What's good about...
Build AI
- Cost efficient, claims to save up to 50% on GPU costs
- Predictable interruptions during peak energy hours
- Offers Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs
DigitalOcean
- Wide range of managed services: from databases to serverless to Kubernetes
- Many VPS configurations available (GPUs, high memory, dedicated CPU)
- Plenty of datacenter locations around the world
- There's lots of guides, docs and community tutorials online
Price comparison
How do Build AI's prices compare against DigitalOcean?
| Example configuration |
Build AI
|
DigitalOcean
|
|---|---|---|
| VM Small | -- | $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) |
| VM Medium | -- | $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) |
| VM Large | -- | $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) |
| Block Storage | -- | $10.00 / mo 100 GB |
| Object Storage | -- | $20.00 / mo 1 TiB |
| Load Balancer | -- | $12.00 / mo |
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage |
| Managed Redis®* | -- | $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM |
| Serverless 25M Executions | -- | $34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration |
| Free egress allowance | -- | 100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance |
| 1 TB of egress beyond allowance | -- | $10.00 $0.01 / GB |
What makes Build AI's pricing stand out is that you can run your workload on interruptible GPUs (spot) and save up to 50% of the cost. They claim interruptions last about 2 hours per day, which makes them particularly suited for training workloads.
If you require guaranteed uptime, non-interruptible GPUs can be reserved on their platform too.
Build AI offers GPUs in the following configurations:
| Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A100 (spot) | 1x A100 | 40GB | 15 | 200GB | $1.05 | Source |
| A100 | 1x A100 | 40GB | 15 | 200GB | $1.42 | Source |
| A100 (spot) | 1x A100 | 80GB | 30 | 225GB | $1.45 | Source |
| A100 | 1x A100 | 80GB | 30 | 225GB | $1.97 | Source |
| H100 (spot) | 1x H100 | 80GB | 26 | 225GB | $2.79 | Source |
| H100 | 1x H100 | 80GB | 26 | 225GB | $3.85 | Source |
DigitalOcean offers GPUs in the following configurations:
| Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia H100 SXM | 1x H100 | 80GB | 20 | 240GB | $3.39 | Launch |
| Nvidia H100 SXM | 8x H100 | 640GB | 160 | 1920GB | $23.92 | Launch |
Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.
Which services do they offer?
Here are some managed services that Build AI and DigitalOcean offer:
| Service |
Build AI
|
DigitalOcean
|
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | -- | |
| Content Delivery Network (CDN) | -- | |
| Container Registry | -- | |
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Load Balancer | -- | |
| Managed Containers | -- | |
| Managed Kubernetes | ||
| Managed MySQL | -- | |
| Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
| Managed Redis®* | -- | |
| Object Storage | -- | |
| Serverless Cron Jobs | -- | |
| Serverless Functions | -- | |
| Static Sites | -- | |
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Company details
|
Build AI
|
DigitalOcean
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Website | trybuild.ai | digitalocean.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2024 | 2011 |
| Data Center Locations | 1 | 14 |
| Example Customers | -- | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai |
|
Build AI
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | trybuild.ai |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2024 |
| Data Center Locations | 1 |
| Example Customers | -- |
|
DigitalOcean
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | digitalocean.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Data Center Locations | 14 |
| Example Customers | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai |
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Our data for Build AI was last updated on Oct. 7, 2024, and for DigitalOcean on Nov. 12, 2024.