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by OwainX 3498 days ago
DigitalOcean does it's billing based on a per-minute basis based on their hourly rates. We have already implemented a feature in our backend code to allow users to "expire" free servers and are working on adding that to the dashboard UI and this option should be available this weekend.
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That's not what their website claims.

How am I billed?

Each Droplet is billed per hour up to its monthly cap.

Do I have to pay the cost of the server every time I create a new one?

No—you only need to pay for 1 hour of usage. For example, spinning up a new 512MB server just to test something for a couple of minutes will only cost you $0.0074

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#business