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Cerebrium vs DigitalOcean

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What's good about...

Cerebrium logo Cerebrium

  • Pay-per-second pricing with no cost for idle GPUs
  • Cold start times as low as a few seconds
  • Automatic scaling from zero to thousands of requests
  • Wide range of GPU options from T4 to H200
  • First 100GB storage free

DigitalOcean logo DigitalOcean

  • Simple, developer-first cloud
  • Predictable pricing & monthly caps
  • AI platform powered by Paperspace GPUs
  • Vast library of tutorials & 1-click apps

Price comparison

How do Cerebrium's prices compare against DigitalOcean?

VM Small

Closest config to 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM.
Cerebrium Cerebrium
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)

VM Medium

Closest config to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
Cerebrium Cerebrium
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)

VM Large

Closest config to 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (dedicated preferred).
Cerebrium Cerebrium
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)

Block Storage

Closest config to 100+ GB SSD, 3,000+ IOPS, 100+ MB/s throughput, no snapshots.
Cerebrium Cerebrium
$5.00 / mo 100 GB beyond free allowance
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$10.00 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Closest config to 1 TB stored, 100 GB in / 250 GB out, 1M GET, 100k PUT/POST.
Cerebrium Cerebrium
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$20.00 / mo 1 TiB

Load Balancer

Closest config to TCP, 1 node (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM), 200+ Mbps, 1,000 conn/sec, 1 TB processed/mo.
Cerebrium Cerebrium
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$12.00 / mo

Managed PostgreSQL

Closest config to 1 node, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50+ GB storage, 10 GB read / 5 GB write per month.
Cerebrium Cerebrium
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage

Managed Redis®*

Closest config to 1 node, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 req/s, 1 KB avg request size.
Cerebrium Cerebrium
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM

Serverless 25M Executions

Closest config to 25M invocations, 150ms execution time, 512 MB memory.
Cerebrium Cerebrium
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Cerebrium Cerebrium
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Cerebrium Cerebrium
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$10.00 $0.01 / GB
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GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

Cheapest rate per GPU per hour for the cards both providers sell, compared on a billing mode they both publish.

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Cerebrium Cerebrium
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
H100 $2.21 $4.41 H200 $3.30 $4.47 L40S $1.95 $1.57

Billing Options

Cerebrium Cerebrium
On-Demand
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
On-DemandSpotReserved (12mo)

Available Models

Ranked by how many providers list each card. The number beside a GPU is how many instance configurations this provider sells it in, not how many are in stock.

Cerebrium offers 7 GPU models, while DigitalOcean offers 9.

Cerebrium Cerebrium
H100(1) A100(2) H200(1) L40S(1) L4(1) A10(1) T4(1)
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
H100(2) H200(2) L40S(1) B300(2) RTX 6000 Ada(1) MI300X(2) RTX 4000 Ada(1) MI325X(2) MI355X(1)

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Cerebrium and DigitalOcean offer:

Service Cerebrium 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

Website
Cerebrium Cerebrium
www.cerebrium.ai
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
digitalocean.com
Headquarters
Cerebrium Cerebrium
United States of America
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
United States of America
Founded
Cerebrium Cerebrium
2021
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
2011
Data Center Locations
Cerebrium Cerebrium
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DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
14
Example Customers
Cerebrium Cerebrium
Deepgram, Vapi, Tavus, bitHuman
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Cerebrium was last updated on Feb. 12, 2026, and for DigitalOcean on Aug. 22, 2026.

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B200 @ $3.75/h on demand
No contract, no spot interrupts, no cluster minimums
Full root SSH, web dashboard, CI/CD ready
Reserve Now