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Cloudflare 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...

Cloudflare

Consolidates many edge services under one platform: DNS, Load Balancing, caching, image optimization, serverless functions
Massive edge network that can handle large DDoS attacks
Very generous free tier, affordable paid plans

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 Cloudflare's prices compare against DigitalOcean?

Example configuration	Cloudflare	DigitalOcean
VM Small	--	$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)
VM Medium	--	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)
VM Large	--	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
Block Storage	--	$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$19.86 / mo 1 TB	$20.00 / mo 1 TiB
Load Balancer	--	$12.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	$82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration	$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 for most services	$10.00

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 Cloudflare and DigitalOcean offer:

Service	Cloudflare	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

	Cloudflare	DigitalOcean
Website	cloudflare.com	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009	2011
Data Center Locations	285	14
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai

	Cloudflare
Website	cloudflare.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2009
Data Center Locations	285
Example Customers	Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify

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