DigitalOcean
vs
Koyeb
What's good about each
- 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
- Scale-to-zero on GPU and CPU instances
- GPUs from RTX 4000 SFF Ada to 8x H200 and B200
- Serverless Postgres that sleeps when idle
- Free web service and Postgres database for testing
- EU-based, with Paris and Frankfurt regions
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | DigitalOcean | Koyeb | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $6.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) | $10.37 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB SSD (small) | 42% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Medium VM | $48.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) | $41.47 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD (eco-xlarge) | 14% cheaper on Koyeb |
| Large VM | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | $82.94 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD (eco-2xlarge) | 51% cheaper on Koyeb |
| Block storage | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $20.00 /mo 1 TB | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $60.90 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage | $140.20 /mo 1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Large) | 57% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Redis | $15.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Valkey) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $12.00 /mo Regional HTTP, 1 node | Included in plan | |
| Serverless | $34.69 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | 500 GB - 12 TB / mo per instance, pooled | 1 TB / mo | |
| Egress | $10.00 /TB $0.01 / GB | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB · US and EU regions, Asia is $0.04 / GB | 50% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
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
DigitalOcean offers 10 GPU models, while Koyeb offers 9. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | DigitalOcean | Koyeb | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
3 configs · 4 configs
|
$4.41 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 43% cheaper on Koyeb |
|
H200
3 configs · 4 configs
|
$4.47 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 33% cheaper on Koyeb |
|
L40S
1 config · 1 config
|
$1.57 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.20 /GPU/hr On-demand | 24% cheaper on Koyeb |
|
B300
2 configs
|
$7.94 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | -- | DigitalOcean only |
MI355X
1 config
|
$2.97 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
MI300X
3 configs
|
$1.91 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
RTX 6000 Ada
1 config
|
$1.57 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
B200
1 config
|
-- | $5.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Koyeb only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config
|
-- | $2.20 /GPU/hr On-demand | Koyeb only |
|
A100
8 configs
|
-- | $1.60 /GPU/hr On-demand | Koyeb only |
DigitalOcean bills on-demand, spot and reserved (12 months); Koyeb bills on-demand. 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 | DigitalOcean | Koyeb |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Enterprise plan only |
| ISO 27001 | Data centers only | Yes |
| HIPAA | Yes | -- |
| GDPR | Yes | 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 | DigitalOcean | Koyeb |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 | 2019 |
| Headquarters | USA | France |
| Locations | 16 | 6 |
| Example customers | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai | Kong, eToro, Scenario, Strapi, Neon |
| Website | digitalocean.com | koyeb.com |
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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Koyeb on Oct. 1, 2026.