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
- $11/mo
- Uptime SLA
- 99.99%
- Storage
- SSD
- Regions
- 30
- Managed K8s
- Yes
- Compliance
- GDPR
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.
- Current
- $11/mo
- Lowest tracked
- $11/mo
- Highest tracked
- $11/mo
- Price changes
- 0
- Last checked
- Sep 28, 2026
Tracked since Jul 18, 2026. Cloudways hasn't changed this price in that time — we re-check it weekly, and each hollow point above is a check that found the same price.
Products and pricing
Cloudways-managed VMs on DigitalOcean droplets: Basic, General Purpose, and CPU-Optimized lines, each in Standard or Premium (NVMe) variants.
| Tier | Price | RAM | vCPU | Disk | Transfer | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Standard 1GB | $11/mo ($0.0164/hr) | 1 GB | 1 vCPU | 25 GB SSD | 1000 GB | |
| Basic Standard 2GB | $24/mo ($0.0357/hr) | 2 GB | 1 vCPU | 50 GB SSD | 2000 GB | |
| Basic Standard 4GB | $46/mo ($0.0685/hr) | 4 GB | 2 vCPU | 80 GB SSD | 4000 GB | |
| Basic Standard 8GB | $88/mo ($0.131/hr) | 8 GB | 4 vCPU | 160 GB SSD | 5000 GB | |
| Basic Standard 16GB (APPROX) | $149/mo ($0.2217/hr) | 16 GB | 8 vCPU | 320 GB SSD | 6000 GB | |
| Basic Standard 192GB (APPROX, top tier) | $1056/mo ($1.5714/hr) | 192 GB | 32 vCPU | 3840 GB SSD | 12000 GB | |
| Basic Standard 8XL (128GB, site example) | $729/mo ($1.0848/hr) | 128 GB | 24 vCPU | 2560 GB SSD | 11000 GB | |
| Basic Premium 1GB | $14/mo ($0.0208/hr) | 1 GB | 1 vCPU | 25 GB NVMe SSD | 1000 GB | |
| Basic Premium 2GB | $28/mo ($0.0417/hr) | 2 GB | 1 vCPU | 50 GB NVMe SSD | 2000 GB | |
| Basic Premium 4GB | $54/mo ($0.0804/hr) | 4 GB | 2 vCPU | 80 GB NVMe SSD | 4000 GB | |
| Basic Premium 8GB | $99/mo ($0.1473/hr) | 8 GB | 4 vCPU | 160 GB NVMe SSD | 5000 GB | |
| Basic Premium Large (8-192GB, site example) | $99/mo ($0.1473/hr) | 8 GB | 4 vCPU | 160 GB NVMe SSD | 5000 GB | |
| General Purpose Standard Large 8GB | $98/mo ($0.1458/hr) | 8 GB | 2 vCPU | 25 GB SSD | 4000 GB | |
| General Purpose Standard XL 16GB | $186/mo ($0.2768/hr) | 16 GB | 4 vCPU | 50 GB SSD | 5000 GB | |
| General Purpose Standard 2XL 32GB | $345/mo ($0.5134/hr) | 32 GB | 8 vCPU | 100 GB SSD | 6000 GB | |
| General Purpose Standard 4XL 64GB+ (APPROX) | $598/mo ($0.8899/hr) | 64 GB | 16 vCPU | 200 GB SSD | 7000 GB | |
| General Purpose Premium Large 8GB | $106/mo ($0.1577/hr) | 8 GB | 2 vCPU | 30 GB NVMe SSD | 4000 GB | |
| General Purpose Premium XL 16GB | $216/mo ($0.3214/hr) | 16 GB | 4 vCPU | 60 GB NVMe SSD | 5000 GB | |
| General Purpose Premium 2XL 32GB | $395/mo ($0.5878/hr) | 32 GB | 8 vCPU | 120 GB NVMe SSD | 6000 GB | |
| General Purpose Premium 4XL 64GB+ (APPROX) | $699/mo ($1.0402/hr) | 64 GB | 16 vCPU | 240 GB NVMe SSD | 7000 GB | |
