Stop DigitalOcean Billing Surprises

DigitalOcean doesn't offer hard spending caps natively — your account can accrue charges beyond your expectation. CostGoat fills this gap with custom spending alerts per service, so you get notified before costs spike.

It depends on your resources. Droplets start at $4/month, Managed Databases at $15/month, and Kubernetes at $12/month. Bandwidth, Spaces storage, and other usage-based services add variable costs. CostGoat tracks your actual spending in real-time so there are no surprises.

DigitalOcean has basic billing alerts in their dashboard, but they're limited in granularity. CostGoat adds proactive alerts with custom thresholds per service — get desktop notifications before costs exceed your budget, not just email summaries after the fact.

DigitalOcean bills hourly for most services, with a monthly cap per resource. You're charged for running Droplets, storage used in Spaces, database clusters, and bandwidth overages. CostGoat tracks all of these in real-time so you always know your estimated monthly bill.

You can check usage in the DigitalOcean dashboard under Billing, but this requires logging in each time. CostGoat shows your DigitalOcean costs from your menu bar — see spending at a glance without opening a browser.