DigitalOcean Bandwidth Cost Calculator
Work out whether your traffic fits DigitalOcean's pooled Droplet transfer allowance, what overage would cost, and how that compares with the hyperscalers.
Updated · By Niraj Kumar · 14 sources
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Where
Traffic to users
Everything your servers, storage and CDN send to users and other services on the internet.
Each provider's own CDN: CloudFront, Cloud CDN, Front Door, Cloudflare or Spaces CDN.
Traffic inside the cloud
Replication, backups and calls to services in a different region.
Service-to-service calls, load balancing and database replicas in other zones of the same region.
NAT and servers
Outbound calls, package and image pulls from private subnets.
Usually one per availability zone.
Sets pooled transfer allowances and Cloud NAT's per-VM fee.
DigitalOcean has no managed NAT gateway to bill; servers reach the internet on their own addresses.
- Price rank
- 2nd cheapest of 8
- 1Cloudflarebandwidth only$0.00Cloudflare runs no servers, so region, zone and NAT traffic is priced on whatever compute sits behind it.
- 2DigitalOcean$0.00DigitalOcean has no managed NAT gateway to bill; servers reach the internet on their own addresses.
- 3Akamai Cloud (Linode)$0.00Linode has no managed NAT gateway to bill; servers reach the internet on their own addresses.
- 4Oracle Cloud$4.25
- 5Hetzner Cloud$8.51Uses 10.5 TB against a pooled allowance of 3 TB across 3 servers.
- 6Microsoft Azure$948
- 7AWS$998
- 8Google Cloud$1,182
| Provider | Internet egress | Inter-region | Cross-AZ | NAT gateway hours | NAT data processed | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | – | – | – | – | – | $0.00 |
| DigitalOcean | – | – | – | – | – | $0.00 |
| Akamai Cloud (Linode) | – | – | – | – | – | $0.00 |
| Oracle Cloud | $4.25 | – | – | – | – | $4.25 |
| Hetzner Cloud | $8.51 | – | – | – | – | $8.51 |
| Microsoft Azure | $882 | $10.00 | – | $32.85 | $22.50 | $948 |
| AWS | $913 | $10.00 | $20.00 | $32.85 | $22.50 | $998 |
| Google Cloud | $1,137 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $3.07 | $22.50 | $1,182 |
How is cloud data transfer billed?
As of September 28, 2026, on DigitalOcean each server includes 4,000 GB of transfer in North America, pooled, with overage at $0.01 per GB; Spaces CDN starts at $0.01 per GB; and there is no managed NAT gateway to pay for. Your bill is each traffic type's gigabytes times its rate, tier by tier, plus any hourly charges.
monthly = tiered(internet egress) + CDN delivery + misses × origin fetch + inter-region GB × rate + cross-AZ GB × rate + NAT gateways × hourly × 730 + NAT GB × processing rateThis page uses the same method as the Cloud Egress Cost Calculator, which explains each term and assumption in full.
Worked example
A workload in North America on DigitalOcean: 10 TB a month to the internet, 500 GB to another region, 1,000 GB across zones, 500 GB through NAT, on 3 servers.
- 1Every line falls inside the free allowances.
$0.00 a month, $0.00 a year: the lowest of any cloud listed that runs servers.
Frequently asked questions
What does DigitalOcean charge for bandwidth?
At list prices, each server includes 4,000 GB of transfer in North America, pooled, with overage at $0.01 per GB; Spaces CDN starts at $0.01 per GB; and there is no managed NAT gateway to pay for. Each Droplet adds its transfer allowance to a pool shared across the team; the calculator assumes 4,000 GB a server, the 4 GB Basic Droplet's. Overage is $0.01 per GB. Traffic between Droplets over the VPC is free, and there are no availability zones. Spaces CDN delivery comes with the $5 Spaces subscription and its 1 TB of transfer. DigitalOcean has no South American region.
How does DigitalOcean's bandwidth pool work?
Every Droplet brings a monthly transfer allowance, from 500 GB on the $4 plan to several terabytes on larger ones, and the allowances of all your Droplets are pooled across the team. Only outbound traffic beyond the pool is billed, at $0.01 per GB. Inbound traffic and traffic between Droplets over the VPC are free.
Sources
- AWS, EC2 on-demand pricing: data transfer · checked
- AWS, Amazon CloudFront pay-as-you-go pricing · checked
- AWS, Amazon VPC pricing (NAT gateway) · checked
- Google Cloud, all networking pricing · checked
- Google Cloud, Cloud CDN pricing · checked
- Google Cloud, Cloud NAT pricing · checked
- Microsoft, Azure bandwidth pricing · checked
- Microsoft, Azure Front Door pricing · checked
- Microsoft, Azure NAT Gateway pricing · checked
- Cloudflare, R2 pricing · checked
- Oracle, OCI networking price list · checked
- DigitalOcean, bandwidth billing · checked
- Akamai, network transfer usage and costs · checked
- Hetzner, Cloud billing FAQ · checked
Related calculators
- Cloud Egress Cost CalculatorEnter your traffic once and see the monthly data transfer bill on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Cloudflare, Oracle, DigitalOcean, Linode and Hetzner side by side.
- DigitalOcean vs Linode Egress Cost CalculatorDigitalOcean Droplets against Akamai's Linodes: pooled transfer allowances, overage rates and CDN options for your traffic.
- DigitalOcean vs Hetzner Egress Cost CalculatorDigitalOcean against Hetzner Cloud: how far each provider's included traffic goes and what overage costs for your workload.
- Cloudflare Bandwidth Cost CalculatorSee what moving delivery to Cloudflare's free-bandwidth CDN or zero-egress R2 storage would save against AWS, Google Cloud and Azure egress.
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