DigitalOcean Droplets vs Leaseweb Public Cloud

DigitalOcean Droplets8.8Visit Leaseweb Public Cloud7.7Visit

Higher score DigitalOcean Droplets #1 in VPS Hosting in Europe 8.8/10 From $4/mo ✓ 0 of 1 features Visit DigitalOcean

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Leaseweb Public Cloud #4 in VPS Hosting in Europe 7.7/10 30-day trial ✓ 0 of 1 features Visit Leaseweb

• DigitalOcean Droplets fits best

  Teams wanting established, scalable cloud VPS

• Leaseweb Public Cloud fits best

  Businesses needing flexible cloud compute

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Side by side

Feature	DigitalOcean Droplets 8.8/10 Visit ↗	Leaseweb Public Cloud 7.7/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.8	7.7
Ranking	#1 in VPS Hosting in Europe	#4 in VPS Hosting in Europe
Best for	Teams wanting established, scalable cloud VPS	Businesses needing flexible cloud compute
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
Starting price	$4/mo	Not published
Free plan	—	—
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud
Platforms	Web, Linux	Web
Support	Email, Live chat, Tickets · 24/7	Live chat, Email
Integrations	2 integrations	2 integrations
Built for	Solo, Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features DigitalOcean Droplets 0/1 · Leaseweb Public Cloud 0/1
Root access	Not published	Not published
Specs
vCPU cores	Not published	Not published
RAM	Not published	Not published
NVMe storage	Not published	Not published
Bandwidth	Not published	Not published
European locations	Not published	Not published
Managed service	Not published	Not published
Our review
Pros	Scales Droplets horizontally with autoscale pools Control panel, CLI, API, and Terraform management Multiple compute families plus 500 GiB transfer on Basic	Four instance families, including GPU-optimized compute Autoscaling, load balancing, private networking and security groups REST API, CLI, Terraform provider and AWS EC2-compatible APIs
Cons	Backups and snapshots cost extra as add-ons Linux-based workloads only Load balancing, storage, and databases are separate products	Instances are multi-tenant rather than dedicated by default No managed database service is included Trial access excludes instances in the Netherlands and Japan
Our verdict	DigitalOcean Droplets are Linux-based virtual machines for websites, applications, databases, development environments, and other cloud workloads. They suit solo developers through enterprise teams that want several compute profiles and… Read the review →	Leaseweb Public Cloud provides virtual machines for businesses running web applications, application hosting, databases, development and testing, and machine-learning workloads. It supports general-purpose, compute-optimized,… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• DigitalOcean Droplets — where it wins

  • Scales Droplets horizontally with autoscale pools
  • Control panel, CLI, API, and Terraform management
  • Multiple compute families plus 500 GiB transfer on Basic

  Where it doesn't

  • Backups and snapshots cost extra as add-ons
  • Linux-based workloads only
  • Load balancing, storage, and databases are separate products

• Leaseweb Public Cloud — where it wins

  • Four instance families, including GPU-optimized compute
  • Autoscaling, load balancing, private networking and security groups
  • REST API, CLI, Terraform provider and AWS EC2-compatible APIs

  Where it doesn't

  • Instances are multi-tenant rather than dedicated by default
  • No managed database service is included
  • Trial access excludes instances in the Netherlands and Japan

• DigitalOcean Droplets8.8/10 · From $4/mo

  A scalable Linux VPS with broad management options and a $4 monthly entry point.

  Visit DigitalOceanFull verdict →
• Leaseweb Public Cloud7.7/10 · 30-day trial

  Flexible European cloud compute with autoscaling, APIs and hourly or monthly billing.

  Visit LeasewebFull verdict →