DigitalOcean App Platform alternatives
Every application platforms provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers DigitalOcean App Platform's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from DigitalOcean App Platform's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- Rendervs DigitalOcean App PlatformWhat the free plan includes: Free instances of web services, Render Postgres and Key Value, plus static sites at no ch…
- Google Cloud RunAutoscaling: Supported vs Limited
- RailwayEntry paid plan: $5 / month (Hobby)
- Azure Container AppsWhat the free plan includes: Per subscription, per calendar month: 180,000 vCPU-seconds, 360,000 GiB-seconds and 2 mil…
- Fly.ioFree tier: No vs Yes
- NhostEntry paid plan: $25/month for Pro is a plan fee that includes $15 of compute credits, not the cost of a r…
- KoyebAutoscaling: Supported vs Limited
- Cloudflare WorkersEntry paid plan: $5/month minimum charge for an account on the Workers Paid plan, which covers Workers, Pa…
- ZeaburEntry paid plan: $5/month for the Dev plan, with the first 14 days free. The fee buys platform features; t…
- HerokuEntry paid plan: $5 per month (Eco dynos plan, 1000 dyno hours shared across the account)
Where DigitalOcean App Platform stands against these 10
DigitalOcean App Platform's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- Yes. 8 of the 9 alternatives that document it have one: Azure Container Apps, Cloudflare Workers, Google Cloud Run, Koyeb, Nhost, Railway and 2 more.
- Entry paid plan
- $5.00 per month for the smallest container: 1 shared vCPU, 512 MiB of RAM and 50 GiB of bandwidthJoint cheapest of the 7 that document it. Level with: Cloudflare Workers — $5/month minimum charge for an account on the Workers Paid plan, which covers Workers, Pages Functions…
- Memory (entry plan)
- 512 MiB on the $5.00 container, the cheapest paid size; 1 GiB from $10.00Joint highest of the 4 that document it. Level with: Heroku — 0.5 GB RAM on the Eco dyno ($5 flat/month, the cheapest paid dyno) and 0.5 GB on Basic.
- Regions
- Thirteen regions: NYC, AMS, SFO, SGP, LON, FRA, TOR, BLR, SYD, ATL, RIC, MKC and MEM3rd highest of the 6 that document it. Highest: Google Cloud Run — 43 regions, counted from Cloud Run's own locations list — Google publishes the list rather than a total. 20…
- Uptime SLA
- 99.95% monthly uptime, promised separately for each App Platform App Component Instance rather than for the…Joint 2nd highest of the 4 that document it. Highest: Cloudflare Workers — 99.99% monthly uptime, in a dedicated Workers SLA that applies to use of Workers only and names no plan tier.
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.