DigitalOcean Droplets vs. Vultr

DigitalOcean Droplets

Vultr

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
DigitalOcean Droplets	Score 9.6 out of 10	N/A	DigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale.	$4 per month
Vultr	Score 8.9 out of 10	N/A	Vultr is an independent cloud computing platform on a mission to provide businesses and developers around the world with unrivaled ease of use, price-to-performance, and global reach.	$1 per month

Pricing

DigitalOcean Droplets

Vultr

Editions & Modules

Basic: $4
per month
CPU-Optimized: $42
per month
General Purpose: $63
per month
Memory-Optimized: $84
per month
Storage-Optimized: $131
per month

Block Storage: $1
per month
Cloud Compute: $2.50
per month
Object Storage: $5
per month
Kubernetes Engine: $10
per month
Load Balancers: $10
per month
Managed Databases: $15
per month
Optimized Cloud Compute: $28
per month
Cloud GPU: $90
per month
Bare Metal: $120
per month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
DigitalOcean Droplets	Vultr
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs.

Pricing is based on specifications chosen in each product category. Bandwidth is also included up to a certain amount per month.

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Community Pulse
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Vultr
Considered Both Products	DigitalOcean Droplets Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean Droplets Vultr had better performance in some instances but overall the dashboard was a mess to use a lot of times. When you zoom out from server performance and price, DigitalOcean offered more useful features, and the API was more consistent in some of the use cases we needed. Incentivized Helpful? Prashant Chaudhari Head of Engineering & Founding team member Chose DigitalOcean Droplets Cost is much lesser Interface is very easy to use Documentation is readily available for most of the usecases. Incentivized Helpful? Anuj Rai Senior Associate Technology Chose DigitalOcean Droplets The reason for selecting digital ocean was since we require a cloud solution for testing applications internally without being bothered about servers needing to be deployed in different geographical locations. As Droplets can be deployed very easily and boot faster than any … Incentivized Helpful? LA Laila Abouizza Backend Developer Chose DigitalOcean Droplets DigitalOcean Droplets has more advanced options and the devs at our team are extremely geeky and they prefer to have full control on the server via SSH rather than cPanel. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean Droplets DigitalOcean Droplets is continuously evolving to be more and more powerful. It has great features and has low cost options, which is really great for developers. Its CDN, Loadbalancer, etc. make it a good place to host a high-traffic application. Moroever, DigitalOcean … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose DigitalOcean Droplets Both Linode and DigitalOcean Droplets perform about the same and cost about the same. However we prefer the DigitalOcean Droplets interface, and the Cloud Firewall service is a must for us. Incentivized Helpful?	Vultr Isaac Gomez CTO Chose Vultr 4Thought Marketing Automation Services Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Price to performance ratio and ease of managemenated Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Cost of bandwidth and network quality for us is what mattered. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr is cheaper than most providers. Only contabo is cheaper, but they have lower uptime. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr comes in at the lower end of the spectrum in terms of the breadth of the services they provide compared to the larger vendors, but they are consistently demonstrating their commitment to growing their service offering and platform features. We selected Vultr because of … Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Honor Chief Information Officer Chose Vultr Vultr has a greater offering of servers whilst staying reasonably priced compared to some of the larger infrastructure providers. They may not have all the services as some of the other providers but they don't need it when they can do what they do with the services they provide. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Hetzner has no managed service, and EKS was roughly twice the price. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr On shared services, such as VPS, I have noticed greater confidence of usability and resource availability with Vultr. Incentivized Helpful? David Collins App developer Chose Vultr Vultr is much cheaper than AWS, and also simpler to set up and use Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr We did extensive performance comparisons and testing and Vultr was not only better priced, but much better on the performance and speed. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr AWS and Azure are too complicated and costly for small businesses like ours. Incentivized Helpful? Ben Brown Enterprise Security Solutions Architect Chose Vultr Vultr has better support and competitive pricing. The network is solid and globally deployed. IP reputation is clean, and security is tight. Ease of use and documentation is really good. User experience has been the best I ever experienced. Low stress, reliable … Incentivized Helpful? MT Mark Tenney CEO/Founder Chose Vultr The performance beats upcloud. The only thing I really liked about upcloud better was the backup offerings. They had more flexible backup plans, but I love the every other night plan on Vultr as well. Incentivized Helpful? Trevor Convirs Business Owner Chose Vultr For someone who has a more technical background, there is no competition. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr AWS and Google Cloud are great platforms, but the price is complex and their VMs are rather expensive for what they are. I believe these services may be better for more mission critical servers or taking advantage of being able to use their cloud servers rather than just run a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Server updates are clear and always noticed on the platform which my last company did not have clear. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr CloudCo was not listed. In comparison, the pricing of the competition is in a place where I wouldn't retain any margin for smaller customers, that's why I use Vultr for those. Vultr's self serve interface and UI is much better and more customizable for the general architect. If … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr has been a more cost effective solution in some areas. Compared to AWS EC2, Vultr has been a lot more cost effective for our environment. Vultr has the right vCPU, RAM, and storage for our needs. In the object storage space, Vultr has not been the best fit for our … Incentivized Helpful? HB Hector Burciaga CEO Chose Vultr Vultr offers the same services as all the major cloud providers however Vulr offers a clear pricing modeling with no hidden fees. This has been incisive in deciding which provider to go with. I have never encountered any downtime with their services Technically, Vultr has the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Incredible performance to cost ratio. I absolutely love Vultr for minimizing costs associated with running a one-man operation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr They are very similar but we are more comfortable with Vultr Incentivized Helpful? BJ Brian Johnson Business Owner Chose Vultr From the perspective of the above, Vultr provides the best balance of cost vs. performance for us. Cloudways stacks a large fee for each VPS you spin up, and this quickly escalates. Linode comes closest (at least when I used it a few years ago) to Vultr, and 3 years ago this … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr is much easier to get started with, less things to configure, a simpler interface. To deploy and manage a server is much easier. I am sure for a production SaaS app there are features in AWS and Azure that are needed, but for dev/test environment, I prefer Vultr. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr It is reliable, stable and very manageable, but, I think, very expensive too Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Vultr Vultr is a dream to use after coming from AWS - the products are intuitively named, don't require gaining a certification to use, and have better documentation. Vultr's documentation is a little less comprehensive and organized than google cloud's; however, its pricing and … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

