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Founded in 2011, DigitalOcean is a cloud provider focusing on ease of use and simple pricing model. Their offering includes Droplets (virtual private servers), managed Kubernetes, and object storage.

DigitalOcean stands out with its extensive tutorials, documentation, and community, making it a great choice if you're looking for a cloud provider with lots of self-help resources.

Example customers include Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai. More here.

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What's good about DigitalOcean

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

DigitalOcean pricing examples

DigitalOcean's pricing model is usage-based. That means you pay each month based on the resources you configured.

Each VPS instance on DigitalOcean includes an allowance for outbound network traffic each month. The total monthly allowance is pooled from all the instances in your account.

Below are some example configurations and their estimated costs:

Example configuration Estimated cost
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

DigitalOcean GPUs

Here are some of the GPU configurations offered by DigitalOcean:

10 GPU models

How this list works

Order

  • By GPU model: one card per GPU, the most looked-up models first, then the most widely offered ones.
  • By configuration: every configuration we track. What you can rent now comes first, and within that one row per GPU model before any repeats, so the opening rows cover the range rather than one model's sizes.

The price on a card

Each card leads with a per GPU per hour rate. We prefer configurations the provider reports as in stock, on-demand rates before reserved or spot, then take the lowest per-GPU rate among those.

Search

We match the GPU model, form factor, billing type, availability and instance name. Matching is partial and case-insensitive. Everyday words work too, so "interruptible" finds spot and "sold out" finds out of stock.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.
Nvidia

3 configs 1x-8x

On-Demand from $4.41 Reserved from $3.26
From $4.41 / GPU / hr On-Demand SXM Visit website
Nvidia

2 configs 1x-8x

Reserved from $7.94 Spot from $11.19
From $7.94 / GPU / hr Reserved (12mo) SXM Visit website
Nvidia

3 configs 1x-8x

On-Demand from $4.47 Reserved from $3.40
From $4.47 / GPU / hr On-Demand SXM Visit website
AMD

3 configs 1x-8x

On-Demand from $2.59 Reserved from $1.91
From $2.59 / GPU / hr On-Demand Visit website
AMD

1 config 8x

Spot from $4.50
From $4.50 / GPU / hr Spot Visit website
Nvidia

1 config 1x

On-Demand from $1.57
From $1.57 / GPU / hr On-Demand Visit website
Nvidia

1 config 1x

On-Demand from $1.57
From $1.57 / GPU / hr On-Demand Visit website
AMD

3 configs 1x-8x

On-Demand from $3.80 Reserved from $2.88
From $3.80 / GPU / hr On-Demand Visit website
Nvidia

1 config 1x

On-Demand from $0.76
From $0.76 / GPU / hr On-Demand Visit website
AMD

2 configs 1x-8x

Reserved from $4.76 Spot from $4.00
From $4.76 / GPU / hr Reserved (12mo) Visit website

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price. See DigitalOcean's pricing.

Which services does DigitalOcean offer

Here are some of the services that DigitalOcean offers:

Data center locations

Based on our records, DigitalOcean operates in the following locations:

Country Location Slug
Australia Sydney syd1
Canada Toronto tor1
Germany Frankfurt fra1
India Bangalore blr1
Netherlands Amsterdam ams3
Netherlands Amsterdam ams2
Singapore Singapore sgp1
UK London lon1
USA New York nyc1
USA New York nyc3
USA New York nyc2
USA San Francisco sfo1
USA San Francisco sfo2
USA San Francisco sfo3

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