DigitalOcean vs Elastic
What each one’s own pages state, side by side. Every value is a quote AirStack found on that product’s pages; “Not observed” means AirStack has not found it on that product’s pages.
| DigitalOcean | Elastic | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | One integrated platform, silicon to agent, with economics that improve as you scale. digitalocean.com | Elastic is a technology company. elastic.co |
| Starting at | Not observed | Not observed |
| Platforms | Not observed | Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, macOS, AWS, Alibaba, Azure, GCP, Google Cloud elastic.co |
| Deployment | Not observed | Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Serverless, self-managed, on-premises, Self-managed Elasticsearch, Hosted, Serverless elastic.co |
| Integrations | Claude Code, Codex CLI, CrewAI, Hermes, LangGraph, MCP, OpenCode, GitHub, Let’s Encrypt, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, QM, by YC Labs, Codex Universal, Docker, WHM® for AlmaLinux 9, cPanel, Omarchy, Coolify, Plesk (AlmaLinux), WordPress, RabbitMQ, n8n, OpenLiteSpeed WordPress, Easypanel, Simple Observability, WordPress-WooCommerce, 3CX, Supabase, SnapShooter, GitLab Enterprise Edition, Anaconda, Jitsi Server, Appwrite, Minecraft: Java Edition Server, SimpleBackups, NodeJS, Grafana, Apache Kafka, Cloudron, Odoo ERP, 360 Monitoring, Logtail, Better Uptime, Netmaker, PocketBase, MEAN, Flask digitalocean.com | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, BigQuery, GKE, applications, cloud-native infrastructure, content repositories, security activity and context elastic.co |
| Compliance | GDPR, SOC 2 digitalocean.com | HIPAA, SOC 2 elastic.co |
| Free plan | Yes digitalocean.com | Not observed |
| Plans | App Platform, Droplets, Kubernetes, Functions, Spaces digitalocean.com | Limited, Base, Enhanced, Premium, Enterprise, Platinum elastic.co |
| Open source | Not observed | Yes elastic.co |
| Models supported | Llama, Qwen digitalocean.com | Not observed |
| Pricing basis | Scalable, pay-as-you-go hosting for digital businesses digitalocean.com | Resource based pricing elastic.co |
Where they differ
- DigitalOcean’s pages state a free plan; AirStack has not found that on Elastic’s pages.
- Elastic’s pages state that it is open source; AirStack has not found that on DigitalOcean’s pages.
- DigitalOcean claims GDPR on its own pages; Elastic’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
- Elastic claims HIPAA on its own pages; DigitalOcean’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
Prices are list prices as written on each pricing page; check them before you buy. Nothing here is a ranking or a recommendation.