DigitalOcean Droplets

Vultr

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)

Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
	DigitalOcean Droplets 8.8 Ratings 7% above category average	Vultr 8.6 Ratings 4% above category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime	10.00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
Dynamic scaling	10.00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Elastic load balancing	5.00 Ratings	9.30 Ratings
Pre-configured templates	5.00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Monitoring tools	10.00 Ratings	6.30 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images	9.00 Ratings	8.70 Ratings
Operating system support	10.00 Ratings	9.20 Ratings
Security controls	10.00 Ratings	8.40 Ratings
Automation	10.00 Ratings	8.70 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Vultr
Small Businesses	Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Score 8.8 out of 10	DigitalOcean Droplets Score 9.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10	SAP on IBM Cloud Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Vultr
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	8.9 (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (0 ratings)	7.3 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.6 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	DigitalOcean Droplets	Vultr
Likelihood to Recommend	There are some other platforms that compete with DigitalOcean Droplets that have more performant servers for a very minimal price decrease. However, DigitalOcean's servers still have great performance, and the experience is better when you consider the developer console, managed options, and uptime that DigitalOcean offers. DigitalOcean is the better all-around package. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Vultr is amazing for anyone who needs a server and wants to spend time taking care of it, or for someone who wants in on it. WordPress Minecraft kids can use Votr. The scenario is not as appropriate for the people who do not have as much technical knowledge and capacity and don't want to invest in it, not because of Votr itself, but because VPS is not kids' play. Even though we have a Minecraft server and they're quite easy, there will come a time when, if you put your business infrastructure inside Vultr or any VPS, you need to take care of it. Otherwise, it will have a problem. Rodrigo Nask Founder Read full review
Pros	Simplicity to scale services--the interface is very quick and effective to use Reliability--this is key for us, as any downtime effects our reputation Keeps the costs down--hosting our own equivalent infrastructure would cost a lot more Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The uptime is perfect . If there are any downtimes it is well informed and its in non - production hours to ensure that the systems are not hit Accessibility and the dashboard is amazing where you have full control over the VPS system. The flexibility of OS on which to create your VPS is also amazing . Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	In terms of an availability zone, they have limitations not available in most of the geographical locations. No live support is available which can cause problem if you have outage. Number of service is quite limited. Incentivized Anuj Rai Senior Associate Technology Read full review	the ability of increasing a specific configuration without the need of upgrading the whole plan, for example i might need to add more memory but i'm satisfied with my current processors and hard disk capacity (or vise versa) Solving the problems of taking an image to the server if the server capacity (hard disk) is bigger than 1TB (which i'm currently facing a big problem because of that) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	Just a great product with no bells and whistles, which is the advantage. We spend very little time learning and using Vultr and more time using the systems we have in Vultr to complete our tasks. Not having to worry about the IT overhead is huge and saves a great deal of time Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	Other platforms dashboard console is more difficult to use. DigitalOcean's dashboard is clean, simple, and straightforward Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	easy to use and configure. great bang for the buck. I need an affordable solution to host in the cloud data from systems installed at our client's site with the ability to drill down and change the configuration remotely. Vultr enabled us to do that in an efficient and affordable way. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Vultr makes it easy to contact technical support. The techs are very competent. In a number of occasions they have bounced the responsibility back to me when they could have saved us all time and heartache by simply implementing the solution directly Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	Vultr implementation seemed based on open-source tools and basic cloud principles - some things were more complicated to do compared with more developed cloud providers, but on the other hand it was more extensible by open-source tools. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	DigitalOcean Droplets has more advanced options and the devs at our team are extremely geeky and they prefer to have full control on the server via SSH rather than cPanel. Incentivized LA Laila Abouizza Backend Developer Read full review	Vultr has better support and competitive pricing. The network is solid and globally deployed. IP reputation is clean, and security is tight. Ease of use and documentation is really good. User experience has been the best I ever experienced. Low stress, reliable hosting I would recommend to anyone. It helped me easily scale and expand my business. Incentivized Ben Brown Enterprise Security Solutions Architect Read full review
Return on Investment	Digital Ocean has been great helping us move web apps to the cloud Digital Ocean has been really helpful when hiring contractors The interface could use some work, but overall its not terrible Incentivized Tom Blazek IT Manager Read full review	Moving from Cloudways to Vultr (with GridPane) has saved us over $100 per month. Placing servers near customer's clients is invaluable. Customers notice. Wordpress performance on Vultr servers is great. We've had reduced TTFB from Cloudways in the region of 60-80%. BJ Brian Johnson Business Owner Read full review
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