Cloud pricing term
What is pooled data transfer?
Pooled data transfer combines allowances and usage across a provider-defined account, team, project, or product group.
The expensive mistake
Applying one plan's allowance once to an account that actually pools several allowances, or multiplying an allowance when the provider applies it per resource. For more than one instance, check the provider's pooling rule directly; this calculator uses one combined allowance unless the cited source proves a different scope.
Where it appears on your bill
The invoice often shows aggregate outbound usage and only the bytes above the team or account pool as overage, with resource-level detail elsewhere.
Worked example
Two full-month $4 DigitalOcean Basic Droplets each contribute 500 GiB, creating a 1,000 GiB team pool. At 1,200 GiB total outbound, the vendor calculation is (1,200 - 1,000) x $0.01 = $2. Applying the allowance only once would incorrectly produce $7.
Example prices checked: