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Billing | DigitalOcean Documentation
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Reference
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Accounts
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Billing
Paying Your Bill
Manage Payment Methods
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Invoices
Spend by Date Range
Signup Credit
Taxes by Country
Bandwidth
Pricing Overview
API & CLI Reference
API Reference
CLI Reference (Balance)
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CLI Reference (Billing History)
CLI Reference (Invoice)
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Why was my card declined?
How do I update my contact and company details on my invoice?
Can I have a refund?
I've paid my bill so why aren't my services online?
Why don't I see Google Pay as a payment option?
What if I'm unable to pay my invoice?
I don't recognize a charge on my invoice
Why do I need to enter a payment method?
Why don't I see Apple Pay as a payment option?
Why does DigitalOcean require prepayment for PayPal?
DigitalOcean billing cycles are monthly. Your balance accrues over the course of the calendar month based on
the cost of the resources you use
. We are also required by law to apply
taxes
for certain countries.
We automatically
invoice
and charge your team’s or organization’s primary
payment method
on the first day of each month for the previous month’s usage, or partway through the month when your balance reaches your tier’s
auto-charge amount
.
For consolidated billing, payment, and invoicing, you can group related teams into an
organization
, and view detailed spend breakdowns by team.
Payment
How to Pay Your Bill
Pay bills from DigitalOcean using a credit card, debit card, crypto wallet, third-party provider (like PayPal, Google Pay, or Apple Pay), or a bank account.
How to Manage Payment Methods on DigitalOcean
How to add, edit, and remove payment methods on your team, including credit cards, debit cards, crypto wallets, and third-party providers.
Late Payments
Our late payment policies for past due accounts, suspended accounts, and permanent resource deletion.
Spend Alerts
Set up spend alerts to receive email notifications when your monthly spending crosses percentage thresholds of a budget you define.
Charges
Invoices
Invoices list the charges a team has accrued in a given monthly billing cycle.
Signup Credit
Automatic signup credit for your first team.
Tax Information by Country
We are required by law to apply taxes for certain countries depending on the associated team’s tax location. Registered businesses in certain locations can enter a VAT or GST IDs to remove those taxes from their monthly bills.
Bandwidth Billing
Consolidated information on bandwidth usage charges for Droplets and other DigitalOcean products.
Pricing Overview
Pricing details for all DigitalOcean products.
digitalocean.com
Reference
Billing API and CLI Reference
Use the DigitalOcean API and official CLI client, doctl, to programmatically retrieve your balance, invoices, and billing history.
DigitalOcean MCP Server Reference
Use the DigitalOcean MCP Server to view and manage account details, billing history, SSH keys, and balances with the DigitalOcean MCP Server.
Latest Updates
5 August 2026
Spend alerts
are now generally available for teams and organizations, replacing billing alerts. You can create multiple alerts with incremental percentage thresholds, scoped to total spend, specific products, or, for organizations, specific teams. Notifications arrive within an hour of your spend crossing a threshold.
Existing billing alerts have been migrated to the
Spend alerts
page as an alert named
Account Spend Alert
.
1 July 2026
Invoice
and
Billing Insights
CSV files now include a
tag_name
column that lists the tags applied to each resource. Tag information is included only for resource usage on or after 1 July 2026.
29 June 2026
Serverless Inference now requires a positive prepaid account balance before you can send inference requests. Usage charges are deducted from this balance, and access is suspended if it reaches $0. You can add a prepayment manually or enable auto-reload to replenish your balance automatically. For more information, see
Manage Serverless Inference Prepayment
.
For more information, see
the full release notes
.
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