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Load Balancers · $12/mo
DigitalOcean's $12/mo Global Load Balancer is moderately priced but lacks a published SLA and has per-GB overage charges. Several competitors offer comparable or better load-balancing features at lower entry prices, though most carry their own hidden costs and regional pricing variations.
Half the price of DigitalOcean with 200GB transfer included, 200 Mbps throughput, and a published 99.99% SLA.
Caveat: IPv4 addresses billed separately; APAC regions lose free egress after mid-2026; lower throughput (250 conn/s, 10k req/s) than typical enterprise LBs.
Entry load balancer at 38% savings with TLS termination, 10k connections, and up to 25 services; 99.9% SLA and 20TB traffic pool in EU.
Caveat: Prices recently raised 36-39% in April 2026; traffic overage rates vary sharply by region (USA/Singapore as low as 0.5-1TB); VAT excluded from listed price.
17% cheaper than DigitalOcean with a published 100% network uptime SLA and regional load balancing.
Caveat: Bandwidth overage rates vary by data center; no explicit transfer allowance stated; Windows licensing not included.
Matches Vultr's price with a 99.99% SLA and pooled network transfer allowance; flat-rate load balancer with no per-connection charges.
Caveat: Outbound transfer billed at $0.015/GB once allowance exceeded (higher than DigitalOcean's $0.01/GB); allowance amount not specified in tier description.
CDN-backed option at same price as regional LB with 100% network uptime SLA, directly comparable to DigitalOcean's CDN-backed Global tier.
Caveat: Flat rate plus bandwidth usage model; overage rates vary by data center location; no explicit transfer allowance.
Before you switch
| Provider | Plan | Price | Specs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fly.io | Private Networking / Egress · North America / Europe - private cross-region | $0.01/mo | WireGuard (6PN) private cross-region transfer, per GB, North America and Europe. Within-region private transfer is free. | Visit |
| Bunny CDN | CDN · Europe & North America | $0.01/mo | Standard Network CDN, per-GB pay-as-you-go rate for Europe & North America. | Visit |
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Outbound Data Transfer · Prior policy: overage to internet | $0.01/mo | Legacy per-GB overage rate beyond the 10TB free allowance, prior to the stated 2026 free-egress policy change | Visit |
| Fly.io | IP Addresses & Certificates · SSL certificate (single hostname) | $0.1/mo | Per custom hostname; first 10 certificates free per organization. | Visit |
| IONOS | Cloud DNS · DNS Zone | $1.65/mo | Priced per zone per 30 days. | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Gateway · Gateway S | $2.34/mo | 200 Mbps public network | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Floating IP · Floating IP IPv4 (/32) | $2.34/mo | Reassignable public IPv4 address, /32. | Visit |
| AWS Lightsail | CDN · 50 GB transfer | $2.5/mo | First year free | Visit |
| Vultr | Direct Connect · 50 Mbps Hosted | $5/mo | Visit | |
| IONOS | Additional Static IPv4 · Additional Static IPv4 | $6/mo | Per additional static IPv4 address per 30 days | Visit |
| OVHcloud | Load Balancer · Load Balancer S | $6.94/mo | 200 Mbps, 250 connections/s, 10000 req/s | Visit |
| Hetzner | Load Balancers · LB11 | $7.49/mo | Entry load balancer: up to 25 services, 10,000 connections, HTTP/HTTPS/TCP with TLS termination included. Price raised from 0.0088/h in April 2026 adjustment. | Visit |
| IONOS | Managed Load Balancer · Application LB - additional rules | $8.64/mo | Per additional rule beyond first 5 | Visit |
| Vultr | CDN · CDN | $10/mo | Flat rate plus bandwidth usage | Visit |
| Vultr | Load Balancers · Regional | $10/mo | Visit |
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