DigitalOcean
vs
Oblivus
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
- Unmetered bandwidth, up to 100 Gb/s per node
- Reservation terms of 1-36 months
- ISO 27001, SOC 1/2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliant datacenters
- 3x replicated NVMe network storage
- Datacenters in Canada, Norway and the United States
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | DigitalOcean | Oblivus | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $6.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $48.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) | $83.52 /mo 4 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB NVMe (INTEL_XEON_x4) | 43% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Large VM | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | $167.04 /mo 8 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB NVMe (INTEL_XEON_x8) | Within 5% |
| Block storage | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | $11.09 /mo 100 GB | 10% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Object storage | $20.00 /mo 1 TB | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $60.90 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $15.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Valkey) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $12.00 /mo Regional HTTP, 1 node | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $34.69 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | 500 GB - 12 TB / mo per instance, pooled | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $10.00 /TB $0.01 / GB | Free and unlimited |
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 Oblivus offers 9. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | DigitalOcean | Oblivus | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
3 configs · 42 configs
|
$4.41 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 21% cheaper on Oblivus |
|
H200
3 configs · 5 configs
|
$4.47 /GPU/hr On-demand | $5.50 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 19% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
|
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 |
|
L40S
1 config
|
$1.57 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
B200
1 config
|
-- | $8.40 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Oblivus only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
8 configs
|
-- | $2.00 /GPU/hr Reserved (6 mo) | Oblivus only |
|
RTX 5090
4 configs
|
-- | $0.90 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Oblivus only |
|
A100
39 configs
|
-- | $0.95 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | Oblivus only |
DigitalOcean bills on-demand, spot and reserved (12 months); Oblivus bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3, 6, 12, 24 or 36 months). 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 | Oblivus |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II, data centers only |
| ISO 27001 | Data centers only | Data centers only |
| HIPAA | Yes | Data centers only |
| GDPR | 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 | Oblivus |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 16 | 3 |
| Example customers | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai | Stanford University, UCLA, UC San Diego, University of Notre Dame, Louisiana State University, University of Sydney, Bittensor, Akash, Prime Intellect, Shadeform, Strong Compute, RunComfy, VNG |
| Website | digitalocean.com | oblivus.com |
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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Oblivus on Oct. 1, 2026.