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
Vultr
Website www.vultr.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2014
Data Center Locations 32
Example Customers Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield

Cost Comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Vultr?

Example configuration DigitalOcean Vultr
VM Small $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) $5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) $40.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Large $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) $160.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
Block Storage $10.00 / mo 100 GB $10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $20.00 / mo 1 TiB $6.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer $12.00 / mo $10.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 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 2 TB / mo for most services
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $10.00 $10.00

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 Vultr offer:

Service DigitalOcean Vultr
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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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Feb. 21, 2024, and for Vultr on Feb. 19, 2024.