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
Render
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
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
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) --

Related Comparisons

Want to see how DigitalOcean and Render compare against other providers? Check out these other comparisons:

More comparisons

Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Feb. 21, 2024, and for Render on Feb. 29, 2024.