How will I be billed?

Heya, You can check the info here: https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/billing/

But basically, Your balance accrues over the course of the calendar month based on the cost of the resources you use. So you are billed by exactly what you use, and it doesn’t matter if you destroy it in 1 hour and 59 minutes or 2 hours or 1 hour and 33 minutes. You will be billed for the resources you used, not by the hour. So if you destroy in 1 hour and 59 minutes, you will be billed for the usage of resources for 1 hour and 59 minutes.

Hi there,

In addition to what KFSys already shared, DigitalOcean bills based on actual usage, not rounded hours, so destroying a resource at 1 hour and 59 minutes means you are billed for exactly that amount of time.

It is also worth noting that, effective January 1, 2026, Droplets moved to per-second billing, which is especially useful for short-lived workloads like CI/CD jobs, testing, or batch processing. This helps avoid paying extra when resources only need to run briefly.

So in your case, you do not need to worry about rounding. You are billed only for the time the databases were actually running:

https://ideas.digitalocean.com/changelog/droplets-per-second-billing

Heya, @2380492uh

You’ll be billed for exact usage time, not rounded to the hour.

For DigitalOcean Managed Databases (including OpenSearch), billing accrues based on how long the resource actually exists. If you destroy an instance at 1 hour and 59 minutes, you pay for 1 hour and 59 minutes—not 2 hours.

Regards