Cloudways Alternative: CloudBlast vs Cloudways Prices (October 2026)

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Monthly price, comparable plans

CloudBlast VMA21 against Cloudways DigitalOcean Standard Medium (4 GB), the closest plans by vCPU and RAM. Euro prices excluding VAT, checked on October 9, 2026.

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€4.80

€41.12

CloudBlast vs Cloudways: specs and prices

The Cloudways plan closest to 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM against the smallest CloudBlast plan with at least the same vCPU and RAM. List prices excluding VAT, checked on October 9, 2026.

Feature	CloudBlast	Cloudways
Plan	VMA21	DigitalOcean Standard Medium (4 GB)
vCPU	2	2
RAM	4 GB	4 GB
Storage	30 GB NVMe	80 GB SSD
Price per month	€4.80 (€0.0077/h)	$46.00 (€41.12)
Price per vCPU	€2.40	€20.56
Price per GB of RAM	€1.20	€10.28
Monthly traffic	5 TB (1 TB in Hong Kong)	4 TB
Port speed	10 Gbps	2 Gbps
CPU	AMD EPYC	Intel
Hourly billing	Yes	Yes
Minimum term	None	None
DDoS protection	Included	Paid add-on
IPv4 address included	Yes	Not published
IPv6	Yes, a /64 per server	Not published
Datacenter locations	4	9

Cheapest plans

Each provider's lowest-priced regular plan, checked on October 9, 2026.

Provider	Plan	Specs	Price per month
CloudBlast	VMA11	1 vCPU, 3 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe	€3.60
Cloudways	DigitalOcean Standard Micro (1 GB)	1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD	$11.00 (€9.83)

Where CloudBlast is the better choice

88% cheaper for a comparable server: €4.80 against $46.00 (€41.12) a month.
DDoS protection included on every plan, with up to 2.5 Tbps of scrubbing capacity.
NVMe storage on every plan.
A 10 Gbps port on every plan.
More traffic included: 5 TB a month against 4 TB.

Where Cloudways is the better choice

More datacenter locations: 9 against CloudBlast's 4.
Fully managed hosting with support included.

CloudBlast vs Cloudways: common questions

Is CloudBlast cheaper than Cloudways?

Yes. For a comparable server, CloudBlast's VMA21 costs €4.80 a month and Cloudways's DigitalOcean Standard Medium (4 GB) costs $46.00 (€41.12), so CloudBlast is 88% cheaper (list prices checked on October 9, 2026).

What is the CloudBlast equivalent of Cloudways's DigitalOcean Standard Medium (4 GB)?

CloudBlast's VMA21: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 30 GB NVMe, €4.80 a month or €0.0077 an hour, with 5 TB of traffic a month outside Hong Kong.

Does Cloudways bill by the hour?

Yes, Cloudways bills by the hour. So does CloudBlast, on every plan, capped at the monthly price.

Does Cloudways include DDoS protection?

Only as a paid add-on. CloudBlast includes always-on mitigation with up to 2.5 Tbps of scrubbing capacity on every plan.

How do I move from Cloudways to CloudBlast?

Deploy a CloudBlast server in the location closest to your users, copy your data across with rsync or a backup restore, test it, then point your DNS at the new IP. With hourly billing, running both servers side by side for a few days costs very little.

How we compared

Prices are the list prices on Cloudways's own pricing page on October 9, 2026, for its standard Linux VPS, excluding VAT. We compare the plan closest to 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM, and the cheapest plan, against the smallest CloudBlast plan with at least the same vCPU and RAM. Prices in other currencies are converted to euro at the European Central Bank reference rate of October 8, 2026. CloudBlast prices are from cloudblast.io/pricing. Where a provider advertises an introductory price that needs a long prepayment, we compare its regular price and show the introductory one next to it.

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