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 OVHcloud

  • Wide range of managed services and VPS configurations
  • Competitive prices, unlimited free egress
  • 10+ data center locations
  • European-based, may ease GDPR compliance requirements

Price comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against OVHcloud?

Example configuration DigitalOcean OVHcloud
VM Small $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) $36.58 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (b3-8)
VM Medium $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) $73.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (b3-16)
VM Large $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) $130.54 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (c3-16)
Block Storage $10.00 / mo 100 GB $9.50 / mo 100 GB (3000 IOPS)
Object Storage $20.00 / mo 1 TiB $10.75 / mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB read
Load Balancer $12.00 / mo $45.58 / mo Large 2 Gbps
Managed PostgreSQL $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage $51.26 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Essential DB1-4)
Managed Redis®* $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM $44.57 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Essential DB1-4)
Serverless 25M Executions $34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration --
Free egress allowance 100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $10.00 $0.01 / GB Free and unlimited Reduced bandwidth may apply

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

OVH offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
t1-le-45 1x V100 16GB 8 45GB $0.77 Source
t2-le-45 1x V100S 32GB 15 45GB $0.88 Source
l4-90 1x L4 24GB 22 90GB $1.00 Source
t1-le-90 2x V100 32GB 16 90GB $1.55 Source
t2-le-90 2x V100S 64GB 30 90GB $1.76 Source
l40s-90 1x L40S 48GB 15 90GB $1.80 Source
t1-45 1x V100 16GB 8 45GB $1.97 Source
l4-180 2x L4 48GB 45 180GB $2.00 Source
t2-45 1x V100S 32GB 15 45GB $2.19 Source
h100-380 1x H100 80GB 30 380GB $2.99 Source
a100-180 1x A100 80GB 15 180GB $3.07 Source
t1-le-180 4x V100 64GB 32 180GB $3.10 Source
t2-le-180 4x V100S 128GB 60 180GB $3.53 Source
l40s-180 2x L40S 96GB 30 180GB $3.60 Source
t1-90 2x V100 32GB 18 90GB $3.94 Source
l4-360 4x L4 96GB 90 360GB $4.00 Source
t2-90 2x V100S 64GB 30 90GB $4.38 Source
h100-760 2x H100 160GB 60 760GB $5.98 Source
a100-360 2x A100 160GB 30 360GB $6.15 Source
l40s-360 4x L40S 192GB 60 360GB $7.20 Source
t1-180 4x V100 64GB 36 180GB $7.89 Source
t2-180 4x V100S 128GB 60 180GB $8.76 Source
h100-1520 4x H100 320GB 120 1520GB $11.97 Source
a100-720 4x A100 320GB 60 720GB $12.29 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 OVHcloud offer:

Service DigitalOcean OVHcloud
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
OVHcloud
Website www.ovhcloud.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 1999
Data Center Locations 12
Example Customers Société Générale, Louis Vuitton, Capgemini, Tenesys

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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Dec. 12, 2024, and for OVHcloud on Oct. 7, 2024.