DigitalOcean vs OVHcloud

DigitalOcean is strongest for developers. OVHcloud is strongest for european data residency. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	DigitalOcean	OVHcloud
Starting price	$3.39/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Developers Startups Kubernetes	European data residency Cost-conscious scale-outs Managed databases Kubernetes AI/GPU workloads
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	99.99% (Public Cloud instances, region dependent)
Storage	SSD	NVME
Regions	15	33
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Community forum, Docs	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)
Compliance	SOC 2, GDPR	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Bandwidth overages billed at $0.01/GB past pooled allowance	IPv4 addresses billed separately per instance/Local Zone Windows license surcharge of $0.039/vCore/hour on top of base instance price APAC region (India, Singapore, Australia) outbound traffic loses free-egress status after 2026-06-01/2026-12-31 depending on product Object Storage Infrequent Access / Cold Archive / Active Archive have data-retrieval fees and minimum storage durations (30-180 days) with early-deletion penalties
Last reviewed	2026-07-01	2026-07-18