Everything you love about developer-friendly cloud platforms — with a few meaningful improvements.
LightYear's cloud compute starts at $2.50/mo — below the entry price of comparable Droplet plans — making it easier to run multiple small workloads without inflating your bill.
With 32 data center regions across 6 continents, LightYear gives you more deployment options to reduce latency for global user bases — more than twice as many regions.
Enterprise-grade DDoS mitigation is included on every LightYear server at no extra cost. No need to upgrade your support plan or pay for an add-on service.
LightYear includes significantly more outbound bandwidth per plan than comparable alternatives — ideal for high-traffic applications, media delivery, and API-heavy workloads.
Run GPU-accelerated workloads on NVIDIA A16, A40, A100, and L40S instances. Ideal for model training, inference, and rendering — without the enterprise procurement process.
LightYear provides 24/7 ticket and chat support to all customers — not just those on premium support tiers. You get responsive help regardless of your plan size.
A side-by-side look at what each platform offers.
★ indicates LightYear advantage. Pricing and features correct as of April 2025. Subject to change.
Most teams complete the migration from their existing provider to LightYear in under a day.
Create your LightYear account and add credit to your wallet. No credit card required for the free trial.
Take a snapshot of your existing Droplets. Export the image or use our ISO upload feature to bring your custom images across.
Deploy matching instances on LightYear in the same or closer regions. Our deploy wizard takes under 60 seconds.
Point your DNS records to your new LightYear IPs. Enjoy included DDoS protection and private networking from day one.
Yes. LightYear instances use the same SSH-based access, standard Linux distributions, and cloud-init support that Droplet workflows rely on. Your Ansible playbooks, Terraform configs, and deployment scripts work as-is.
Yes. LightYear Object Storage is fully S3-compatible. Any tool that works with Spaces (s3cmd, rclone, AWS CLI, Cyberduck) works with LightYear Object Storage using the same configuration.
Both platforms bill hourly with a monthly cap. LightYear uses a prepaid wallet — you top up and pay as you go, with no surprise invoices at month end.
LightYear offers managed MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis clusters with automated backups, failover, and one-click scaling — comparable to the managed database offerings on other platforms.
Yes. New accounts receive free trial credit to test our platform. No credit card is required to get started.
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