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At a Glance
Market Segments
Small-Business (85.8% of reviews)
Small-Business (93.1% of reviews)
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $4.00
Free Trial
DigitalOcean
Star Rating
(735)4.6 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (85.8% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Starting at $4.00
Free Trial is available
Browse all 11 pricing plansKinsta
Star Rating
(1,331)4.8 out of 5
Market Segments
Small-Business (93.1% of reviews)
Pros & Cons
Entry-Level Pricing
Free Trial
Browse all 3 pricing plansDigitalOcean vs Kinsta
When assessing the two solutions, reviewers found Kinsta easier to use, set up, and administer. Reviewers also preferred doing business with Kinsta overall.
- Reviewers felt that Kinsta meets the needs of their business better than DigitalOcean.
- When comparing quality of ongoing product support, reviewers felt that Kinsta is the preferred option.
- For feature updates and roadmaps, our reviewers preferred the direction of Kinsta over DigitalOcean.
Pricing
Entry-Level Pricing
DigitalOcean
Droplets
Starting at $4.00
Simple, affordable, fast virtual machines
- Deploys in seconds
- Scales up on demand
- Run any workload from mission critical apps to low traffic sites
Kinsta
Single-site plans
Free Trial
Best if you have 1 site
- $300+ worth of premium features
- CDN and edge caching
- Enterprise-level security with Cloudflare
Free Trial
DigitalOcean
Free Trial is available
Kinsta
No trial information availableRatings
Meets Requirements
9.1
639
9.5
977
Ease of Use
9.3
628
9.4
1,187
Ease of Setup
9.3
487
9.4
892
Ease of Admin
9.2
406
9.4
739
Quality of Support
8.7
522
9.7
978
Has the product been a good partner in doing business?
9.2
379
9.5
734
Product Direction (% positive)
9.0
628
9.2
948
Features by Category
Core Conversational Capabilities - AI Chatbots
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Interaction
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Task & Flow Management - AI Chatbots
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Learning
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Deployment & Embedding - AI Chatbots
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Content Generation
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Admin & Configuration - AI Chatbots
Not enough data
Not enough data
System
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - AI Chatbots
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Monitoring & Improvement - AI Chatbots
Not enough data
Not enough data
Reliability & Safety - AI Chatbots
Not enough data
Not enough data
Infrastructure Provision
9.1
144
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
7.4
77
Not enough data
8.3
120
Not enough data
9.3
151
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.9
131
Not enough data
Management
8.8
153
Not enough data
8.7
153
Not enough data
8.7
146
Not enough data
Functionality
8.4
81
Not enough data
Performance
Not enough data
8.9
633
Not enough data
9.4
639
Not enough data
9.6
653
Not enough data
9.4
637
Not enough data
9.3
617
Security
Not enough data
9.5
646
Not enough data
9.3
626
Not enough data
9.1
603
Not enough data
9.0
586
Free Resources
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
9.6
636
Integration - Machine Learning
Not enough data
Not enough data
Learning - Machine Learning
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Not enough data
Agentic AI - Virtual Private Servers (VPS)
7.5
21
Not enough data
7.3
20
Not enough data
7.5
20
Not enough data
Hosting Management
8.4
346
Not enough data
8.9
353
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.6
285
Not enough data
8.2
240
Not enough data
8.7
267
Not enough data
7.9
216
Not enough data
Feature Not Available
Not enough data
8.8
296
Not enough data
8.6
294
Not enough data
Development
8.9
73
8.7
25
Feature Not Available
7.9
26
8.3
73
7.9
25
8.8
68
9.2
25
7.9
68
9.1
27
Database
8.7
69
8.7
26
7.9
67
8.3
27
7.9
66
8.4
27
8.6
66
9.5
27
8.9
68
9.5
28
Infrastructure
8.8
69
9.2
26
9.0
70
8.6
23
8.3
68
9.6
27
Configuration
8.8
51
Not enough data
8.7
51
Not enough data
8.6
51
Not enough data
7.4
50
Not enough data
8.7
50
Not enough data
Database Administration
8.7
51
Not enough data
8.4
51
Not enough data
7.8
50
Not enough data
Availability
9.2
51
Not enough data
8.8
50
Not enough data
8.4
51
Not enough data
8.4
50
Not enough data
Security
7.7
47
Not enough data
8.0
48
Not enough data
7.7
46
Not enough data
Data Management
8.6
47
Not enough data
7.5
47
Not enough data
Management
9.3
38
Not enough data
9.1
37
Not enough data
8.5
36
Not enough data
Organization
8.9
37
Not enough data
9.0
37
Not enough data
8.9
36
Not enough data
Development
8.8
36
Not enough data
8.8
34
Not enough data
8.9
36
Not enough data
9.2
35
Not enough data
Categories
Categories
Shared Categories
DigitalOcean and Kinsta are categorized as Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Unique Categories
DigitalOcean is categorized as Container Orchestration, Block Storage, Container Management, Database as a Service (DBaaS), VPS Hosting Platforms, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Machine Learning, and AI Chatbots
Kinsta is categorized as Managed Hosting and WordPress Hosting
Reviews
Reviewers' Company Size
DigitalOcean
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Kinsta
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Small-Business
(50 or fewer emp.)
Mid-Market
(51-1000 emp.)
Enterprise
(> 1000 emp.)
Reviewers' Industry
Computer Software
24.5%
Information Technology and Services
19.8%
Internet
6.9%
Marketing and Advertising
5.8%
Computer & Network Security
3.0%
Other
40.0%
Marketing and Advertising
11.9%
Computer Software
6.6%
Information Technology and Services
5.9%
Retail
5.1%
Health, Wellness and Fitness
3.5%
Other
66.9%
Discussions
What are droplets in DigitalOcean?
7 Comments
JL
Companies like to rename existing concepts to make them seem more exclusive. A Droplet is what Digital Ocean has decided to name its virtual machines,...Read more
What's your primary use case for DigitalOcean?
2 Comments
TR
I use it for hosting my staging websites for my web dev business as well as hosting my own website. I'm not a big fan of web hosting companies, especially as...Read more
Are digital ocean droplets VPS?
2 Comments
JL
Yes, Droplets are what Digital Ocean calls their VPS's.Read more
Are there any feature rollouts upcoming?
1 Comment
FP
Thank you, Tim, for your suggestions! 🙌
We take note and consider every comment or observation regarding new or already existing features, and we're...Read more
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