| CPU-Optimized Standard Medium 4GB | $72/mo ($0.1071/hr) | 4 GB | 2 vCPU | 25 GB SSD | 4000 GB | |
| CPU-Optimized Standard Large 8GB | $134/mo ($0.1994/hr) | 8 GB | 4 vCPU | 50 GB SSD | 5000 GB | |
| CPU-Optimized Standard XL 16GB | $236/mo ($0.3512/hr) | 16 GB | 8 vCPU | 100 GB SSD | 6000 GB | |
| CPU-Optimized Standard 2XL 32GB+ (APPROX) | $430/mo ($0.6399/hr) | 32 GB | 16 vCPU | 200 GB SSD | 7000 GB | |
| CPU-Optimized Premium Large 8GB | $164/mo ($0.244/hr) | 8 GB | 4 vCPU | 50 GB NVMe SSD | 5000 GB | |
| CPU-Optimized Premium XL 16GB | $308/mo ($0.4583/hr) | 16 GB | 8 vCPU | 100 GB NVMe SSD | 6000 GB | |
| CPU-Optimized Premium 2XL 32GB | $530/mo ($0.7887/hr) | 32 GB | 16 vCPU | 200 GB NVMe SSD | 7000 GB | |
| CPU-Optimized Premium 4XL 64GB+ (APPROX) | $967/mo ($1.439/hr) | 64 GB | 32 vCPU | 400 GB NVMe SSD | 9000 GB | |
| Basic Premium XL 16GB | $170/mo ($0.253/hr) | 16 GB | 8 vCPU | 320 GB NVMe | 6000 GB | |
| Basic Standard 2XL 32GB | $240/mo ($0.3571/hr) | 32 GB | 8 vCPU | 640 GB SSD | 7000 GB | |
| Basic Premium 2XL 32GB | $279/mo ($0.4152/hr) | 32 GB | 8 vCPU | 640 GB NVMe | 7000 GB | |
| Basic Standard 3XL 48GB | $342/mo ($0.5089/hr) | 48 GB | 12 vCPU | 960 GB SSD | 8000 GB | |
| Basic Premium 3XL 48GB | $388/mo ($0.5774/hr) | 48 GB | 12 vCPU | 960 GB NVMe | 8000 GB | |
| Basic Standard 4XL 64GB | $421/mo ($0.6265/hr) | 64 GB | 16 vCPU | 1280 GB SSD | 9000 GB | |
| Basic Premium 4XL 64GB | $487/mo ($0.7247/hr) | 64 GB | 16 vCPU | 1280 GB NVMe | 9000 GB | |
| Basic Standard 6XL 96GB | $566/mo ($0.8423/hr) | 96 GB | 20 vCPU | 1920 GB SSD | 10000 GB | |
| CPU-Optimized Standard 4XL 64GB | $765/mo ($1.1384/hr) | 64 GB | 32 vCPU | 400 GB SSD | 9000 GB | |
| General Purpose Standard 8XL 128GB | $1105/mo ($1.6443/hr) | 128 GB | 32 vCPU | 400 GB SSD | 8000 GB | |
| CPU-Optimized Standard 6XL 96GB | $1105/mo ($1.6443/hr) | 96 GB | 48 vCPU | 600 GB SSD | 11000 GB | |
| General Purpose Premium 8XL 128GB | $1307/mo ($1.9449/hr) | 128 GB | 32 vCPU | 480 GB NVMe | 8000 GB | |
| General Purpose Standard 10XL 160GB | $1358/mo ($2.0208/hr) | 160 GB | 40 vCPU | 500 GB SSD | 9000 GB | |
| CPU-Optimized Premium 6XL 96GB | $1410/mo ($2.0982/hr) | 96 GB | 48 vCPU | 600 GB NVMe | 11000 GB | |
| CPU-Optimized Premium 8XL 120GB | $1739/mo ($2.5878/hr) | 120 GB | 60 vCPU | 750 GB NVMe | 12000 GB | |
| General Purpose Premium 12XL 192GB | $1914/mo ($2.8482/hr) | 192 GB | 48 vCPU | 720 GB NVMe | 9000 GB | |
| General Purpose Premium 15XL 240GB | $2369/mo ($3.5253/hr) | 240 GB | 60 vCPU | 900 GB NVMe | 10000 GB |
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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