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.

In this page:

What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

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

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 Cloudways's prices compare against DigitalOcean?

Example configuration	Cloudways	DigitalOcean
VM Small	$11.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB)	$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)
VM Medium	$88.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB)	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)
VM Large	$149.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB)	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
Block Storage	--	$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	--	$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®*	Included depending on plan	$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	1 TB - 12 TB / mo included depending on plan	100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$20.00 $0.02 / GB (DO provider)	$10.00 $0.01 / GB

DigitalOcean GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
Nvidia H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	20	240GB	$3.39	Launch
Nvidia H100 SXM	8x H100	640GB	160	1920GB	$23.92	Launch

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 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

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

	Cloudways
Website	www.cloudways.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2012
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko

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