Azure Virtual Machines vs. DigitalOcean Droplets

Azure Virtual Machines

95 Reviews and Ratings

DigitalOcean Droplets

28 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Azure Virtual Machines	Score8.9 out of 10	N/A	Virtual Machines (VMs) are available on Microsoft Azure, providing what is built as a low-cost, per-second compute service, available via Windows or Linux.	$0 Per Hour
DigitalOcean Droplets	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	DigitalOcean's Droplets is designed to help the user spin up a virtual machine in just 55 seconds. Standard, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, or Memory-Optimized configurations provide flexibility to build, test, and grow an app from startup to scale.	$4 per month

Pricing

Azure Virtual Machines

DigitalOcean Droplets

3 Year Reserved - Burstable VMs - B1S: $0.0038
Per Hour
Spot - General Purpose - Av2: $0.005
Per Hour
1 Year Reserved - Burstable VMs - B1S: $0.0059
Per Hour
Pay as You Go - Burstable VMs - B1S: $0.0075
Per Hour
Spot - Compute Optimized - Fsv2: $0.0104
Per Hour
Spot - General Purpose - Dv3: $0.0125
Per Hour
Spot - Memory Optimized - Ev3: $0.016
Per Hour
3 Year Reserved - Compute Optimized - Fsv2: $0.0307
Per Hour
3 Year Reserved - General Purpose - Dv3: $0.0369
Per Hour
3 Year Reserved - Memory Optimized - Ev3: $0.0481
Per Hour
1 Year Reserved - Compute Optimized - Fsv2: $0.05
Per Hour
1 Year Reserved - General Purpose - Dv3: $0.0548
Per Hour
1 Year Reserved - Memory Optimized - Ev3: $0.0753
Per Hour
Pay as You Go - Compute Optimized - Fsv2: $0.0846
Per Hour
Pay as You Go - General Purpose - Dv3: $0.096
Per Hour
Pay as You Go - Memory Optimized - Ev3: $0.126
Per Hour

Basic: $4
per month
CPU-Optimized: $42
per month
General Purpose: $63
per month
Memory-Optimized: $84
per month
Storage-Optimized: $131
per month

Pricing Offerings
Azure Virtual Machines	DigitalOcean Droplets
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Pricing for DigitalOcean Droplets varies depending on the size of the virtual environment and the associated data needs.

Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Azure Virtual Machines	DigitalOcean Droplets
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Verified User Chose Azure Virtual Machines Azure VM is more complicated, but provides the same scale of services. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Azure Virtual Machines Azure Virtual Machines was faster, cheaper, and took up less storage than Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling and is why we continue to use it to this day. We are very satisfied with all that Azure Virtual Machines can do and would recommend it to anyone looking for a virtual machine in … Incentivized Helpful?	DigitalOcean No answer on this topic
	Would buy again
	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
	Delivers good value for the price
	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
	Happy with the feature set
	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
	Implementation went as expected
No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic

Features

Azure Virtual Machines

DigitalOcean Droplets

Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Azure Virtual Machines and DigitalOcean Droplets
Feature	Azure Virtual Machines 8.8 23 Ratings	DigitalOcean Droplets - Ratings
Virtual machine automated provisioning	9.323 Ratings	00 Ratings
Management console	8.021 Ratings	00 Ratings
Live virtual machine backup	9.319 Ratings	00 Ratings
Live virtual machine migration	8.716 Ratings	00 Ratings
Hypervisor-level security	8.616 Ratings	00 Ratings

User Ratings
	Azure Virtual Machines	DigitalOcean Droplets
Likelihood to Recommend	7.1 (23 ratings)	9.9 (7 ratings)
Support Rating	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)