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DigitalOcean vs OVHcloud
DigitalOcean starts $1.35 per month cheaper at the entry tier. Both list a comparable number of regions. OVHcloud is the better pick for bandwidth-heavy workloads that would blow through a metered-transfer plan at another provider.
DigitalOcean
$4.00/mo entry
Developers who want a real server with predictable billing and no surprise egress invoice.
OVHcloud
$5.35/mo entry
Bandwidth-heavy workloads that would blow through a metered-transfer plan at another provider.
Specification differences
Entry plans compared line by line. Rows marked with a dash are preferences rather than measurable wins, so we do not pick a side on them.
| Attribute | DigitalOcean | OVHcloud | Better |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry plan price / month | $4.00 | $5.35 | DigitalOcean |
| Entry plan vCPU | 1 | 2 | OVHcloud |
| Entry plan RAM | 0.5 GB | 4 GB | OVHcloud |
| Entry plan storage | 10 GB | 40 GB | OVHcloud |
| Listed regions | 15 | 15 | |
| Management model | Unmanaged (you run the OS) | Unmanaged (you run the OS) | |
| Support | Ticket support on all plans; paid support tiers for faster response. | Ticket support included; paid Business and Enterprise support tiers via the OVHcloud Control Panel. | |
| Billing | Hourly metering, capped at the listed monthly price. | Month-to-month on the US VPS range, with lower per-month rates for 6- and 12-month commitments. Public Cloud instances are a separate, hourly-billed product. | |
| Free tier | No permanent free tier. Trial credit is offered to new accounts from time to time. | No free tier on the VPS range. |
Same size, side by side
The cheapest plan from each provider that meets each size, so the comparison is between equal servers rather than two entry plans. Prices include a separately-billed IPv4 address where the provider charges for one.
| Size | DigitalOcean | OVHcloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 vCPU / 1 GB | $6.00Basic 1GB · 1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GBEntry Droplet. Adequate for a single small app or a low-traffic site. | $5.35VPS-1 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GBTwo vCPUs and 4GB for about five dollars. Unlimited traffic at 500 Mbps public bandwidth. Month-to-month price; a 12-month commitment lowers it to $4.54. | OVHcloud cheaper by $0.65 |
| 2 vCPU / 4 GB | $24.00Basic 4GB · 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GBComfortable for a production app with a local database. | $5.35VPS-1 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GBTwo vCPUs and 4GB for about five dollars. Unlimited traffic at 500 Mbps public bandwidth. Month-to-month price; a 12-month commitment lowers it to $4.54. | OVHcloud cheaper by $18.65 |
| 4 vCPU / 8 GB | $48.00Basic 8GB · 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GBHeadroom for several services on one host. | $10.00VPS-2 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 75 GBFour cores and 8GB for ten dollars, at 1 Gbps with unlimited traffic. Month-to-month price; a 12-month commitment lowers it to $8.50. The tier that most directly undercuts DigitalOcean. | OVHcloud cheaper by $38.00 |
| 8 vCPU / 16 GB | $96.00Basic 16GB · 8 vCPU · 16 GB · 320 GBEight shared cores and 16GB for a busy single-server stack. | $27.50VPS-4 · 8 vCPU · 24 GB · 200 GBEight cores and 24GB of RAM, unlimited traffic at 3 Gbps. Month-to-month price; a 12-month commitment lowers it to $23.37. | OVHcloud cheaper by $68.50 |
Every provider at these sizes, ranked: 1 GB RAM · 4 GB RAM · 8 GB RAM · 16 GB RAM
Where each one wins and loses
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean built its reputation on flat monthly pricing and documentation that a solo developer can actually finish reading. Droplets are plain virtual machines: you get root access and you own the operating system, the patching and the backups. It is the usual first step off shared hosting for people who want control without a cloud-architecture certification.
Strengths
- Flat monthly price per Droplet size, so the invoice is predictable
- Generous included egress compared with the hyperscalers
- Documentation and community tutorials are unusually good
- Managed databases, object storage and Kubernetes available alongside
Weaknesses
- Unmanaged: OS updates, security hardening and backups are your job
- Fewer regions than AWS or Google Cloud
- Backups and snapshots are billed on top of the Droplet price
Support: Ticket support on all plans; paid support tiers for faster response.
Billing: Hourly metering, capped at the listed monthly price.
Free tier: No permanent free tier. Trial credit is offered to new accounts from time to time.
OVHcloud
OVHcloud runs its own datacentres and its own network, which is why the VPS list price is denominated in USD and includes unmetered traffic rather than a monthly transfer allowance. The 2027 range replaces the older Value/Essential/Comfort/Elite naming with plain VPS-1 through VPS-4 tiers, all on NVMe storage. It is a serious alternative to Hetzner if you want unmetered egress and a wider region map, and it runs its own data centres in North America as well as Europe.
Strengths
- Unlimited traffic at 500 Mbps–3 Gbps depending on tier
- Prices set in USD on the North American site, no FX drift for the invoice
- NVMe storage across the whole VPS range
- Datacentres OVHcloud actually owns, including US and EU footprints
Weaknesses
- Two vCPUs on the cheapest tier is generous, but shared and inconsistent under load
- Support quality has an uneven reputation; documentation is thinner than DigitalOcean’s
- Add-ons like backups are billed separately (from about a dollar per month)
- Historic outage record (Strasbourg fire, 2021) is worth knowing about before you rely on a single region
Support: Ticket support included; paid Business and Enterprise support tiers via the OVHcloud Control Panel.
Billing: Month-to-month on the US VPS range, with lower per-month rates for 6- and 12-month commitments. Public Cloud instances are a separate, hourly-billed product.
Free tier: No free tier on the VPS range.
The full cost stack
What a server costs beyond its sticker price, shown for 2 vCPU / 4 GB. Only figures read from each provider's own documentation appear; a gap says “not captured yet”.
| Item | DigitalOcean | OVHcloud |
|---|---|---|
| Plan (2 vCPU / 4 GB) | $24.00 | $5.35 |
| Automatic backups | 20% = +$4.80 ($28.80 total) | not captured yet |
| Outbound traffic beyond the allowance | $0.01/GB over allowance | not captured yet |
| Smallest managed load balancer | $12.00/mo | not captured yet |
Sources: docs.digitalocean.com · docs.digitalocean.com · docs.digitalocean.com
Price changes we have logged
No tracked price change for either provider yet.
Full record at the change log.
Every plan
The complete plan ladders, with the date and source of every price, are on each provider's page: DigitalOcean and OVHcloud.
All figures are the providers' own published list prices in USD, on-demand monthly. The index was last refreshed 2026-10-14, and every row shows the date its own price was read. Nothing here is live or negotiated pricing. Where a provider bills a public IPv4 address on top, it is added to the monthly price, the ranking and every cost per vCPU or per GB, and the row shows the parts: the server, any disk priced apart, and the IPv4 charge. Some prices exclude VAT or need a commitment; the plan notes say which. Check the provider's pricing page before you commit.
Related comparisons
Where both sell
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DigitalOcean vs OVHcloud — frequently asked
Every answer is computed from this pair's own prices and costs.
- Which is cheaper for 1 vCPU / 1 GB, DigitalOcean or OVHcloud?
- OVHcloud VPS-1 at $5.35/mo, which is $0.65 (11%) less than DigitalOcean Basic 1GB at $6.00/mo.
- How many datacentre locations do DigitalOcean and OVHcloud have?
- DigitalOcean lists 15 and OVHcloud lists 15.
- What do backups add at DigitalOcean and OVHcloud?
- DigitalOcean: 20% of the plan price; OVHcloud: not captured yet.