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Load Balancers · $12/mo
DigitalOcean's $12/mo Load Balancer is fairly priced for L4 load balancing, but several competitors offer comparable or better value depending on your traffic patterns and regional needs. Hetzner and OVHcloud provide load balancing at lower base rates with similar feature sets, though bandwidth allowances and overage costs vary significantly.
Includes 200GB transfer and 200 Mbps throughput at less than 58% of DigitalOcean's price, with 99.99% SLA.
Caveat: Limited to 250 connections/s and 10,000 req/s; APAC regions lose free egress after mid-2026; IPv4 addresses billed separately.
Entry-level load balancer with TLS termination, up to 25 services, and 20TB EU traffic pool at 62% of DigitalOcean's cost.
Caveat: Price increased 36-39% in April 2026; USA/Singapore regions have much smaller traffic pools (0.5-1TB); VAT excluded from listed price.
Flat-rate regional load balancer at $10/mo with 100% network uptime SLA, only $2 less than DigitalOcean.
Caveat: Bandwidth overage rates vary by data center location; no stated traffic allowance.
Flat-rate load balancer with 99.99% SLA and pooled network transfer allowance; overage at $0.015/GB is competitive.
Caveat: Outbound bandwidth billed at $0.015/GB once pooled allowance exceeded, which is 50% higher than DigitalOcean's $0.01/GB.
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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