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Cloudways

Managed cloud hosting reselling DigitalOcean, AWS, Google Cloud, Vultr, and Linode capacity with a managed layer on top.

Last updated 2026-07-18

Starting price
$0.03/mo
Uptime SLA
99.99%
Storage
SSD
Regions
30
Managed K8s
Yes
Compliance
GDPR
Best forWordPress agenciesE-commerce (WooCommerce/Magento)Developers wanting managed infra without lock-in to one cloud

Products and pricing

52 tiers

Cloudways-managed VMs on DigitalOcean droplets: Basic, General Purpose, and CPU-Optimized lines, each in Standard or Premium (NVMe) variants.

TierPriceRAMvCPUDiskTransferCompare
Basic Standard 1GB$11/mo ($0.0357/hr)1 GB1 vCPU25 GB SSD1000 GBCompare alternatives
Basic Standard 2GB$24/mo2 GB1 vCPU50 GB SSD2000 GBCompare alternatives
Basic Standard 4GB$46/mo4 GB2 vCPU80 GB SSD4000 GBCompare alternatives
Basic Standard 8GB$88/mo ($0.131/hr)8 GB4 vCPU160 GB SSD5000 GBCompare alternatives
Basic Standard 16GB (APPROX)$149/mo16 GB6 vCPU320 GB SSD-Compare alternatives
Basic Standard 192GB (APPROX, top tier)$1056/moAPPROX -- third-party sourced only, top of Standard line: 192 GiB RAM; exact vCPU/storage/bandwidth not independently confirmedn/an/aCompare alternatives
Basic Standard 8XL (128GB, site example)$342/mo ($1.0848/hr)128 GB24 vCPU2560 GB SSD11000 GBCompare alternatives
Basic Premium 1GB$14/mo1 GB1 vCPU25 GB NVMe SSD1000 GBCompare alternatives
Basic Premium 2GB$28/mo2 GB1 vCPU50 GB NVMe SSD2000 GBCompare alternatives
Basic Premium 4GB$54/mo4 GB2 vCPU80 GB NVMe SSD4000 GBCompare alternatives
Basic Premium 8GB$107/mo8 GB4 vCPU160 GB NVMe SSD5000 GBCompare alternatives
Basic Premium Large (8-192GB, site example)$99/mo8 GB4 vCPU160 GB NVMe SSD5000 GBCompare alternatives
General Purpose Standard Large 8GB$98/mo8 GB2 vCPU25 GB SSD4000 GBCompare alternatives
General Purpose Standard XL 16GB$186/mo16 GB4 vCPU50 GB SSD5000 GBCompare alternatives
General Purpose Standard 2XL 32GB$345/mo32 GB8 vCPU100 GB SSD6000 GBCompare alternatives
General Purpose Standard 4XL 64GB+ (APPROX)$598/mo64 GB16 vCPU200 GB SSD7000 GBCompare alternatives
General Purpose Premium Large 8GB$106/mo8 GB2 vCPU25 GB NVMe SSD4000 GBCompare alternatives
General Purpose Premium XL 16GB$216/mo16 GB4 vCPU50 GB NVMe SSD5000 GBCompare alternatives
General Purpose Premium 2XL 32GB$395/mo32 GB8 vCPU100 GB NVMe SSD6000 GBCompare alternatives
General Purpose Premium 4XL 64GB+ (APPROX)$699/mo64 GB16 vCPU200 GB NVMe SSD7000 GBCompare alternatives
CPU-Optimized Standard Medium 4GB$72/mo4 GB2 vCPU25 GB SSD4000 GBCompare alternatives
CPU-Optimized Standard Large 8GB$134/mo8 GB4 vCPU50 GB SSD5000 GBCompare alternatives
CPU-Optimized Standard XL 16GB$236/mo16 GB8 vCPU100 GB SSD6000 GBCompare alternatives
CPU-Optimized Standard 2XL 32GB+ (APPROX)$430/mo32 GB16 vCPU200 GB SSD7000 GBCompare alternatives
CPU-Optimized Premium Large 8GB$164/mo8 GB4 vCPU50 GB NVMe SSD5000 GBCompare alternatives
CPU-Optimized Premium XL 16GB$308/mo16 GB8 vCPU100 GB NVMe SSD6000 GBCompare alternatives
CPU-Optimized Premium 2XL 32GB$530/mo32 GB16 vCPU200 GB NVMe SSD7000 GBCompare alternatives
CPU-Optimized Premium 4XL 64GB+ (APPROX)$967/mo64 GB32 vCPU400 GB NVMe SSD9000 GBCompare alternatives

Cloudways-managed VMs on Vultr High Frequency compute instances.

TierPriceRAMvCPUDiskTransferCompare
High Frequency 1GB$14/mo1 GB1 vCPU25 GB SSD1000 GBCompare alternatives
High Frequency 1GB NVMe (alt SKU)$16/mo1 GB1 vCPU32 GB NVMe SSD2000 GBCompare alternatives
High Frequency 2GB$28/mo2 GB1 vCPU50 GB SSD2000 GBCompare alternatives
High Frequency 4GB$44/mo4 GB2 vCPU80 GB SSD3000 GBCompare alternatives
High Frequency 8GB$107/mo8 GB4 vCPU160 GB SSD4000 GBCompare alternatives
Site-example Micro/Small (shared UI tier)$11/mo ($0.0357/hr)2 GB1 vCPU50 GB SSD2000 GBCompare alternatives
Site-example Medium (shared UI tier)$88/mo ($0.131/hr)8 GB4 vCPU160 GB SSD5000 GBCompare alternatives
Site-example 8XL (shared UI tier, top)$342/mo ($1.0848/hr)128 GB24 vCPU2560 GB SSD11000 GBCompare alternatives

Cloudways-managed VMs on Linode (Akamai) compute instances.

