The Basics

DigitalOcean
Website digitalocean.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2011
Data Center Locations 14
Example Customers Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai
Netlify
Website netlify.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2014
Data Center Locations 16
Example Customers Twilio, Mattel, Google, Riot Games, Mailchimp

Cost Comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Netlify?

Example configuration DigitalOcean Netlify
VM Small $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) --
VM Medium $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) --
VM Large $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) --
Block Storage $10.00 / mo 100 GB --
Object Storage $20.00 / mo 1 TiB --
Load Balancer $12.00 / mo --
Managed PostgreSQL $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 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 $950.00 / mo 25M invocations (level 2 tier)
Free egress allowance 100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $10.00 $550.00

Note: These 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 Netlify offer:

Service DigitalOcean Netlify
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) --

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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Feb. 21, 2024, and for Netlify on Feb. 10, 2024.