CUDO Compute vs DigitalOcean

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

CUDO Compute

Offers affordable cloud GPUs
Can customize the number of CPUs and RAM
Available in 12 data center locations around the world

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 CUDO Compute's prices compare against DigitalOcean?

Example configuration	CUDO Compute	DigitalOcean
VM Small	$7.96 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM	$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)
VM Medium	$32.65 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)
VM Large	$54.86 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
Block Storage	$8.77 / mo 100 GB	$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

CUDO Compute offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
RTX A4000	1x A4000	16GB	4	16GB	$0.40	Source
RTX A5000	1x A5000	24GB	4	16GB	$0.43	Source
RTX A4000 Ada	1x A4000	20GB	4	16GB	$0.46	Source
A40	1x A40	48GB	4	16GB	$0.47	Source
RTX A6000	1x A6000	48GB	4	16GB	$0.53	Source
V100	1x V100	16GB	4	16GB	$0.54	Source
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	4	16GB	$1.54	Source
A100 PCIe	1x A100	80GB	4	16GB	$1.62	Source
H200	1x H200	141GB	--	--	$2.49	Source
H100 NVL	1x H100	94GB	4	16GB	$2.56	Source
H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	4	16GB	$2.92	Source
MI250	1x MI250	128GB	--	--	On Request	Source
MI300	1x MI300X	192GB	--	--	On Request	Source
B100	1x B100	192GB	--	--	On Request	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 CUDO Compute and DigitalOcean offer:

Service	CUDO Compute	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

	CUDO Compute	DigitalOcean
Website	www.cudocompute.com	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United Kingdom 🇬🇧	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2017	2011
Data Center Locations	13	14
Example Customers	Blendergrid, Nuco.cloud, dstack, MetaHub	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai

	CUDO Compute
Website	www.cudocompute.com
Headquarters	United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Founded	2017
Data Center Locations	13
Example Customers	Blendergrid, Nuco.cloud, dstack, MetaHub

	DigitalOcean
Website	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011
Data Center Locations	14
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai