Cloudflare Pages vs DigitalOcean

Both are in our Deployment & hosting tier list: Cloudflare Pages is S-tier and DigitalOcean is B-tier.

No editor verdict yet. This page shows the data side by side; the tiers come from our Deployment & hosting tier list.

Cloudflare Pages vs DigitalOcean, side by side
Field	Cloudflare Pages	DigitalOcean
Tier	S	B
Why this tier	It has a generous free tier and is fast everywhere on Cloudflare's edge network. That is why it shares S-tier with Vercel.	It is cheap and predictable when you want your own server. You manage more yourself, which keeps it at B-tier for builders.
Best for	A generous free tier Static and full-stack sites served from the edge	Your own server at a predictable price Managed databases and App Platform
Skip if	You need a long-running backend You want the most Next.js-native host (see Vercel)	You want zero-config deploys and previews (see Vercel) You don't want to manage servers
Free tier	Yes: Free plan: 1 build at a time, 500 builds a month, 100 custom domains per project, 20,000 files per site (source: developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, checked 17 Oct 2026)	Yes: App Platform Free Tier: 3 apps with static sites, 1 GiB data transfer per app (static sites only) (source: www.digitalocean.com/pricing/app-platform, checked 17 Oct 2026)
Last checked	16 Oct 2026	16 Oct 2026
Tier history	S since 14 Oct 2026: Initial ranking at launch	B since 14 Oct 2026: Initial ranking at launch

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