Cloudflare
vs
DigitalOcean
What's good about each
- Every service runs in every datacenter, 300+ cities
- No egress fees on R2 object storage or Workers
- Free tier covers CDN, DNS, WAF and DDoS mitigation
- One platform for serverless compute, storage, SQL and vector search
- 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 | Cloudflare | DigitalOcean | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $6.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $48.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | |
| Object storage | $15.81 /mo 1 TB (R2 Standard) | $20.00 /mo 1 TB | 21% cheaper on Cloudflare |
| 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 | $82.50 /mo 25M invocations, 150 ms CPU time | $34.69 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | 2.4x more expensive on Cloudflare |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 500 GB - 12 TB / mo per instance, pooled | |
| Egress | Free for most services | $10.00 /TB $0.01 / GB |
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 Cloudflare. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Cloudflare | 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 |
MI300X
3 configs
|
-- | $1.91 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | DigitalOcean only |
|
MI355X
1 config
|
-- | $4.50 /GPU/hr Spot | 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
|
-- | $4.00 /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.
Company details
| Fact | Cloudflare | DigitalOcean |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2009 | 2012 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 312 | 16 |
| Example customers | Shopify, DoorDash, Discord, Intercom, Zendesk | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai |
| Website | cloudflare.com | digitalocean.com |
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Our data for Cloudflare was last updated on Sept. 15, 2026, and for DigitalOcean on Sept. 15, 2026.