads also use 128 KiB minimums. A restore only reads the data, so this charge for deleting or updating early does not apply.

Can I use DigitalOcean Spaces as an immutable backup target?

Not verified. Spaces publishes bucket versioning, but versioning alone is not Object Lock. The checked official S3 compatibility material does not publish governance, compliance, legal-hold, retention-range, or immutable-backup integration behavior for either class.