Cloudflare vs DigitalOcean

The Basics

	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

Cost 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: 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 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)	--

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