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Cloudways, a DigitalOcean subsidiary, runs and manages your server on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud and bills it hourly in one account.

Visit CloudwaysCompare with anotherChecked 18 October 2026
Cheapest, with IPv4
$14.00/mo
DigitalOcean 1GB, 1 vCPU, 1 GB, 25 GB NVMe
Public IPv4
Included
Automatic backups
Not stated
Billing
Hourly
Billed in US dollars
Datacenters
54 in 28 countries
North America, South America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Oceania, Africa
Run by
DigitalOcean
Not stated

Entry plans and the real monthly bill

In US dollars, per month, as listed by Cloudways (DigitalOcean, North America and Europe). IPv4 added where it's charged separately.

Swipe the table sideways for the price and the bill.

PlanServerTrafficPlan priceWith IPv4The bill
DigitalOcean 1GBManaged hosting stack; a public IP isn't mentioned and no IP charge is listed1 vCPU, 1 GB, 25 GB NVMeCPU share not stated1 TB$14.00Billed hourly, excl. VAT$14.00

plan $14.00IPv4 included

DigitalOcean 2GB (Small)Managed hosting stack; a public IP isn't mentioned and no IP charge is listed1 vCPU, 2 GB, 50 GB NVMeCPU share not stated2 TB$28.00Billed hourly, excl. VAT$28.00

plan $28.00IPv4 included

DigitalOcean 4GB (Medium)Managed hosting stack; a public IP isn't mentioned and no IP charge is listed2 vCPU, 4 GB, 80 GB NVMeCPU share not stated4 TB$54.00Billed hourly, excl. VAT$54.00

plan $54.00IPv4 included

DigitalOcean 8GB (Large)Managed hosting stack; a public IP isn't mentioned and no IP charge is listed4 vCPU, 8 GB, 160 GB NVMeCPU share not stated5 TB$99.00Billed hourly, excl. VAT$99.00

plan $99.00IPv4 included

Good to know

  • A public IPv4 address is included in every entry plan
  • Billed by the hour, so a test server costs cents
  • Listed prices exclude VAT

Where Cloudways has datacenters

54 in 28 countries, as listed by Cloudways.

Toronto, CanadaMontreal, Canada, Calgary, CanadaMexico City, MexicoNew York, United States, Newark, United StatesWashington, D.C., United StatesAtlanta, United StatesMiami, United StatesChicago, United StatesColumbus, United StatesDallas, United StatesSalt Lake City, United StatesLas Vegas, United StatesLos Angeles, United StatesSan Francisco, United States, Fremont, United StatesSeattle, United StatesHonolulu, United StatesSão Paulo, BrazilSantiago, ChileLondon, United KingdomManchester, United KingdomAmsterdam, NetherlandsParis, FranceFrankfurt, GermanyBerlin, GermanyZurich, SwitzerlandMilan, ItalyTurin, ItalyMadrid, SpainStockholm, SwedenWarsaw, PolandTel Aviv, IsraelDoha, QatarDubai, United Arab EmiratesMumbai, IndiaDelhi, IndiaBangalore, IndiaChennai, IndiaHyderabad, IndiaSingapore, SingaporeKuala Lumpur, MalaysiaJakarta, IndonesiaBangkok, ThailandHong Kong, Hong KongTaipei, TaiwanSeoul, South KoreaTokyo, JapanOsaka, JapanSydney, AustraliaMelbourne, AustraliaJohannesburg, South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

Europe 12

  • London, United Kingdom
  • Manchester, United Kingdom
  • Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Paris, France
  • Frankfurt, Germany
  • Berlin, Germany
  • Zurich, Switzerland
  • Milan, Italy
  • Turin, Italy
  • Madrid, Spain
  • Stockholm, Sweden
  • Warsaw, Poland

North America 19

  • Toronto, Canada
  • Montreal, Canada
  • Calgary, Canada
  • Mexico City, Mexico
  • New York, United States
  • Newark, United States
  • Washington, D.C., United States
  • Atlanta, United States
  • Miami, United States
  • Chicago, United States
  • Columbus, United States
  • Dallas, United States
  • Salt Lake City, United States
  • Las Vegas, United States
  • Los Angeles, United States
  • San Francisco, United States
  • Fremont, United States
  • Seattle, United States
  • Honolulu, United States

