Droplet Pricing Clarification

As explained it will be the max price which you’ll pay for the Droplet.

Now, I’ll recommend to check out the pricing calculator -

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/calculator#cart=[]

It has saved me time more than a couple of times.

Heya, @davidmays

$32 will be the max amount if the droplet is online during the whole month. All Droplets are billed hourly up to a monthly cap of 672 hours (the number of hours in 4 weeks).

Hope that this helps!

Hey!

The $32/mo will be the max price for the Droplet if you had the Droplet running for the whole month.

If you only had the Droplet for 1 hour, you would then only pay $.048 / hour.

Here is a snippet from the docs that covers this:

You will never be billed more than the monthly cost of your Droplet. All Droplets are billed hourly up to a monthly cap of 672 hours (the number of hours in 4 weeks). If you use your server for fewer than 672 hours during the month, you will be billed for each hour that you used it. If you use your server for more than 672 hours that month, you will be billed at the monthly cost. For example, if you spin up a $10/mo Droplet and use it for 336 hours, then you would be charged $5 (going by the hourly rate). If you use that Droplet for 700 hours, then you would be charged $10 (capped at the monthly rate).

You can check out this pricing calculator here for more information if you wish:

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/calculator

Hope that this helps!

- Bobby