What's good about...

DigitalOcean logo 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

DigitalOcean logo Heroku

  • Fully-managed infra, minimal ops overhead
  • Heroku Postgres is a one-click, battle-tested database
  • Extensive add-on marketplace

Price comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Heroku?

Example configuration DigitalOcean Heroku
VM Small $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) $50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X)
VM Medium $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) $250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M)
VM Large $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) $500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L)
Block Storage $10.00 / mo 100 GB --
Object Storage $20.00 / mo 1 TiB --
Load Balancer $12.00 / mo Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage $50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM $200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions $34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration --
Free egress allowance 100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance 2 TB / mo per app
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $10.00 $0.01 / GB Not publicly listed Bandwidth is soft limited per app (2 TB / mo)

DigitalOcean offers GPUs in the following configurations:

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 of the managed services that DigitalOcean and Heroku offer:

Service DigitalOcean Heroku
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
Website digitalocean.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2011
Data Center Locations 14
Example Customers Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai
Heroku
Website heroku.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2007
Data Center Locations 10
Example Customers Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify

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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Nov. 12, 2024, and for Heroku on Nov. 12, 2024.