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DigitalOcean and Utho: which comparison to read

Two hosts people compare with an Indian cloud, and the one fact that decides each comparison. No percentage is claimed against either of them.

DataDack Cloud Architecture Team

DataDack Cloud Architecture Team

System software architects and network engineers building sovereign cloud infrastructure in India.

November 6, 20262 min read
DigitalOcean and Utho: which comparison to read

DigitalOcean and Utho

People looking for an Indian cloud often arrive with one of these two names. Each comparison on this site answers a different question. Neither page prints a percentage, because the only matched prices this site publishes are against AWS Mumbai, and that range is 44–53% on those VM plans only.

The smallest DataDack virtual machine is ₹1,150/mo (₹2.53/hr). Prices exclude GST. A GST invoice is issued. The live region is Noida (ap-south-3). Tenant bandwidth is 1 Gbps shared. Traffic inside a VPC is ₹0/GB.

DigitalOcean

DataDack vs DigitalOcean. DigitalOcean has a Bangalore region and bills in US dollars. It also sells managed databases, Spaces, Kubernetes and App Platform. Move only when the users are in northern India, the invoice needs to be in rupees, and the workload fits a published plan, a VPC or TejasDeploy. Stay when those managed products, or a region outside India, are the reason you are there. Managed databases and object storage are not on the DataDack rate card yet.

Utho

DataDack vs Utho. Both can run in Noida, and both bill in INR. DataDack's published virtual-machine plans cost less. Utho also runs Mumbai, Bangalore, Frankfurt and Los Angeles, and sells managed databases, Kubernetes, object storage and GPUs. Choose DataDack when the price of a published plan in Noida is the question. Choose Utho for the wider map or those managed services.

What this does not decide

A page here will not tell you that another company's list price is a specific percent higher. If the bill is mostly a managed database, a GPU, or a region this platform does not have, the honest answer is to stay. The full list of comparisons is alternatives. A new account starts with ₹1,000 in free credit on signup, which is separate from the ₹0 beta.

From this article

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Nothing in the article is a different price or a different credit. ₹1,000 in free credit on signup is the signup offer, applied in the console.

  1. 01One credit, the same as the homepage
  2. 02Rates mentioned here are catalogue rates
  3. 03Noida is the region you land in
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