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 Koyeb

  • Generous free tier, competitive pricing
  • Easy to use, integrations with popular tools such as Terraform and Pulumi
  • Serverless PostgreSQL available
  • Based in the EU, may ease compliance requirements

Price comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Koyeb?

Example configuration DigitalOcean Koyeb
VM Small $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) $10.71 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (eMedium)
VM Medium $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) $42.85 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (eXLarge)
VM Large $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) $85.71 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (e2XLarge)
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 $104.81 / mo 1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Large), 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 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 100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $10.00 $40.00 $0.04 / GB

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 Koyeb offer:

Service DigitalOcean Koyeb
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
Koyeb
Website koyeb.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 2020
Data Center Locations 6
Example Customers --

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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for Koyeb on July 24, 2024.