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Best PaaS / App Hosting · head-to-head

DigitalOcean App Platform vs Sevalla

A sourced, side-by-side comparison for paas / app hosting. DigitalOcean App Platform has the lower entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.

DigitalOcean App Platform has the lower entry price — DigitalOcean App Platform starts at $0/mo, Sevalla at $5/mo. Free tier: DigitalOcean App Platform Yes, Sevalla No. HIPAA: DigitalOcean App Platform —, Sevalla —.

As of 2026-09-03 · figures link to their source below

Side by side

DigitalOcean App Platform

$0/mo entry
Entry price$0/mo (Static Sites (Free))
Free tierYes
HIPAA (BAA)—
SOC 2Yes
GDPRYes
Best forStatic site and frontend deployments on a free tier

Sevalla

$5/mo entry
Entry price$5/mo (Hobby H1)
Free tierNo
HIPAA (BAA)—
SOC 2Yes
GDPRYes
Best forTeams migrating from Kinsta Application Hosting (direct successor)

Sources — DigitalOcean App Platform: digitalocean.com (verified 2026-09-03) · Sevalla: sevalla.com (verified 2026-09-03)

Key features

DigitalOcean App Platform: SOC 2 + SOC 3 certified; HIPAA workload eligibility (platform-level, BAA process not confirmed for App Platform specifically); GDPR DPA available at /legal/data-processing-agreement with SCCs; Request-based autoscaling (GA as of May 2026); Free static site hosting on global CDN with automatic HTTPS and DDoS mitigation

Sevalla: SOC 2 Type II + ISO 27001 + GDPR + CCPA certified; 25 global data centers + 260+ edge PoP servers for static delivery; Live preview environments per pull request; Vertical and horizontal auto-scaling without downtime; Private service-to-service connections by default

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