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

Cloudways logo Paperspace

  • Competitive GPU prices
  • Managed platform, from notebooks to container-based clusters
  • Free ingress and egress

Price comparison

How do Cloudways's prices compare against Paperspace?

Example configuration Cloudways Paperspace
VM Small $11.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB) --
VM Medium $88.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB) --
VM Large $149.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB) --
Managed Redis®* Included depending on plan --
Free egress allowance 1 TB - 12 TB / mo included depending on plan --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $20.00 $0.02 / GB (DO provider) Free and unlimited Burst up to 10 Gbps, then soft capped at 900 Mbps

Paperspace GPUs

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
GPU+ (M4000) 1x M4000 8GB 8 30GB $0.45 Source
P4000 1x P4000 8GB 8 30GB $0.51 Source
RTX4000 1x RTX 4000 24GB 8 30GB $0.56 Source
P5000 1x P5000 16GB 8 30GB $0.78 Source
A4000 1x A4000 16GB 8 45GB $0.80 Launch
RTX5000 1x RTX 5000 16GB 8 30GB $0.82 Source
P6000 1x P6000 24GB 8 30GB $1.10 Source
A5000 1x A5000 24GB 8 45GB $1.42 Launch
A6000 1x A6000 48GB 8 45GB $1.93 Launch
V100-32G 1x V100 32GB 8 30GB $2.34 Launch
V100 1x V100 16GB 8 30GB $2.34 Launch
A100 1x A100 40GB 8 90GB $3.19 Launch
A100-80G 1x A100 80GB 8 90GB $3.28 Launch
H100 PCIe 1x H100 80GB 16 268GB $5.99 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 Paperspace offer:

Service Cloudways Paperspace
Block Storage --
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
GPU-powered Servers --
Managed Containers --
Managed MySQL --
Managed Redis®* --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

Company details

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
Paperspace
Website paperspace.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2014
Data Center Locations 3
Example Customers Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando

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Our data for Cloudways was last updated on May 5, 2025, and for Paperspace on Dec. 3, 2024.