Object storage · head to head · checked 8 August 2026
DigitalOcean Spaces vs Google Cloud Storage
2 object storage offers from the two, side by side: what each plan includes, what it costs (for a reference workload of 100 GB stored and 200 GB downloaded a month), and where the price comes from.
DigitalOcean Spaces
from $5/mo
Base plan (250 GiB incl.) · 1 plans listed
Google Cloud Storage
from $14/mo
Standard · 1 plans listed
Which is cheaper, DigitalOcean Spaces or Google Cloud Storage?
DigitalOcean Spaces's cheapest listed plan is Base plan (250 GiB incl.) at $5/mo; Google Cloud Storage's is Standard at $14/mo. The price shown is for a reference workload of 100 GB stored and 200 GB downloaded a month.
How many object storage offers does each offer here?
We list 1 for DigitalOcean Spaces and 1 for Google Cloud Storage, each checked against the provider's own pricing page.
DigitalOcean Spaces
Everything from DigitalOcean SpacesBase plan (250 GiB incl.)
- Storage
- $0.020 per GB a month
- Egress
- $0.010 per GB
- Free tier
- $5/mo flat includes 250 GiB storage + 1 TiB transfer, overage $0.02/$0.01 per GiB
- Region
- Global
Google Cloud Storage
Everything from Google Cloud StorageStandard
- Storage
- $0.020 per GB a month
- Egress
- $0.120 per GB
- Free tier
- Always Free tier: 5 GB-months Standard storage + 100 GB/month egress to most destinations (Australia & China excluded), usage aggregated across US-WEST1/US-CENTRAL1/US-EAST1. Egress rate above is the Worldwide (excl. Asia & Australia) 0–10 TiB/month tier; Asia/Australia/China destinations are priced higher.
- Region
- us-central1 (Iowa)
DigitalOcean Spaces against the rest
Google Cloud Storage against the rest