# Cloudways Coupon Code, Deals & Discounts 2026

> Cloudways promo code SAVE303 takes 30% off your first 3 months on any plan. Real prices after the discount, the dead codes named, and how to apply it.

_Source: https://cloudways.theguidex.com/_

_By Sunny Kumar_

## Deals & coupons

- **30% Off for 3 Months on All Plans (Official Code)** (30% OFF) — code `SAVE303` — The code Cloudways itself publishes: 30% off your first 3 months on any Flexible or Autonomous plan. Paste it in the promo field at signup.
- **3-Day Free Trial, No Credit Card Needed** (FREE trial) — Launch a server, install WordPress and test the speed for 3 days without a card. Move to a paid plan only if it earns the switch.
- **DigitalOcean Micro: $14/mo, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe** ($14/mo) — 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB NVMe and 1 TB bandwidth, billed at $0.0208 an hour. Under $10 a month for the first 3 months with SAVE303.
- **DigitalOcean Small: $28/mo, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB NVMe** ($28/mo) — 2 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 50 GB NVMe and 2 TB bandwidth for growing sites. About $19.60 a month for the first 3 months with SAVE303.
- **DigitalOcean Medium: $54/mo, the Most Popular Plan** ($54/mo) — 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, 80 GB NVMe, 4 TB bandwidth and free Object Cache Pro. About $37.80 a month for the first 3 months with SAVE303.
- **DigitalOcean Large: $99/mo, 8 GB RAM for Stores** ($99/mo) — 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 160 GB NVMe and 5 TB bandwidth, sized for WooCommerce and busy sites. About $69.30 a month for the first 3 months with SAVE303.
- **Hourly Billing with No Contract** (No lock-in) — Every server bills by the hour (Micro is $0.0208 an hour), so you pay only for what you run. No 48-month lock-in, no renewal jump, cancel any time.
- **Unlimited Websites and Visits on Every Plan** (Unlimited) — No caps on sites or visits. Host as many applications as the server can handle, even on the $14 Micro plan.
- **Free WordPress Migration** (Free move) — Cloudways moves your first WordPress site over for free, so switching hosts costs no migration fee and no weekend.
- **Lightning Stack and Free Object Cache Pro** (Included) — The Lightning Stack ships on every new server, and Object Cache Pro (valued at $95 a month) is free on servers with 4 GB of RAM or more.
- **Free SSL Certificates on Every Application** (Free SSL) — Free Let's Encrypt SSL installs from the panel in a couple of clicks, so every site runs on HTTPS at no extra cost.
- **Free Staging Environment for Every App** (Staging) — One-click staging lets you test updates and redesigns on a copy of the site, then push them live. Included on all plans.
- **Free AI Copilot Credits with Your Plan** (AI credits) — Plans come with a few free credits for AI Copilot, the assistant that diagnoses server issues inside the panel. Check the current number on the pricing page.
- **Cloudflare Enterprise CDN from $4.99/Domain** ($4.99 add-on) — The enterprise tier of Cloudflare, with edge page caching and smart routing, as a $4.99 per domain per month add-on.
- **Site Manager (Safe Updates) from $3/App** ($3 add-on) — Manage every WordPress site from one dashboard, with safe updates and visual regression testing, from $3 per app per month.
- **Email Hosting from $1.50 per Mailbox** ($1.50 mailbox) — Cloudways does not bundle email. Rackspace mailboxes cost $1.50 each per month, so budget for them if you are leaving a shared host.
- **Malware Protection Add-On from $4 per App** (Security) — Automated malware scanning and removal from $4 per app per month, on top of the built-in server firewall.
- **Choose Your Cloud: DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Google** (5 clouds) — The same managed platform runs on five clouds. DigitalOcean is the value pick; AWS and Google Cloud cost more but suit teams already using them.
- **Cloudways Autonomous: Autoscaling WordPress** (Autoscale) — The hands-off tier for high-traffic WooCommerce and course sites, built to autoscale. SAVE303 applies here too, and it has its own 3-day free trial.
- **Agency Setup: Team Access, Staging and One Bill** (For agencies) — Team member roles, per-app access and staging on one account. It is why many agencies keep every client site on Cloudways.
- **Automated Offsite Backups, Scheduled from the Panel** (Backups) — Scheduled backups plus on-demand ones before risky changes. Offsite backup storage costs $0.033 per GB per server.
- **Advanced Support Add-On ($100/mo, Discounted at Times)** (Support) — Advanced Support covers plugin and theme troubleshooting for $100 a month, and Cloudways has run it at a lower flat rate before. Standard 24/7 support is free on every plan.
- **Seasonal Sale Codes (Summer, Halloween), Only When Live** (Seasonal) — Cloudways runs seasonal codes like SUMMER306 and TREAT23 for a few weeks at a time. With no sale banner on its site, they are dead, so use SAVE303.
- **Black Friday and Cyber Monday: the 40% to 50% Window** (Seasonal) — The deepest Cloudways codes of the year land in late November, when recent sales reached 40% to 50% off for 3 months. Outside that window, 30% is the ceiling.

