Krova Cloud vs DigitalOcean
General-purpose VPS hosting — Droplets.Here is what each one costs at the same size, what they're genuinely better at, and when you should pick them instead of us.
The same machine, both prices
Priced at 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB disk, running 24/7.
Krova Cloud
$11.68/mo
$0.0160/hr · billed by the minute · no platform fee
DigitalOcean
$24.00/mo
$0.0357/hr
At this size DigitalOcean costs 2.1× more than Krova Cloud.
How we got there
DigitalOcean: A Basic (Regular) Droplet with 4 GiB RAM, 2 vCPUs and 80 GiB SSD is $0.03571/hour, $24.00/month.
Krova Cloud: $0.001/hr per vCPU, $0.0025/hr per GB RAM, $0.00005/hr per GB disk. Monthly figures are the hourly rate × 730.
DigitalOcean's figures were read from their own pricing page on . Prices change — check theirs before you decide, and tell us if this page is out of date.
What each one is better at
Where DigitalOcean is better
- A dedicated public IPv4 on every Droplet. If you specifically need one, we do not issue them.
- Fifteen datacentre regions worldwide. We run one, in Los Angeles.
- A far larger managed-services catalogue — databases, Kubernetes, load balancers, object storage.
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001. We have neither.
- Generous included transfer, from 500 GiB to several TB per Droplet.
Where Krova Cloud is better
- Roughly half the price for the same vCPU and RAM.
- Its own kernel per instance in a per-cube jailer sandbox, rather than a shared-kernel neighbourhood.
- Billed by the minute. Power a Cube off and compute billing stops the same minute.
- Any vCPU, RAM and disk combination you like, instead of fixed plan sizes.
- No inbound route until you open a port, so there is nothing to harden on day one.
Pick DigitalOcean instead if…
you need a public IPv4, a region outside the US, or their managed database and Kubernetes products.
Try it for the price of a coffee
No subscription. Load credit, spin up a Cube, and stop paying the minute you power it off.