Cloudways vs Saleor

Managed cloud hosting across DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud
vs. Open-source, GraphQL-first commerce for composable brands

Cloudways website ↗Saleor website ↗

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

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Saleor

OSS (self-host)

$0. BSD-3-Clause. Self-host Saleor Core + Dashboard.

$0 base (usage-based)

Cloud — Development

$0. Dev tier for sandbox projects. Shared infra. Community.

$0 base (usage-based)

Cloud — Staging

$179/mo. Staging tier with dedicated env.

$179/mo

Cloud — Production

$1,999/mo. Production tier with SLA + support.

$1999/mo

Enterprise

Custom. Multi-region, SAML, dedicated clusters, PCI.

Custom

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Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing auto-free-trial on Cloudways vs oss on Saleor.

Metric	Cloudways	Saleor
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.

Saleor · 17 features

Channels — Per-channel pricing/shipping/currency.
Checkout — Multi-step checkout mutation set.
Customers + B2B — Customer records + B2B permissions.
Dashboard — Next.js admin dashboard.
Gift Cards — First-class gift-card flow.
Orders — Full lifecycle.
Permissions + Roles — Granular RBAC.
Pricing + Promotions — Rule-based promos, catalog pricing.
Products + Attributes — Full PIM features.
Saleor Apps — External extensions.
Shipping Zones + Methods — Multi-zone shipping rules.
Tax Providers — Pluggable tax (Avalara, etc.).
Translations — Multi-language product content.
Variants + Configurable — Deep variant system.
Vouchers — Discount codes + gift cards.
Warehouses + Stock — Multi-warehouse inventory.
Webhooks — Async subscription to events.

Developer interfaces

Kind	Cloudways	Saleor
CLI	—	saleor CLI
SDK	—	@saleor/app-sdk, @saleor/sdk
REST	Cloudways API	—
GRAPHQL	—	Saleor GraphQL API
OTHER	Cloudways Platform (web UI), Server SSH Access, SFTP	Saleor App Store, Saleor Dashboard, Saleor Webhooks

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