DigitalOcean vs HOSTKEY.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

On today's data, HOSTKEY undercuts DigitalOcean on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $2.01/GB against $8/GB. The cheapest way in is HOSTKEY at $2.84/mo (vm.pico · 1 vCPU · 1 GB). DigitalOcean counters with broader reach: 10 locations vs 1.

At 4 GB of RAM the cheaper of the two is HOSTKEY vm.mini at $5.93/mo, against DigitalOcean at $24/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

DigitalOceanall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  Basic Regular 1C · 0.5 GB · 10 GB

  1 vCPU · 512 MB · 10 GB SSD

  $4/moView at DigitalOcean ↗

HOSTKEYall plans →

• Cheapest

  vm.pico · 1 vCPU · 1 GB

  1 vCPU · 1 GB · 40 GB SSD

  $2.84/moView at HOSTKEY ↗
• Best value

  vm.mini · 4 vCPU · 6 GB

  4 vCPU · 6 GB · 120 GB SSD

  $5.93/moView at HOSTKEY ↗

compare the two best-value plans side by side →

MetricDigitalOceanHOSTKEY

Plans tracked7021

Cheapest plan$4/mo$2.84/mo

Median $/GB RAM$8/GB$2.01/GB

Avg value score27/10081/100

Locations101

Dedicated-vCPU plans393

NVMe share69%67%

Unmetered bandwidth0% of plans0% of plans

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

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DigitalOcean

Basic Regular 1C · 2 GB · 50 GB

1 vCPU · 2 GB · 50 GB SSD · $12/mo

HOSTKEYwins

vm.nano · 2 vCPU · 2 GB

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB SSD · $3.55/mo

≥ 4 GB RAM

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DigitalOcean

Basic Regular 2C · 4 GB · 80 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · $24/mo

HOSTKEYwins

vm.mini · 4 vCPU · 6 GB

4 vCPU · 6 GB · 120 GB SSD · $5.93/mo

≥ 8 GB RAM

full comparison →

DigitalOcean

Basic Premium AMD 2C · 8 GB · 100 GB

2 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB NVMe · $42/mo

HOSTKEYwins

vm.v2-mini · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 120 GB NVMe · $7.58/mo

Top value plans from each

DigitalOcean

• Basic Regular 1C · 0.5 GB · 10 GBvalue 72/100$4
• Basic Regular 1C · 1 GB · 25 GBvalue 71/100$6
• Basic Premium Intel 1C · 1 GB · 25 GBvalue 67/100$7
• Basic Premium AMD 1C · 1 GB · 25 GBvalue 67/100$7
• Basic Premium Intel 1C · 1 GB · 35 GBvalue 64/100$8

HOSTKEY

• vm.mini · 4 vCPU · 6 GBvalue 98/100$5.93
• vm.v2-mini · 4 vCPU · 8 GBvalue 97/100$7.58
• vm.medium · 6 vCPU · 12 GBvalue 96/100$11.70
• vm.nano · 2 vCPU · 2 GBvalue 95/100$3.55
• vm.v2-medium · 8 vCPU · 16 GBvalue 95/100$16.15

Prices exclude VAT, fetched 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own API or public price page. DigitalOcean data: Public pricing page · digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (embedded plan JSON). HOSTKEY data: Live web · preconfigured VPS/VDS cards on hostkey.com (Amsterdam price list, net).