DigitalOcean Spaces

DigitalOcean Spaces — Bundled object storage plus free CDN, priced as a flat base fee with overages. Spaces is deliberately boring: USD 5 a month buys 250 GB of storage and 1 TB of outbound transfer, with overages at 0.02 and 0.01 per gigabyte and no per-request charges at all. A CDN is included at no extra cost. The trade is feature depth — no object versioning, no bucket event notifications — but there is a Sydney region and it sits next to the Droplets you probably already run. Built by DigitalOcean. Founded 2011.

We track it in 1 comparison — S3-compatible storage — so every claim below is a cell in a table you can open and check rather than an impression. Across those rosters it sits against 11 other tools, and what follows is where it visibly separates from them.

Where it wins.

• CDN integration — free-bundled, tied for best across 4 of 12 tools.
• TTFB from Sydney — 25 ms, 2nd of 10.

Each of those is ranked against the whole roster on its category page, not against a hand-picked subset, so a first place here means first of everything we list.

Where it gives ground.

• Versioning — No. Backblaze B2 records Yes.
• Object lock / WORM — No. Backblaze B2 records Yes.
• Storage $/TB/mo — $20 /TB/mo, 9th of 11. Storj records $4 /TB/mo.
• Replication model — single-az, 8th of 12. Tigris records multi-region.

None of these disqualify it on their own. They are the fields to check against your own requirements before you commit, because they are the ones where a competitor genuinely does better.

Provenance. 25 of 28 tracked fields carry a value for DigitalOcean Spaces, and 7 of those cite a document you can open. Last verified 2026-07-23. Every figure keeps its own provenance — measured by us, claimed by the vendor, inferred, or community-reported — and we would rather print a dash than a guess.

Its nearest neighbour in our data is AWS S3. DigitalOcean Spaces is ahead on Egress $/TB ($10 /TB against $90 /TB) and True cost /mo (USD) ($60 /mo against $472.6 /mo). AWS S3 takes Versioning (Yes against No) and Object lock / WORM (Yes against No). That pattern repeats across the rest of the roster — see DigitalOcean Spaces alternatives for the other rivals, each compared the same way.

Company

DigitalOcean

Founded

2011

Fields we track

25 of 28

Last verified

2026-07-23

Buy it for the bundling and the Sydney region, not the feature set. No versioning and no bucket events rules it out as a system of record; as a CDN-fronted asset bucket sitting next to your Droplets it is genuinely convenient and hard to misbudget.

True cost /mo (USD)

$60 /mo6th of 9

Inferredverified 2026-07-23source

Egress $/TB

$10 /TB7th of 11

Vendor-claimedverified 2026-07-23source

Versioning

○No9th of 11

Inferredverified 2026-07-23

CDN integration

free-bundled1st of 12

Vendor-claimedverified 2026-07-23source

Object lock / WORM

○No9th of 11

Inferred

TTFB from Sydney

25 ms2nd of 10

Inferred

Storage $/TB/mo

$20 /TB/mo9th of 11

Vendor-claimedverified 2026-07-23source

True cost /mo (AUD)

A$91.2 /mo6th of 9

Inferredverified 2026-07-23

DigitalOcean Spaces is the right call in these situations, each one drawn from a field we actually record:

• Static assets and user uploads served from Sydney with a bundled CDN.
• Teams who want one predictable line item instead of five metered ones.
• Existing DigitalOcean deployments where traffic stays on the internal network.
• CDN integration is your binding constraint. DigitalOcean Spaces records free-bundled, the best figure in the S3-compatible storage roster. We define that field as how you get cached edge delivery in front of the bucket.
• TTFB from Sydney is your binding constraint. DigitalOcean Spaces records 25 ms, 2nd of 10 in the S3-compatible storage roster. We define that field as typical time to first byte for an uncached GET of a small object from a client in Sydney, using the provider's nearest available location.

Reach for something else when any of the following is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have:

• Versioning. DigitalOcean Spaces records No on the S3-compatible storage table. Backblaze B2 records Yes on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Object lock / WORM. DigitalOcean Spaces records No on the S3-compatible storage table. Backblaze B2 records Yes on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Storage $/TB/mo. DigitalOcean Spaces records $20 /TB/mo, 9th of 11 in the S3-compatible storage roster. Storj records $4 /TB/mo on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Replication model. DigitalOcean Spaces records single-az, 8th of 12 in the S3-compatible storage roster. Tigris records multi-region on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.

We publish this block because a comparison that only lists what a tool is good at is marketing. Every figure above sits on the same page as its source, and the field definitions are on the category tables if you want to check how we measured them.

What we don't know. 3 of the 28 fields we track for DigitalOcean Spaces are still blank: Egress cap (x stored), Durability (nines) and Uptime SLA. Those render as dashes rather than as zeroes or assumptions, because an empty cell and a bad cell are not the same thing and only one of them is honest. If you know any of these figures and can point at a document, tell us.