The Basics

Civo
Website civo.com
Headquarters United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Founded 2015
Data Center Locations 5
Example Customers TrueFoundry, Fermyon, Defense.comâ„¢
DigitalOcean
Website digitalocean.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2011
Data Center Locations 14
Example Customers Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai

Cost Comparison

How do Civo's prices compare against DigitalOcean?

Example configuration Civo DigitalOcean
VM Small $5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)
VM Medium $40.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)
VM Large $160.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
Block Storage $10.00 / mo 100 GB $10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $10.00 / mo 1 TB, unlimited data transfer $20.00 / mo 1 TiB
Load Balancer $10.00 / mo Single node $12.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL $40.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $20.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions -- $34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance -- 100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Free and unlimited $10.00

Note: These pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Civo and DigitalOcean offer:

Service Civo DigitalOcean
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
Container Registry --
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers --
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Serverless Functions --
Static Sites --
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

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Our data for Civo was last updated on April 4, 2024, and for DigitalOcean on Feb. 21, 2024.