DigitalOcean vs Oracle Cloud

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

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

Oracle Cloud

Great price-performance ratio
Wide range of server configurations and managed services
Comprehensive hybrid and multi-cloud solutions
10 TB of free egress per month

Price comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Oracle Cloud?

Example configuration	DigitalOcean	Oracle Cloud
VM Small	$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)	$10.42 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
VM Medium	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)	$27.53 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
VM Large	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)	$92.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
Block Storage	$10.00 / mo 100 GB	$4.25 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$20.00 / mo 1 TiB	$25.57 / mo
Load Balancer	$12.00 / mo	$7.86 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage	$70.56 / mo 4 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.Flex.E4)
Managed Redis®*	$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM	$27.94 / mo 2 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	10 TB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$10.00 $0.01 / GB	$8.50 $0.0085 / GB

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

Oracle Cloud offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
BM.GPU.MI300X.8	8x MI300X	1536GB	56	2000GB	$6.00	Source

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 managed services that DigitalOcean and Oracle Cloud offer:

Service	DigitalOcean	Oracle Cloud
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	Oracle Cloud
Website	digitalocean.com	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011	2016
Data Center Locations	14	39
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia

	DigitalOcean
Website	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011
Data Center Locations	14
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai

	Oracle Cloud
Website	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2016
Data Center Locations	39
Example Customers	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia