Best PaaS / App Hosting · head-to-head
Sevalla vs DigitalOcean App Platform
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 — Sevalla starts at $5/mo, DigitalOcean App Platform at $0/mo. Free tier: Sevalla No, DigitalOcean App Platform Yes. HIPAA: Sevalla —, DigitalOcean App Platform —.
As of 2026-11-01 · figures link to their source below
Side by side
Sevalla
$5/mo entryDigitalOcean App Platform
$0/mo entrySources — Sevalla: sevalla.com (verified 2026-11-01) · DigitalOcean App Platform: digitalocean.com (verified 2026-11-01)
Key features
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
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