South America 2

  • São Paulo, Brazil
  • Santiago, Chile

Asia 14

  • Mumbai, India
  • Delhi, India
  • Bangalore, India
  • Chennai, India
  • Hyderabad, India
  • Singapore, Singapore
  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Bangkok, Thailand
  • Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Taipei, Taiwan
  • Seoul, South Korea
  • Tokyo, Japan
  • Osaka, Japan

Oceania 2

  • Sydney, Australia
  • Melbourne, Australia

Africa 2

  • Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Cape Town, South Africa

Middle East 3

  • Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Doha, Qatar
  • Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Where it stands among 43

Each fact with every host's answer. Cloudways is outlined.

Kind of host

Cloud servers

Cloud servers 14

Monthly VPS 25

Big cloud 4

Bills in

US dollars

Euros 10

US dollars 32

Swiss francs 1

Public IPv4 address

In the plan price

In the plan price 36

Charged on top 5

Not stated 2

Price after the first term

Same price

Same price 28

Goes up on renewal 11

Not stated 4

Hourly billing

Billed by the hour

Billed by the hour 19

Monthly or longer 21

Not stated 3

Dedicated CPU in entry plans

Not stated

A dedicated-CPU plan 6

Shared CPU only 13

Not stated 24

Datacenters on

4 or more

One continent 10

2 or 3 continents 13

4 or more 20

ARM servers

Not stated

Offered 7

Not offered 10

Not stated 26

Add-ons and extra charges

Public IPv4
Included Not stated whether a public IPv4 is included or what an extra one costs
Automatic backups
Not stated $0.033/GB of backup storage
Snapshots
Not stated Not stated
Extra traffic
$20.00 per TB DigitalOcean servers: $0.02 per extra GB (x 1,000; unit arithmetic). Other providers differ

How you pay

Hourly billing
YesYes Billed by active server hours, invoiced monthly in arrears
Minimum term
None (hourly) Pay-as-you-go
Setup fee
Not stated Not stated
Always-free server
None No always-free server listed
New-account credit
3-day free trial, no card required
Payment methods
Card, PayPal, Prepaid credit Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover; prepaid funds applied to invoices
Signup checks
No card needed for the trial; other checks not stated
Refunds
Unused prepaid funds within 3 months; no money-back period for usage

What you get

Processors
Intel Xeon (DigitalOcean) DigitalOcean Standard: 2nd generation or earlier Intel; Premium: 2nd or 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable
ARM servers
Not statedNot stated No Arm option stated
IPv6 included
Not statedNot stated Not stated

What comes with it

Block storage
Not statedNot stated Not stated
Object storage
Not statedNot stated Not stated
Private network
Not statedNot stated Not stated
Cloud firewall
YesYes Built-in firewall with IP blocking
Load balancers
Not statedNot stated Not stated
DDoS protection included
Not statedNot stated DDoS mitigation comes with the paid Cloudflare Enterprise add-on; included protection not stated
Managed databases
Not stated MySQL 8.4 and MariaDB 10.11 run on the server; no separate managed database service
Managed Kubernetes
Not statedNot stated Not stated
API
YesYes REST API for servers and apps
Terraform provider
Not statedNot stated Not stated
Custom ISO
Not statedNot stated Not stated; servers run Cloudways' own Debian 12 stack
Windows
Not stated Not stated; servers run Cloudways' Debian 12 stack

Who you're renting from

Company
Cloudways Services are run separately from DigitalOcean's
Owned by
DigitalOcean Cloudways is a subsidiary of DigitalOcean
Based in
Not stated Headquarters not stated on the cited pages
Founded
Not stated Not stated on the cited pages
Support
24/7 live chat and tickets Paid Advanced and Premium support add-ons
Certifications
SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS Held by the partner clouds (sets differ by provider), not Cloudways itself

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