DigitalOcean alternatives
Every VPS and cloud provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers DigitalOcean's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from DigitalOcean's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- Oracle CloudKind of free offer: Always free vs Free tier
- Google CloudKind of free offer: Always free vs Free tier
- HetznerDocker deployment: Limited vs Supported · Containers: Limited vs Supported
- netcupContainers: Limited vs Supported
- LeasewebEntry paid plan: €4.99/month excluding VAT for Leaseweb VPS 1 (4 vCPU, 6 GiB, 100 GB NVMe, 30 TB traffic)…
- Alibaba CloudKind of free offer: Free credit vs Free tier
- KamateraKind of free offer: Free trial vs Free tier · Docker deployment: Limited vs Supported
- OVHcloudDocker deployment: Limited vs Supported · Containers: Limited vs Supported
- ContaboDocker deployment: Limited vs Supported · Containers: Limited vs Supported
- Linode (Akamai Cloud)vs DigitalOceanKind of free offer: Free credit vs Free tier
- CivoKind of free offer: Free credit vs Free tier
- UpCloudKind of free offer: Free trial vs Free tier
- IONOS VPSKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free tier · Docker deployment: Limited vs Supported
- Vultrvs DigitalOceanEdge network: Supported vs Limited
- Hostinger VPSvs DigitalOceanKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free tier
- RackNerdKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free tier · Docker deployment: Limited vs Supported
Where DigitalOcean stands against these 16
DigitalOcean'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. 2 of the 11 alternatives that document it have one: Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud.
- Entry paid plan
- $4.00Joint 4th cheapest of the 15 that document it. Cheapest: Vultr — $2.50/month for vc2-1c-0.5gb-v6: 1 vCPU, 512 MB memory, 10 GB SSD, 512 GB bandwidth, IPv6 only — and…
- Egress over allowance
- $0.01 per GiB (Droplets); inbound transfer is free and allowances pool across the teamJoint 3rd cheapest of the 7 that document it. Cheapest: Civo — Free: Civo charges nothing for egress or ingress, so there is no per-GB overage price.
- Storage (entry plan)
- 10 GiB SSD on the cheapest Basic Droplet (Regular CPU, 512 MiB / 1 vCPU, $4.00/mo)13th highest of the 15 that document it. Highest: Contabo — 100 GB SSD on Cloud VPS 4, the smallest plan in the Core VPS line; a paid Storage Extension doubles it.
- Memory (entry plan)
- 512 MiB on the cheapest Basic Droplet (Regular CPU, 1 vCPU, $4.00/mo)Joint 13th highest of the 15 that document it. Highest: Contabo — 8 GB RAM on Cloud VPS 4, the smallest plan in the Core VPS line.
- Included bandwidth
- 500 GiB of included outbound transfer on the cheapest Basic Droplet ($4.00/mo, 512 MiB / 1 vCPU)8th highest of the 10 that document it. Highest: Leaseweb — 30 TB of outgoing traffic per month on every plan in the European, US and Singapore listings; incoming…
- File, inode or volume limit
- Up to 5000 Block Storage volumes per accountHighest of the 4 that document it. Next: Linode (Akamai Cloud) — 250 Block Storage volumes per account across all regions (default global quota; increases can be requested).
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.