I have moved enough sites onto cloud servers to know how a search for a Cloudways promo code usually goes. Twenty blogs shout twenty "exclusive" codes at you, and almost every one of them is the same offer wearing a different name.

So let me save you the tabs. There is **one Cloudways code that works for everyone: SAVE303, for 30% off your first 3 months on any plan.** Cloudways publishes it on its own promo page, so it is not a blogger's secret.

This page shows you what that code saves on each plan, what Cloudways really costs once the 3 months end, which codes are dead, and the one window in the year when the deal gets deeper.

## The Cloudways discount, in one line

**Type SAVE303 in the "Got a promo code?" field when you sign up, and your first 3 months are 30% off.** It works on Flexible and Autonomous plans, it is for new customers only, and nothing stacks on top of it.

Click **Get Code** on the top card to copy it. The one thing to remember is timing: the code goes in at signup, not later. Cloudways cannot add a code to an account that already exists.

Everything else on this page is about picking the right server size and knowing the real numbers before you commit.

## What is Cloudways, really?

![Cloudways official promo page with a large heading reading Get 30% Off for 3 Months and a Grab This Deal button](https://static.theguidex.com/images/insights/store-cloudways/promo.png)

_Cloudways' own promo page: 30% off for 3 months, straight from the source._

Let me back up, because Cloudways sits in a middle spot that confuses people.

It is not shared hosting, and it is not a raw cloud server you have to run yourself. **Cloudways rents the server from DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google Cloud, then manages it for you:** the server software, the security patches, the control panel and the backups. You get cloud speed without doing server admin at midnight.

The company started in 2012, and DigitalOcean bought it in 2022, which is why the logo reads "by DigitalOcean". I have run WordPress sites on it, and the short version is this: it is what you move to when shared hosting starts choking.

**Who is it for?** A site that has outgrown the $3-a-month tier. Think a busy blog, a WooCommerce store, or an agency keeping client sites on one bill. If you are launching your first site, a cheaper host makes more sense, and I point at one below.

## Cloudways pricing in 2026, with and without the code

Cloudways bills by the hour and charges monthly, with no contract. The prices below are the DigitalOcean plans, which is where most people start. The other clouds cost more for the same memory.

![Four Cloudways DigitalOcean pricing cards showing Micro at 14 dollars, Small at 28, Medium at 54 marked most popular, and Large at 99 dollars per month, each with RAM, vCPU, NVMe storage and bandwidth specs](https://static.theguidex.com/images/insights/store-cloudways/pricing.png)

_The DigitalOcean plans: $14, $28, $54 and $99 a month, each with unlimited websites and visits._

| Plan | Specs | First 3 months with SAVE303 | After that |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Micro | 1 GB RAM, 25 GB NVMe | ~$9.80/mo | $14/mo |
| Small | 2 GB RAM, 50 GB NVMe | ~$19.60/mo | $28/mo |
| Medium | 4 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe | ~$37.80/mo | $54/mo |
| Large | 8 GB RAM, 160 GB NVMe | ~$69.30/mo | $99/mo |

The right-hand column is the one to plan around. **There is no renewal jump: the price after month 3 is the price you keep paying.** In total, the code saves about $12.60 on Micro and about $48.60 on Medium across the 3 months.

### Micro: one site, your first cloud server

$14 a month for 1 GB of RAM and 1 vCPU, billed at $0.0208 an hour. It runs one WordPress site comfortably. This is the plan to test Cloudways on, and with the code it is under $10 a month.

### Small: a growing site or two

$28 a month doubles the memory and storage. Move here when 1 GB starts to feel tight, because of heavier plugins, more traffic or a small store.