TierPriceRAMvCPUDiskTransferCompare
Linode 1GB$14/mo1 GB1 vCPU25 GB SSD1000 GBCompare alternatives

Cloudways-managed VMs on Amazon EC2.

TierPriceRAMvCPUDiskTransferCompare
AWS 1GB entry$20.56/mo1 GB1 vCPU--Compare alternatives
AWS 2GB entry$38.56/mo1.75 GB1 vCPU20 GB SSD2 GBCompare alternatives

Cloudways-managed VMs on Google Compute Engine.

TierPriceRAMvCPUDiskTransferCompare
GCE 1.7GB entry$37.33/mo1.69921875 GB1 vCPU20 GB SSD-Compare alternatives

Fully-managed, autoscaling WordPress hosting with Kubernetes-based load balancing and bundled Cloudflare Enterprise CDN.

TierPriceRAMvCPUDiskTransferCompare
Free Trial$0/mo1 baseline server, 20 GiB disk, 150 GiB bandwidth, 3-day trial, no credit card requiredn/an/aCompare alternatives
Growth$99/mo1 baseline server, 20 GiB disk (overage $1/GiB), 150 GiB bandwidth (overage $0.04/GiB), autoscaling $0.07-$0.12/hr/server, Cloudflare Enterprise CDN bundledn/an/aCompare alternatives
Scale$199/mo2 baseline servers, 50 GiB disk (overage $1/GiB), 250 GiB bandwidth (overage $0.04/GiB), autoscaling $0.07-$0.12/hr/server, Cloudflare Enterprise CDN bundled -- marked "Recommended" on siten/an/aCompare alternatives
Plus$399/mo3 baseline servers, 100 GiB disk (overage $1/GiB), 1000 GiB bandwidth (overage $0.04/GiB), autoscaling $0.07-$0.12/hr/server, Cloudflare Enterprise CDN bundledn/an/aCompare alternatives
Enterprise$0/moCustom baseline servers/disk/bandwidth -- contact sales for quote, no public numeric pricing availablen/an/aCompare alternatives

Optional per-feature add-on services layered on top of any Cloudways plan.

TierPriceRAMvCPUDiskTransferCompare
Cloudflare Enterprise CDN$4.99/moPer domain per month; bundled free within Cloudways Autonomous plansn/an/aCompare alternatives
Site Manager$3/moPer app per monthn/an/aCompare alternatives
Malware Protection$4/moPer app per monthn/an/aCompare alternatives
Rackspace Email$1/moPer mailbox per monthn/an/aCompare alternatives
DNS Made Easy$0.5/moPer domain per monthn/an/aCompare alternatives
Advanced Support$100/moPer account per month; promotional 75% lifetime discount reduces to $25/mon/an/aCompare alternatives
Offsite Backup Storage$0.03/moPer GiB per server per month (billed as a rate, not a flat monthly tier)n/an/aCompare alternatives

Price history

We keep every price we've ever captured for Cloudways, so you can see whether a plan's price is holding, creeping up, or recently dropped — before you commit.

$11Jul 18, 2026: $11/moJul 18, 2026Today$11/mo
Current
$11/mo
Lowest tracked
$11/mo
Highest tracked
$11/mo
Price changes
0
Tracked since
Jul 18, 2026

Cloudways hasn't changed this price since we started tracking it. Every future change lands on this chart automatically.

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Hidden costs

  • Bandwidth overages billed per-GB and vary by underlying cloud: DigitalOcean $0.02/GB, AWS $0.12/GB, GCP $0.10-$0.17/GB
  • Offsite backup storage billed at $0.033/GB per server
  • Cloudways Autonomous disk overage $1/GB and bandwidth overage $0.04/GB beyond plan baseline
  • Cloudways Autonomous autoscaling billed $0.07-$0.12/hour/server depending on tier
  • Add-ons (Cloudflare Enterprise CDN, Site Manager, Malware Protection, Rackspace Email, DNS Made Easy, Advanced Support) are all separate recurring fees not included in base server price

Runs these stacks well

  • Laravel

    Cloudways' managed PHP stack (Nginx, PHP-FPM, Redis) is purpose-built for Laravel.

  • Symfony

    Cloudways' managed PHP stack handles Symfony's PHP-FPM/Composer requirements directly.

  • PHP

    Cloudways' managed PHP-FPM stack is purpose-built for PHP apps of any framework.

  • WordPress (headless/API)

    Cloudways' managed WordPress stack handles the PHP backend while you pair any static frontend.

  • Joomla

    Cloudways' managed PHP-FPM stack handles Joomla's PHP/MySQL requirements directly.

  • Drupal

    Cloudways' managed PHP stack gives the resource headroom and caching Drupal typically needs.

  • WordPress (managed hosting)

    Cloudways offers managed WordPress on your choice of cloud infrastructure with server management handled for you.

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