DigitalOcean Spaces
- Free allowance
- $5.00/mo base subscription includes 250 GiB across all buckets; +$0.02/GiB beyond
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tierpaid plans from USD 10.24/TB-month
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | $5.00/mo base subscription includes 250 GiB across all buckets; +$0.02/GiB beyond unit GiB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | $20.48/TB at 5 TB ($102.40) and $20.48/TB at 20 TB ($409.60), plus $10.24/TB on egress beyond 1 TiB. |
| Identity | card card |
| Egress | 1,024 GiB/month outbound included and shared across buckets, then $0.01/GiB (= $10.24/TB). Free only between Spaces and Droplets in the same metro. free allowance: 1,024 GiB per month price per tb: $10.24/TB |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | s3-compatible, rclone, cli S3 API + built-in CDN |
| Tooling | AWS CLI, rclone, s3cmd |
| Composes with | Built-in CDN is the mitigation: serve through Spaces CDN so origin egress does not accrue. |
| Reliability | Mature and reliable; simply not competitively priced above a few hundred GB. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/details/pricing/ | "base price of a Spaces Standard Storage subscription is $5.00 per month", "includes 250 GiB of storage", "Additional storage beyond this allotment costs $0.02 per GiB per month", "include 1,024 GiB of outbound data transfer... Additional outbound transfer is $0.01 per GiB" |
| 2026-10-21 | www.digitalocean.com/pricing/spaces-object-storage | accepted payment methods incl. Visa/Mastercard/Amex/Discover/PayPal/Google Pay/Apple Pay |
More fields 2
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