Cloudzy
vs
DigitalOcean
Both sell VPS and GPU instances at similar prices. Cloudzy bills hourly with large transfer allowances and rents RTX 5090 cards, while DigitalOcean adds managed databases, Kubernetes and datacenter GPUs.
What's good about each
- 10+ regions across North America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia
- Monthly transfer allowance of 1-16 TB
- 40 Gb/s uplinks and NVMe storage on every plan
- GPU plans use full card passthrough, not vGPU or MIG slices
- Monthly price caps on bundled Droplet plans
- Nvidia and AMD GPU Droplets, plus bare metal
- Outbound traffic allowance shared across the whole account
- Large tutorial library and 1-click app marketplace
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Cloudzy | DigitalOcean | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $6.95 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe | $6.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) | 14% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Medium VM | $52.95 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 240 GB NVMe | $48.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) | 9% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Large VM | $99.95 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 350 GB NVMe | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | 41% cheaper on Cloudzy |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $20.00 /mo 1 TB | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $60.90 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $15.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Valkey) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $12.00 /mo Regional HTTP, 1 node | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $34.69 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress allowance | 1-16 TB / mo per instance | 500 GB - 12 TB / mo per instance, pooled | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited 1-16 TB per instance | $10.00 /TB $0.01 / GB |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Cloudzy offers 4 GPU models, while DigitalOcean offers 10. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Cloudzy | DigitalOcean | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX PRO 6000
2 configs
|
$1.81 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | -- | Cloudzy only |
|
RTX 5090
4 configs
|
$1.39 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) · sold out | -- | Cloudzy only |
|
A100
6 configs
|
$1.53 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) · sold out | -- | Cloudzy only |
|
RTX 4090
6 configs
|
$1.08 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) · sold out | -- | Cloudzy only |
|
H100
3 configs
|
-- | $3.26 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | DigitalOcean only |
|
B300
2 configs
|
-- | $7.94 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | DigitalOcean only |
|
H200
3 configs
|
-- | $3.40 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | DigitalOcean only |
MI300X
3 configs
|
-- | $1.91 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | DigitalOcean only |
|
MI355X
1 config
|
-- | $4.50 /GPU/hr Spot | DigitalOcean only |
|
L40S
1 config
|
-- | $1.57 /GPU/hr On-demand | DigitalOcean only |
Cloudzy bills on-demand and reserved (1 months); DigitalOcean bills on-demand, spot and reserved (12 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Cloudzy | DigitalOcean |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Data centers only |
| HIPAA | -- | Yes |
| GDPR | -- | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | SAQ-A |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Cloudzy | DigitalOcean |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2008 | 2012 |
| Headquarters | UAE | USA |
| Locations | 13 | 16 |
| Example customers | University of Toronto, University of Washington, University of Calgary, University of Milan, Politecnico di Milano | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai |
| Website | cloudzy.com | digitalocean.com |
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Our data for Cloudzy was last updated on Sept. 23, 2026, and for DigitalOcean on Sept. 23, 2026.