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

Cost 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 - 50% burstable)
VM Medium $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) $27.53 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex - 50% burstable)
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 $8.50 1 TB

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 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)

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