Cheaper Cloudways (DO) alternatives
Pricing data as of 2026-06-09 · refreshed weekly
Baseline: a Laravel app with startup-level traffic (~50,000 visits/month) costs $11/month on Cloudways (DO) (DO 1GB). Every provider below can run the same workload — ranked by real list price. Cheaper is not always better: a managed-cloud platform and a raw VPS differ in how much ops work lands on you.
| Provider | Type | Plan | $/month | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hostinger (shared) | shared | Business | $3.99 | Cloudways (DO) vs Hostinger (shared) → |
| Hetzner Cloud | vps | CX23 | $4.3 | Cloudways (DO) vs Hetzner Cloud → |
| Vultr | vps | Cloud Compute 1GB | $5 | Cloudways (DO) vs Vultr → |
| Railway | paas | Hobby | $5 | Cloudways (DO) vs Railway → |
| Linode (Akamai) | vps | Nanode 1GB | $5 | Cloudways (DO) vs Linode (Akamai) → |
| Koyeb | paas | eco-small | $5.4 | Cloudways (DO) vs Koyeb → |
| Fly.io | paas | shared-cpu-1x 1GB | $5.92 | Cloudways (DO) vs Fly.io → |
| DigitalOcean Droplets | vps | Basic 1GB | $6 | Cloudways (DO) vs DigitalOcean Droplets → |
| Netcup | vps | VPS 500 G12 | $6.4 | Cloudways (DO) vs Netcup → |
| OVHcloud VPS | vps | VPS-1 | $6.46 | Cloudways (DO) vs OVHcloud VPS → |
| Hostinger VPS | vps | KVM 1 | $6.49 | Cloudways (DO) vs Hostinger VPS → |
| AWS Lightsail | vps | $7 bundle | $7 | Cloudways (DO) vs AWS Lightsail → |
| Scaleway | vps | DEV1-S | $7.1 | Cloudways (DO) vs Scaleway → |
| Render | paas | Standard | $25 | Cloudways (DO) vs Render → |
| Heroku | paas | Standard-2X | $50 | Cloudways (DO) vs Heroku → |