Cloudways vs Prisma
Managed cloud hosting across DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud
vs. Next-gen ORM + serverless data platform (Postgres + Accelerate + Pulse)
Pricing tiers
Cloudways
Autonomous — Free Trial
3-day free trial. 1 server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
Free
Flexible — DO Micro
DigitalOcean-backed. 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage, 2 TB bandwidth. Starting tier.
$11/mo
Flexible — DO Medium
4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB, 5 TB bandwidth.
$88/mo
Autonomous — Growth
WordPress-optimized autoscaling. 1 baseline server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
$100/mo
Autonomous — Scale
2 baseline servers, 50 GB disk, 250 GB bandwidth.
$200/mo
Flexible — DO 8XL
24 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2.56 TB storage, 11 TB bandwidth.
$342/mo
Autonomous — Plus
3 baseline servers, 100 GB disk, 1 TB bandwidth.
$400/mo
Enterprise
Custom autoscale, volume pricing.
Custom
Prisma
Prisma ORM (OSS)
$0. Apache-2.0. Unlimited self-hosted use with your own DB.
$0 base (usage-based)
Prisma Postgres — Free
$0. 100K queries/mo. 1GB storage. 3 DBs. Good for hobby/prototyping.
Free
Starter
$29/mo. 1M queries/mo. 10GB storage. Accelerate + Pulse included.
$29/mo
Pro
$99/mo. 5M queries/mo. 50GB storage. Priority + SLA.
$99/mo
Enterprise
Custom. HIPAA, SSO, dedicated, self-hosted Accelerate.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing auto-free-trial on Cloudways vs starter on Prisma.
| Metric | Cloudways | Prisma |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Cloudways · 17 features
- Autonomous (WordPress) — Fully managed WordPress with autoscaling.
- Backups — Automated daily + on-demand. Retention configurable.
- Bot Protection — Cloudflare Enterprise bot filtering add-on.
- Bot Scaler — Autonomous: auto-scale based on traffic patterns.
- Breeze (WP cache plugin) — In-house WordPress caching plugin.
- CloudwaysCDN — Built-in CDN add-on (StackPath-backed).
- Flexible Plans — BYO-sized servers on any of 5 providers. Full control over stack.
- Free Let's Encrypt SSL — 1-click cert install + auto-renewal.
- Free Migration — 1 free app migration per plan. Cloudways team moves your site.
- Horizontal Scaling — Auto-scale app servers (Autonomous plans).
- Malware Protection — Add-on ($4/app/month). Scan + clean.
- Object Cache Pro — Included on certain plans. Redis-backed object cache for WP.
- SafeUpdates — Automated WordPress plugin/theme updates with rollback.
- Staging Environments — 1-click staging clones with push-to-live.
- Team Collaboration — Invite team members with granular role permissions.
- Thunderstack (Optimized) — Apache + Nginx + Varnish + Redis + Memcached preconfigured for speed.
- Vertical Scaling — Resize server specs without migration.
Prisma · 13 features
- Client Extensions — Extend the client with middleware.
- Edge Runtime — Runs on Vercel/CF edge via Accelerate.
- End-to-end Type Safety — Types flow from schema to client.
- Prisma Accelerate — Global connection pool + query cache.
- Prisma Migrate — Schema migrations.
- Prisma Optimize — AI-driven query recommendations.
- Prisma ORM — OSS ORM for Node/TS.
- Prisma Postgres — Serverless Postgres built on Accelerate.
- Prisma Pulse — Database CDC streaming.
- Prisma Studio — GUI to browse + edit DB.
- Raw SQL + typedSql — Escape hatch for raw queries with types.
- Relation Querying — Nested include / select.
- Zero Cold Start Pool — Accelerate keeps a warm pool for serverless.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Cloudways | Prisma |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | prisma CLI |
| SDK | — | @prisma/client |
| REST | Cloudways API | — |
| OTHER | Cloudways Platform (web UI), Server SSH Access, SFTP | Prisma Accelerate, Prisma Data Platform, Prisma Optimize, Prisma Postgres, Prisma Pulse (CDC) |
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