Cloudways vs Shadeform

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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

Shadeform

Launch instances anywhere with a single console and API
Leverage a multi-cloud set up, without the hassle
You can reserve instances in advance to ensure GPU availability
Free to use, zero mark-up fees

Price comparison

How do Cloudways's prices compare against Shadeform?

Example configuration	Cloudways	Shadeform
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)	--

Shadeform does not charge any fees to use their marketplace. You pay the same price as using the cloud providers directly.

Here are some example configurations:

GPU	VRAM	Price range (per hour)
Nvidia A4000	16 GB	$0.30-0.80
Nvidia A6000	48 GB	$0.57-1.93
Nvidia V100	16 GB	$0.69-3.06
Nvidia L40S	48 GB	$0.99-1.15
Nvidia A100	40 GB	$1.29-3.19
Nvidia H100	80 GB	$2.48-5.99

You can view the full list here.

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 Shadeform offer:

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

Company details

	Cloudways	Shadeform
Website	www.cloudways.com	shadeform.ai
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2012	2023
Data Center Locations	--	--
Example Customers	Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko	University of California Berkeley, Magic Studio, Neets.ai, MK1

	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

	Shadeform
Website	shadeform.ai
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2023
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	University of California Berkeley, Magic Studio, Neets.ai, MK1