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Cloudways vs DigitalOcean

Cloudways provides a managed layer on top of infrastructure providers like DigitalOcean. While DigitalOcean itself offers unmanaged servers and a broader PaaS suite (App Platform, Functions) at a lower base cost.

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What's good about...

Cloudways logo Cloudways

  • Deploy to 65+ datacenter regions across multiple cloud providers
  • Built-in cache, database, and CDN integration
  • Offers free SSL, staging environments, and automated backups

DigitalOcean logo DigitalOcean

  • Simple, developer-first cloud
  • Predictable pricing & monthly caps
  • AI platform powered by Paperspace GPUs
  • Vast library of tutorials & 1-click apps

Price comparison

How do Cloudways's prices compare against DigitalOcean?

VM Small

Cloudways Cloudways
$11.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB)
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)

VM Medium

Cloudways Cloudways
$88.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB)
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)

VM Large

Cloudways Cloudways
$149.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB)
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)

Block Storage

Cloudways Cloudways
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$10.00 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Cloudways Cloudways
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$20.00 / mo 1 TiB

Load Balancer

Cloudways Cloudways
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$12.00 / mo

Managed PostgreSQL

Cloudways Cloudways
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage

Managed Redis®*

Cloudways Cloudways
Included depending on plan
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM

Serverless 25M Executions

Cloudways Cloudways
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Cloudways Cloudways
1-12 TB / mo
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Cloudways Cloudways
$20.00 $0.02 / GB (DO provider)
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$10.00 $0.01 / GB

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Cloudways Cloudways
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
On-DemandSpotReserved (12mo)

Available Models

DigitalOcean offers 10 GPU models.

Cloudways Cloudways
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
H100(3) H200(3) L40S(1) B300(2) RTX 6000 Ada(1) MI300X(3) RTX 4000 Ada(1) MI325X(3) MI355X(1) MI350X(2)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Cloudways and DigitalOcean offer:

Service Cloudways 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

Website
Cloudways Cloudways
www.cloudways.com
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
digitalocean.com
Headquarters
Cloudways Cloudways
United States of America US flag
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
United States of America US flag
Founded
Cloudways Cloudways
2012
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
2011
Data Center Locations
Cloudways Cloudways
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
14
Example Customers
Cloudways Cloudways
Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Cloudways was last updated on Feb. 12, 2026, and for DigitalOcean on Sept. 1, 2026.