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DigitalOcean vs Cody

The developer cloud — Droplets, Kubernetes, Managed DBs, App Platform
vs. AI coding assistant by Sourcegraph — code graph + enterprise codebase context

Try DigitalOcean ($200 credit) ↗Cody by Sourcegraph ↗

Pricing tiers

DigitalOcean

Functions (Serverless)
Free 90k GB-sec/month. $0.0000185 per GB-sec after.
$0 base (usage-based)
App Platform — Free
Static sites free forever. 3 static sites per account.
Free
Droplet — Basic 512MB
Shared CPU, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB SSD, 500 GiB transfer. Cheapest starting tier.
$4/mo
Spaces Object Storage
$5/month — 250 GB storage + 1 TB outbound. S3-compatible.
$5/mo
App Platform — Basic
$5/month per app. 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 1 GB bandwidth.
$5/mo
Droplet — Basic 1GB
Shared CPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD.
$6/mo
Kubernetes (DOKS)
Starts at $12/month (1 node). Control plane free.
$12/mo
Droplet — Basic 2GB
1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD, 2 TB transfer.
$12/mo
Load Balancer
$12/month. Supports HTTP/3 + Let's Encrypt.
$12/mo
Managed Postgres — Basic
1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB SSD. Single node.
$15/mo
Droplet — CPU Optimized
2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM dedicated. Best for CPU-bound workloads.
$42/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Volume discounts, dedicated support.
Custom
Try DigitalOcean ($200 credit) ↗

Cody

Cody Free
$0. 500 autocompletes + 20 chat messages/mo. Claude Sonnet + GPT-4o-mini.
Free
Cody Pro
$9/user/mo. Unlimited autocomplete, unlimited chat, premium LLMs (Claude Opus, GPT-5).
$9/mo
Enterprise Starter
$19/user/mo. Adds advanced context (code graph), SSO, centralized billing.
$19/mo
Enterprise
$59/user/mo. On-prem deploy option, full Sourcegraph platform, audit logs, SLA.
$59/mo
Cody by Sourcegraph ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing functions on DigitalOcean vs free on Cody.

MetricDigitalOceanCody
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

DigitalOcean · 14 features

  • App Platform — Heroku-style PaaS. Deploy from Git. Auto-HTTPS, auto-scale, zero-downtime deploy…
  • Backups — Weekly automated backups (20% of Droplet cost). Manual snapshots.
  • Block Storage Volumes — SSD block storage attachable to Droplets. Snapshot support.
  • DigitalOcean GenAI Platform — Managed AI agents, model-as-a-service (Llama, Mistral), knowledge bases.
  • DNS — Free DNS hosting for your domains.
  • DOKS (Kubernetes) — Managed Kubernetes. Free control plane. Node auto-repair.
  • Droplets — Virtual machines with shared or dedicated CPU. 20+ one-click Marketplace images.
  • Functions — Serverless functions. Node, Python, Go, PHP, Ruby. Pay-per-execution.
  • Load Balancers — Layer 4/7 load balancing with HTTP/3 + Let's Encrypt.
  • Managed Databases — Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, OpenSearch, Valkey. Automated backups + …
  • Marketplace — 300+ one-click Droplet + Kubernetes apps.
  • Monitoring — Built-in metrics + alerts for Droplets, DBs, Load Balancers.
  • Spaces — S3-compatible object storage with built-in CDN.
  • VPC — Private networking. Free. Automatic default VPC per region.

Cody · 17 features

  • Audit Logs — Enterprise compliance.
  • Autocomplete — Inline code completion.
  • Batch Changes (Enterprise) — Large-scale automated refactors.
  • Chat — Conversational AI with @-context.
  • Code Graph Context — Automatic dependency-aware context.
  • Commands (Slash) — Pre-built prompts (/explain, /doc, /test).
  • Custom Prompts — Shareable team-level prompt library.
  • Inline Edit — Highlight code → edit via natural language.
  • JetBrains Plugin — IntelliJ/PyCharm/WebStorm/etc.
  • @ Mentions — Add files/symbols/URLs as context.
  • Multi-LLM Selection — Pick Claude/GPT/Gemini per request.
  • Neovim Plugin — Nvim integration.
  • On-Prem Deploy (Enterprise) — Self-host full Sourcegraph + Cody.
  • OpenCtx Extensions — Third-party context providers.
  • Prompts Library — Team-wide reusable prompts.
  • SSO (Enterprise) — SAML + OIDC.
  • VS Code Extension — Primary IDE.

Developer interfaces

KindDigitalOceanCody
CLIdoctl CLIsrc CLI (context tool)
SDKgodo (Go), pydo (official py), python-digitalocean—
RESTDigitalOcean REST APICody API (Enterprise)
MCPDigitalOcean MCP—
OTHER—Cody for JetBrains, Cody for Neovim, Cody for VS Code, Sourcegraph Cloud Web
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