### Medium: the one Cloudways marks Most Popular

$54 a month for 4 GB of RAM and 2 vCPU. This is where I would start a WooCommerce store or a site with real traffic. At 4 GB and up, Cloudways also includes Object Cache Pro for free, which speeds up busy WordPress sites.

### Large: stores and heavy applications

$99 a month for 8 GB of RAM and 4 vCPU. If you are putting several client sites or a busy store on one server, this is the size where they stop fighting over memory.

## Why "40% off Cloudways" is mostly noise

Search results for Cloudways codes are full of numbers bigger than 30. I checked where each one comes from, and here is the honest map.

| What the coupon pages claim | What is actually true |
| --- | --- |
| "40% off, 20 verified codes" | 30% for 3 months; 40% to 50% is Black Friday only |
| "SUMMER306, live now" | Seasonal codes die with the sale |
| "Exclusive code, only here" | The same 30% offer under a different name |
| "Renewal coupon inside" | None exists; after 3 months you pay the plan price |

These codes have all expired: **SUMMER305, SUMMER306, TREAT23, BFCM5050 and DEVOPS40.** If a blog is still showing one of them and Cloudways has no sale banner on its own site, the code is dead.

The "exclusive" partner codes are real codes. They are just not exclusive, and the strongest of them gives the same 30% for 3 months.

One detail worth knowing: **a Cloudways discount is always a percentage off for a set period, never off forever.** A page that implies a permanent 30% price cut has misread the offer.

The deepest real window is late November, when recent Black Friday codes reached 40% to 50% off for 3 months. If you are reading this in October, waiting a few weeks is reasonable. In any other month, SAVE303 is the ceiling.

## What do you actually get with Cloudways?

The plan price covers more than a server, and a few of the extras change the monthly maths. Here are the ones that matter.

### 1. Unlimited websites and visits

No plan caps the number of sites or visits. The server's memory is the only real limit, which is why agencies put a dozen small client sites on one Medium server.

### 2. A 3-day free trial, no card

You can launch a server and test real speed for 3 days without entering a credit card. That is rarer than it should be in hosting, and it is the right way to test Cloudways before the code even comes into it.

### 3. Free migration

Cloudways moves your first WordPress site over for free. Moving is the biggest reason people stay on hosting they have outgrown, so a free move takes that excuse away.

### 4. Object Cache Pro and Redis, free

On servers with 4 GB of RAM or more, Cloudways includes Object Cache Pro, which it values at $95 a month. Redis caching is free on every plan. Both cut database work on busy WordPress and WooCommerce sites.

### 5. Free SSL and one-click staging

Every application gets a free Let's Encrypt SSL certificate and a staging copy for testing updates before they touch the live site. On shared hosts, staging is usually the upsell.

### 6. Cloudflare Enterprise from $4.99

The enterprise tier of Cloudflare, with its edge caching and smart routing, is a $4.99 per domain per month add-on. If your visitors are spread across countries, this plus the right plan makes a real difference, and [site speed is an engineering problem](https://theguidex.com/insights/speed-up-wordpress) before it is a marketing one.

### 7. The add-ons to budget for

Email is not included: Rackspace mailboxes are **$1.50 per mailbox per month.** Site Manager, which handles safe WordPress updates across sites, starts at $3 per app per month, and malware protection at $4 per app. Offsite backup storage is $0.033 per GB. None of these are dealbreakers, but anyone leaving a shared host should budget for the mailboxes.

## How do you claim the Cloudways promo code?

It takes about five minutes, and the code goes in at signup.

### Open Cloudways and start the free trial

Click any deal above to open Cloudways, then hit **Start Free**. The 3-day trial does not need a credit card.

### Paste SAVE303 in the promo field

Click **Get Code** on the top card to copy SAVE303. On the signup form, open **Got a promo code?** and paste it before you create the account. This is the step people miss, because a code cannot be added to an account afterwards.

### Launch a server and let the discount run

Pick DigitalOcean, choose a server size and launch. Once you move from the trial to a paid plan, the 30% comes off your first 3 months of invoices on its own.

## How does Cloudways compare to other hosts?

Different hosts suit different stages of a site. Here is how the maths lines up against the [Hostinger](https://theguidex.com/store/hostinger), [EasyWP](https://theguidex.com/store/easywp) and [WP Engine](https://theguidex.com/store/wpengine) deals we track.

|  | Cloudways | Hostinger | EasyWP | WP Engine |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Entry price | $14/mo | $2.84/mo (48 mo) | $3.24/mo (yearly) | $28/mo (annual) |
| Discount | 30% for 3 months | Long-term pricing | First-term pricing | 20% off annual |
| Lock-in | None, hourly | Up to 48 months | 1 or 2 years | Annual |
| Renewal jump | **None** | $2.84 → $10.99 | $3.24 → $5.74 | Year two |

That last row is the one I want you to sit with. Shared hosts win on the sticker price and then triple it at renewal. **Cloudways charges more on day one and exactly the same on day 400.** Which model costs less depends on how long the site lives.

## Why isn't my Cloudways promo code working?

When a Cloudways code fails, it is nearly always one of four things. I have hit two of them myself.

The first is **timing**. The promo field only exists on the signup form. Once the account exists, no code can be added, and support will not apply one afterwards either.

The second is an **old account**. Every Cloudways promo is for new customers. Signing into an old account, even a dead trial from two years back, rules the code out.

The third is **stacking**. It is one code per account. Typing a second code does not deepen the discount, it just throws an error.

The fourth is a **dead seasonal code** copied from an old blog post, like the expired ones I listed above. If it is not SAVE303 and there is no sale banner on cloudways.com, assume it is dead.

## The honest catch: where Cloudways falls short

Cloudways has real strengths, and real edges too. Here they are before you pay.

> **What to keep in mind**
>
> - **The discount is short.** It lasts 3 months, then full price. On Medium, $37.80 becomes $54, so budget on the full number.
> - **It costs more than shared hosting, for good.** $14 a month against about $3 for shared plans. You are paying for the managed cloud layer.
> - **Email is extra.** $1.50 per mailbox per month. Five mailboxes for three years is $270, so count it when comparing hosts.
> - **You pick the server size.** Hourly billing cuts both ways: an oversized server quietly costs you every month until you notice.

None of these are hidden. They are the shape of the product: a fair, flat cloud price instead of a teaser price with a renewal trap.

## Is Cloudways worth it in 2026?

If your site has outgrown shared hosting, yes. It is one of the two or three hosts I would actually shortlist. **The speed is real, hourly billing is the fairest pricing model in hosting, and the free trial lets you check both before you pay.**

If you are launching your first site on a tight budget, start cheaper. The [Hostinger deal](https://theguidex.com/store/hostinger) gets you online for under $3 a month, and [EasyWP](https://theguidex.com/store/easywp) gives you managed WordPress for a little more. Move to Cloudways when your traffic asks for it.

## Final take

The Cloudways deal is refreshingly simple. **Paste SAVE303 at signup and your first 3 months are 30% off,** on DigitalOcean plans from $14 to $99 a month, with unlimited sites, free SSL, staging and a free migration.

Ignore the "exclusive" codes and the 40% headlines outside November. Test the server on the 3-day trial first, size it honestly, and if you want the site on it built properly, that is the work our [WordPress development](https://theguidex.com/services/wordpress-development) service does.

## Common questions

### Is there a working Cloudways promo code?

Yes. SAVE303 is the code Cloudways publishes on its own promo page. It takes 30% off your first 3 months on any plan when you type it in the promo field at signup. It is for new customers only and does not stack.

### What is the real Cloudways discount in 2026?

The standard offer is 30% off for 3 months. On the $54 Medium plan that saves about $48.60 in total. The 40% to 50% codes are Black Friday only, so outside late November, 30% is the ceiling.

### Does Cloudways have a free trial?

Yes, a 3-day free trial with no credit card. You can launch a server, install WordPress and test the speed before paying. When you move to a paid plan, SAVE303 covers your first 3 months.

### Is there a Cloudways renewal coupon?

No. The promo covers your first 3 months, then you pay the plan price. Cloudways bills hourly with no contract, so there is no renewal jump: the price after month 3 is the price you keep paying.

### How much does Cloudways cost?

DigitalOcean plans are $14 a month for 1 GB of RAM, $28 for 2 GB, $54 for 4 GB and $99 for 8 GB, billed by the hour. Every plan includes unlimited websites and visits. Email is extra at $1.50 per mailbox.

### Where do I enter the Cloudways promo code?

On the signup form, in the "Got a promo code?" field, before you create the account. A code cannot be added to an existing account or applied later, which is the most common reason a Cloudways code seems broken.