DigitalOcean
vs
OVH
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
- No egress or object storage request fees in most locations
- Bare metal, VPS and public cloud from one provider
- 40+ datacenters across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific
- European-based, may ease GDPR compliance
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | DigitalOcean | OVH | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $6.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) | $5.35 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (VPS-1) | 11% cheaper on OVH |
| Medium VM | $48.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) | $10.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VPS-2) | 4.8x more expensive on DigitalOcean |
| Large VM | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | $27.50 /mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM (VPS-4) | 6.1x more expensive on DigitalOcean |
| Block storage | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | $9.50 /mo 100 GB (High Speed, 3,000 IOPS) | 5% cheaper on OVH |
| Object storage | $20.00 /mo 1 TB | $8.19 /mo 1 TB (Standard, 1-AZ) | 2.4x more expensive on DigitalOcean |
| PostgreSQL | $60.90 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage | $63.36 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Discovery DB1-4) | Within 5% |
| Redis | $15.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Valkey) | $55.01 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Discovery DB1-4, Valkey) | 3.7x more expensive on OVH |
| Load balancer | $12.00 /mo Regional HTTP, 1 node | $6.84 /mo 200 Mbps (Load Balancer S) · Node only. A floating IP adds $2.30 / mo. | 43% cheaper on OVH |
| 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 Billed in Singapore and Sydney |
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 OVH offers 9. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | DigitalOcean | OVH | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
3 configs · 3 configs
|
$4.41 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.99 /GPU/hr On-demand | 32% cheaper on OVH |
|
H200
3 configs · 1 config
|
$4.47 /GPU/hr On-demand | $6.20 /GPU/hr On-demand | 28% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
|
L40S
1 config · 3 configs
|
$1.57 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | 13% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
|
B300
2 configs
|
$7.94 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | -- | DigitalOcean only |
MI300X
3 configs
|
$1.91 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
MI355X
1 config
|
$4.50 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
RTX 6000 Ada
1 config
|
$1.57 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
A100
3 configs
|
-- | $3.07 /GPU/hr On-demand | OVH only |
|
L4
3 configs
|
-- | $1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | OVH only |
|
V100
3 configs
|
-- | $0.77 /GPU/hr On-demand | OVH only |
DigitalOcean bills on-demand, spot and reserved (12 months); OVH bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | DigitalOcean | OVH |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 | 1999 |
| Headquarters | USA | France |
| Locations | 16 | 19 |
| Example customers | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai | AnyDesk, Sopra Steria, Floatplane, German Federal Police |
| Website | digitalocean.com | www.ovhcloud.com |
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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Sept. 16, 2026, and for OVH on Sept. 16, 2026.