Alternatives to Cloudways in India
We list 8 alternatives to Cloudways. 2 have a free plan. The lowest price we state is ₹79 a month for HostGator India.
Why people look for an alternative to Cloudways
- The price is set in dollars. ₹8,712 a month is our conversion of the dollar price, not an invoice amount; the card bill depends on the exchange rate that day.
Cloudways and 8 alternatives at a glance
| Tool | From, a month | Free plan or tier | Our score | Bills in ₹ | Built in India |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudways (the one you are replacing) | ≈ ₹8,712 a month | Yes | 40 / 100 | Not checked | – |
| Hostinger | ≈ ₹219 a month | No | 40 / 100 | Yes | – |
| Bluehost India | ₹199 a month | No | 30 / 100 | Not checked | – |
| GoDaddy Hosting | ₹89 a month | No | 30 / 100 | Not checked | – |
| HostGator India | ₹79 a month | No | 30 / 100 | Not checked | – |
| ResellerClub | ₹160 a month | No | 30 / 100 | Not checked | – |
| Railway | Free plan; paid price not stated | Yes | 20 / 100 | No, dollars | – |
| Render | Free plan; paid price not stated | Yes | 20 / 100 | No, dollars | – |
| DigitalOcean | ≈ ₹381 a month | No | 0 / 100 | No, dollars | – |
The alternatives, one by one
Hostinger
Best for: Low-cost web hosting, WordPress hosting and VPS. Suits startups.
From ≈ ₹219 a month (converted from dollars). Bills in rupees: “India page (hostinger.in redirects here) shows web hosting prices in INR”. Our score: 40 out of 100 (4 of 8 checks read).
Bluehost India
Best for: Shared and WordPress hosting with prices in rupees. Suits SMBs and bloggers.
From ₹199 a month. Our score: 30 out of 100 (3 of 8 checks read).
GoDaddy Hosting
Best for: Web hosting and domains with plans priced in rupees. Suits SMBs and beginners.
From ₹89 a month. Widely used by Indian teams. Our score: 30 out of 100 (3 of 8 checks read).
HostGator India
Best for: Low-priced cPanel hosting with plans priced in rupees. Suits student developers and freelance web designers.
From ₹79 a month. Our score: 30 out of 100 (3 of 8 checks read).
ResellerClub
Best for: Web hosting and domains sold in rupees, with a reseller model. Suits web designers and digital agencies.
From ₹160 a month. Our score: 30 out of 100 (3 of 8 checks read).
Railway
Best for: Vercel for the backend. Spin up APIs, databases, and cron jobs instantly. Suits startups.
Free plan; paid price not stated. Bills in dollars: “USD billing only; 1 USD ≈ ₹84”. Our score: 20 out of 100 (4 of 8 checks read). Vendor pricing page.
Render
Best for: Simple cloud hosting — web services, Postgres, cron jobs from one dashboard. Suits startups.
Free plan; paid price not stated. Bills in dollars: “All prices in USD; no INR billing is available”. Our score: 20 out of 100 (5 of 8 checks read). Vendor pricing page.
DigitalOcean
Best for: Simpler cloud infrastructure for startups and growth teams review. Suits startups.
From ≈ ₹381 a month (converted from dollars). Bills in dollars: “Payments are processed in USD, and standard 18% GST applies under RCM for Indian entities”. Our score: 0 out of 100 (5 of 8 checks read). Vendor pricing page.
Before you switch
- Billing: ask each vendor whether it invoices in rupees with GST. Where we have not read the answer, the table says “Not checked”, not “No”.
- Data: exports differ. Try one real export from Cloudways into the new tool on a free plan before you pay for a year.
- Price: a monthly figure is for one seat or the entry plan. Work out your own number of users, and read the vendor page linked under each tool.
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How this page is made
This page is built by a script from the same files as our tool pages, so it changes when a price, a score or an India-fit answer changes. Alternatives are picked by what we list for Cloudways (its curated alternatives, the same use case and sub-category, shared tags and the compare pages we have), then ordered with Indian-built tools first, then by our score. A tool is left out when we have fewer than five real matches. Prices come from each vendor's own pricing page as read on our tool pages; the dates above are the days we read them. We may earn a commission on some vendor links elsewhere on the site; it does not change the order here. How the score works.