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DigitalOcean vs Google Cloud

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

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

Google Cloud

Extensive range of managed services with a focus on big data and machine learning
BigQuery and Google Kubernetes Engine are widely considered industry-leading solutions
Strong community and developer tooling
40+ data centers around the world

Price comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Google Cloud?

Example configuration	DigitalOcean	Google Cloud
VM Small	$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)	$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Medium	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)	$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Large	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)	$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
Block Storage	$10.00 / mo 100 GB	$4.10 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$20.00 / mo 1 TiB	$24.93 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$12.00 / mo	$29.44 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage	$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM	$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)
Serverless 25M Executions	$34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration	$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance	Depends on service
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$10.00	$111.60

GCP offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	Total GPU Memory	vCPUs	RAM	Price per hour
g2-standard-4	1x L4	24GB	4	16GB	$0.71
g2-standard-8	1x L4	24GB	8	32GB	$0.85
g2-standard-12	1x L4	24GB	12	48GB	$1.00
g2-standard-16	1x L4	24GB	16	64GB	$1.15
g2-standard-32	1x L4	24GB	32	128GB	$1.73
g2-standard-24	2x L4	48GB	24	96GB	$2.00
a2-highgpu-1g	1x A100	40GB	12	85GB	$3.67
g2-standard-48	4x L4	96GB	48	192GB	$4.00
a2-highgpu-2g	2x A100	80GB	24	170GB	$7.35
g2-standard-96	8x L4	192GB	96	384GB	$8.00
a2-highgpu-4g	4x A100	160GB	48	340GB	$14.69
a2-highgpu-8g	8x A100	320GB	96	680GB	$29.39
a2-megagpu-16g	16x A100	640GB	96	1360GB	$55.74

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 of the managed services that DigitalOcean and Google Cloud offer:

Service	DigitalOcean	Google Cloud
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

	DigitalOcean	Google Cloud
Website	digitalocean.com	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011	2008
Data Center Locations	14	40
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

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

	Google Cloud
Website	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	40
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank