The Basics
DigitalOcean | Render | |
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Website | digitalocean.com | render.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2011 | 2018 |
Data Center Locations | 14 | 4 |
Example Customers | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai | Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt |
DigitalOcean | |
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Website | digitalocean.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2011 |
Data Center Locations | 14 |
Example Customers | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai |
Render | |
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Website | render.com |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2018 |
Data Center Locations | 4 |
Example Customers | Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt |
Cost Comparison
How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Render?
Example configuration | DigitalOcean | Render |
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VM Small | $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) | $25.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service) |
VM Medium | $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) | $175.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service) |
VM Large | $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | $450.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service) |
Block Storage | $10.00 / mo 100 GB | $25.00 / mo 100 GB |
Object Storage | $20.00 / mo 1 TiB | -- |
Load Balancer | $12.00 / mo | Included in plan |
Managed PostgreSQL | $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage | $95.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage |
Managed Redis®* | $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | $32.00 / mo 1 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 | 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan |
1 TB of egress beyond allowance | $10.00 | $300.00 |
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 Render offer:
Service | DigitalOcean | Render |
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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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More comparisonsOur data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Feb. 21, 2024, and for Render on Feb. 29, 2024.