🆚 DigitalOcean Spaces vs. UpCloud Object Storage

Statistics for UpCloud Object Storage are still being collected and do not yet reflect its full market share.

Type

Cloud storage service

About

DigitalOcean Spaces is a cloud-based, S3-compatible object storage service for storing and serving large amounts of unstructured data such as images, videos, and static files.

It includes built-in global CDN caching, HTTPS security, support for up to 100 buckets per account, optional low-cost cold storage, and bucket-level access keys for tighter security.

UpCloud Managed Object Storage is an S3-compatible object storage service with zero-cost egress and automatic scaling based on usage.

Headquarters

New York, United States

Helsinki, Finland

Website

digitalocean.com #9,326

upcloud.com #258,943

Pricing

Free version ❌

250 GB of storage + 1 TB of outbound data transfer $5/month

Additional storage $0.02/GB/month

Additional transfer $0.01/GB

Free version ❌

250+ GB $5+/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Storages

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

United States

United Kingdom

Brazil

Indonesia

India

Germany

Netherlands

Canada

Australia

France

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in the Czech Republic in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Thailand in the Cloud Storages category.
🥈 Second most popular in Singapore in the Cloud Storages category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Storages category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Internet Services

Sports

Entertainment

Education/Reference

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#1,718

#1,966

#2,196

#2,223

#2,860

Name

Rank

#741,566

#2,794,985

#3,746,541

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🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,604,716 websites. However, data for UpCloud Object Storage is still being collected and reflects a smaller subset of sites.
Statistics were last calculated on August 4, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.