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Civo vs DigitalOcean

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Civo

Easy to use, uncomplicated cloud platform
Everything you need in a single platform, from databases to GPUs to object storage to instances
Create a Kubernetes cluster with just a few clicks
Very competitive pricing, free egress

DigitalOcean

Wide range of managed services: from databases to serverless to Kubernetes
Many VPS configurations available (GPUs, high memory, dedicated CPU)
Plenty of datacenter locations around the world
There's lots of guides, docs and community tutorials online

Price 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

Civo offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	Total GPU Memory	vCPUs	RAM	Price per hour
H100	1x H100	80GB	--	--	On Request
GH200	1x GH200	96GB	--	--	On Request
L40S Medium	1x L40S	48GB	8	64GB	$1.79
A100-40 Small	1x A100	40GB	8	64GB	$1.79
A100-80 Small	1x A100	80GB	12	128GB	$2.38
L40S Medium (2x)	2x L40S	96GB	16	128GB	$3.57
A100-40 Medium	2x A100	80GB	16	128GB	$3.57
A100-80 Medium	2x A100	160GB	24	256GB	$4.76
L40S Large	4x L40S	192GB	32	255GB	$7.14
A100-40 Large	4x A100	160GB	32	255GB	$7.14
A100-80 Large	4x A100	320GB	48	512GB	$9.52
L40S Extra Large	8x L40S	384GB	64	512GB	$14.29
A100-40 Extra Large	8x A100	320GB	64	512GB	$14.29
A100-80 Extra Large	8x A100	640GB	96	1024GB	$19.05

Note: Our 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)

Company details

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

	Civo
Website	civo.com
Headquarters	United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Founded	2015
Data Center Locations	5
Example Customers	TrueFoundry, Fermyon, Defense.com™

	DigitalOcean
Website	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011
Data Center Locations	14
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai