Atlas Cloud
vs
DigitalOcean
What's good about each
- Fully sovereign infrastructure hosted in Iceland
- Free ingress and egress traffic
- Tier 3 data center, ISO 27001 certified
- Self-service provisioning via UI, CLI, API, Terraform, and Ansible
- Monthly price caps on bundled Droplet plans
- Nvidia and AMD GPU Droplets, plus bare metal
- Outbound traffic allowance shared across the whole account
- Large tutorial library and 1-click app marketplace
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Atlas Cloud | DigitalOcean | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $77.19 /mo 1 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 20 GiB storage (a4) | $6.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) | 92% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Medium VM | $148.44 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 40 GiB storage (a5) | $48.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) | 68% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Large VM | $296.88 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GiB RAM, 160 GiB storage (a7) | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | 43% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Block storage | $11.55 /mo 100 GiB Block Storage | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | 13% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Object storage | $101.34 /mo 1 TiB stored, S3-compatible | $20.00 /mo 1 TB | 80% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $60.90 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $15.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Valkey) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $12.00 /mo Regional HTTP, 1 node | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $34.69 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress allowance | Both ingress and egress are free. Unlimited free egress | 500 GB - 12 TB / mo per instance, pooled | |
| Egress | Free Egress is always free | $10.00 /TB $0.01 / GB | Free on Atlas Cloud |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
DigitalOcean offers 10 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Atlas Cloud. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Atlas Cloud | DigitalOcean | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
3 configs
|
-- | $3.26 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | DigitalOcean only |
|
B300
2 configs
|
-- | $7.94 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | DigitalOcean only |
|
H200
3 configs
|
-- | $3.40 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | DigitalOcean only |
MI355X
1 config
|
-- | $2.97 /GPU/hr Spot | DigitalOcean only |
|
MI300X
3 configs
|
-- | $1.91 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | DigitalOcean only |
|
L40S
1 config
|
-- | $1.57 /GPU/hr On-demand | DigitalOcean only |
|
RTX 6000 Ada
1 config
|
-- | $1.57 /GPU/hr On-demand | DigitalOcean only |
|
MI325X
3 configs
|
-- | $2.88 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | DigitalOcean only |
|
RTX 4000 Ada
1 config
|
-- | $0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand | DigitalOcean only |
|
MI350X
2 configs
|
-- | $2.46 /GPU/hr Spot | DigitalOcean only |
DigitalOcean bills on-demand, spot and reserved (12 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Atlas Cloud | DigitalOcean |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Data centers only |
| HIPAA | -- | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | SAQ-A |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Atlas Cloud | DigitalOcean |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2025 | 2012 |
| Headquarters | Iceland | USA |
| Locations | 1 | 16 |
| Example customers | -- | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai |
| Website | www.atlascloud.is | digitalocean.com |
Alternatives to consider
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Our data for Atlas Cloud was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for DigitalOcean on Oct. 1, 2026.