DigitalOcean Spaces
Cloud storage service that works like Amazon S3, with scalable capacity and configurable performance tiers
- Vendor
- DigitalOcean
- Also known as
- digitalocean-spaces
Available worldwide
What is DigitalOcean Spaces?
An object storage service compatible with Amazon S3 APIs, offering multiple storage performance tiers with flat pricing across supported regions and no per-region price variation.
DigitalOcean Spaces pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $0.15/GiB/month (standard) to $0.30/GiB/month (high performance). Flat pricing across all regions.
Standard Tier
High Performance Tier
What DigitalOcean Spaces does
The capabilities that matter for file storage, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- S3 API compatible
- ✓
- Storage tiering
- ✓
- Multi region replication
- -
- Erasure coding
- -
- Object versioning
- -
- Object lock immutability
- -
- Encryption at rest
- -
- Customer managed keys
- -
- Free or discounted egress
- -
- Open source
- -
- CDN integration
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (2)
Independently observed- AWS CLI
- Flexify.IO
DigitalOcean Spaces FAQ
Common questions about DigitalOcean Spaces, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is DigitalOcean Spaces?
A scalable object storage service for storing and delivering large amounts of unstructured data globally via S3-compatible APIs, with built-in CDN and predictable per-gigabyte pricing. It is indexed under File Storage.
How much does DigitalOcean Spaces cost?
DigitalOcean Spaces is a paid product; published pricing starts at $0.01. It is sold across 2 plans (Standard Storage and Cold Storage). Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does DigitalOcean Spaces support?
DigitalOcean Spaces supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can DigitalOcean Spaces be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for DigitalOcean Spaces, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
DigitalOcean Spaces alternatives
Other file storage we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- StorjDistributed cloud storage with local-like performance and significantly lower costs than traditional providershigh · 75%
- MinIOlow · 41%
- Amazon S3A scalable, durable cloud object storage service for storing and managing massive amounts of datamedium · 73%
- Cloudflare R2Distributed object storage without data transfer feeslow · 21%
- SeaweedFSA distributed storage system with S3-compatible object storage and horizontal scalinglow · 28%
- JuiceFSCloud-native file system that abstracts object storage as a shared POSIX file systemlow · 6%
Compare DigitalOcean Spaces
Side by side against other file storage, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for DigitalOcean Spaces, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 75 | 0.06 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 46 | 0.05 | 2.3 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 0.05 | 0.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.16 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.12 | 0.0 | - |
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All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 4 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Storage tiering, S3 api compatible | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-08-19 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-10-13 · 50% |
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