Azure App Service vs. DigitalOcean App Platform
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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![]() Azure App Service | Score8.8 out of 10 | N/A | The Microsoft Azure App Service is a PaaS that enables users to build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs, a fully managed service with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling. Includes Azure Web Apps, Azure Mobile Apps, Azure API Apps, allowing developers to use popular frameworks including .NET, .NET Core, Java, Node.js, Python, PHP, and Ruby. | $9.49 per month |
DigitalOcean App Platform | Score8 out of 10 | N/A | The DigitalOcean App Platform enables developers to build, deploy, and scale apps on what they describe as a simple, fully managed PaaS. Users of the former Nanobox, acquired by DigitalOcean in 2019, have been migrated to the App Platform upon Nanobox's end of life in March 2021. | $5 per month |
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| Additional Details | Free and Shared (preview) plans are ideal for testing applications in a managed Azure environment. Basic, Standard and Premium plans are for production workloads and run on dedicated Virtual Machine instances. Each instance can support multiple applications and domains. | — | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 7.9 | 7.0 |
| Support Rating | 10.0 | - |
