Pricing breakdown
Cloudways pricing
Promotional price, renewal price, first invoice and three-year true cost for every plan and term.
Cloudways is pay-as-you-go on top of DigitalOcean, AWS or Google Cloud. There are no terms and no introductory rate: the monthly price is the price.
Cloud hosting
DigitalOcean Standard 1 GB
| Plan | Term bought | Promo / mo | Renewal / mo | First invoice | 3-year true cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudways DigitalOcean Standard 1 GB Checked Oct 9, 2026Unverified | Monthly | $11.00 | $11.00 from month 2 | $11.00 | $396.00 $11.00/mo effective |
What DigitalOcean Standard 1 GB includes
| Feature | DigitalOcean Standard 1 GB |
|---|---|
| Websites | Unlimited |
| Storage | 25 GB |
| Bandwidth / visits | 1 TB/month |
| Free domain | Not included |
| Email hosting | Not included |
| Backups | Included |
| CDN | Not included |
| Staging | Included |
| SSL | Included |
Cloud hosting
DigitalOcean Standard 2 GB
| Plan | Term bought | Promo / mo | Renewal / mo | First invoice | 3-year true cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudways DigitalOcean Standard 2 GB Checked Oct 9, 2026Unverified | Monthly | $24.00 | $24.00 from month 2 | $24.00 | $864.00 $24.00/mo effective |
What DigitalOcean Standard 2 GB includes
| Feature | DigitalOcean Standard 2 GB |
|---|---|
| Websites | Unlimited |
| Storage | 50 GB |
| Bandwidth / visits | 2 TB/month |
| Free domain | Not included |
| Email hosting | Not included |
| Backups | Included |
| CDN | Not included |
| Staging | Included |
| SSL | Included |
Cloud hosting
DigitalOcean Standard 4 GB
| Plan | Term bought | Promo / mo | Renewal / mo | First invoice | 3-year true cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudways DigitalOcean Standard 4 GB Checked Oct 9, 2026Unverified | Monthly | $50.00 | $50.00 from month 2 | $50.00 | $1,800.00 $50.00/mo effective |
What DigitalOcean Standard 4 GB includes
| Feature | DigitalOcean Standard 4 GB |
|---|---|
| Websites | Unlimited |
| Storage | 80 GB |
| Bandwidth / visits | 4 TB/month |
| Free domain | Not included |
| Email hosting | Not included |
| Backups | Included |
| CDN | Not included |
| Staging | Included |
| SSL | Included |
Add-ons Cloudways charges for
Per year. A plan that includes one of these (see “What the plan includes”) doesn’t pay it for the included months.
| Add-on | First year | Renewal / year | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| CDN Cloudflare Enterprise · $4.99/month per domain. | $59.88 | $59.88 | Checked Oct 9, 2026Unverified |
| Email hosting Rackspace Email · $1/month per mailbox. | $12.00 | $12.00 | Checked Oct 9, 2026Unverified |
Prices in USD for US customers. Sources: Cloudways’s pricing pages on the dates shown. How we compute the three-year cost.