DigitalOcean Droplets vs GCP

DigitalOcean Droplets is $26/mo cheaper.

That’s $312/year.

DigitalOcean Droplets

Est. $4/mo

Simple cloud VMs (Droplets) with predictable pricing from $4/mo.

Pros of DigitalOcean Droplets

Clear pricing compared with AWS/GCP
Fast to get a server online
Great docs for beginners and indies
App Platform if you don't want to manage VMs
Solid bandwidth allowances

Cons of DigitalOcean Droplets

Fewer regions and services than AWS/Azure
Not the cheapest at large scale
Less set-and-forget than pure PaaS like Vercel
Advanced networking/IAM is thinner than big clouds

GCP

Est. $30/mo

Google's cloud, with Cloud Run for containers and BigQuery for analysis.

Pros of GCP

Cloud Run is a small step up from a simple PaaS
BigQuery handles analysis that does not belong in Postgres
One account covers Google APIs you may already call

Cons of GCP

Fewer copy-paste tutorials than AWS
It is easy to enable APIs you never use