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) | 79% cheaper on OVH |
| Large VM | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | $27.50 /mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM (VPS-4) | 84% cheaper on OVH |
| 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) | 59% cheaper on OVH |
| 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) | 73% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| 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
|
$2.97 /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.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | DigitalOcean | OVH |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Data centers only | Yes |
| HIPAA | Yes | US data centers only |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | SAQ-A | Level 1, Hosted Private Cloud only |
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 | 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 Oct. 6, 2026, and for OVH on Oct. 6, 2026.