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DigitalOcean vs HyperAI

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What's good about...

DigitalOcean logo DigitalOcean

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

HyperAI logo HyperAI

  • Free CPU tier with 8 vCPU and 16 GB RAM
  • Every GPU model available in 1, 2, 4, and 8-GPU shapes
  • Pro membership at $4.99 / mo includes 30 hours of RTX 5090 compute and 50 GB storage
  • 20 GB of persistent storage included at no cost
  • Curated datasets and tutorials launch directly into containers

Price comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against HyperAI?

VM Small

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)
HyperAI HyperAI
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VM Medium

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)
HyperAI HyperAI
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VM Large

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
HyperAI HyperAI
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Block Storage

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$10.00 / mo 100 GB
HyperAI HyperAI
$9.00 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$20.00 / mo 1 TiB
HyperAI HyperAI
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Load Balancer

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$12.00 / mo
HyperAI HyperAI
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Managed PostgreSQL

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage
HyperAI HyperAI
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Managed Redis®*

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
HyperAI HyperAI
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Serverless 25M Executions

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
$34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
HyperAI HyperAI
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Free egress allowance

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance
HyperAI HyperAI
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

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

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
HyperAI HyperAI
H100 $4.41 $1.80

Billing Options

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
On-DemandSpotReserved (12mo)
HyperAI HyperAI
On-DemandReserved (1mo)

Available Models

DigitalOcean offers 10 GPU models, while HyperAI offers 5.

DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
H100(3) H200(3) L40S(1) B300(2) RTX 6000 Ada(1) MI300X(3) RTX 4000 Ada(1) MI325X(3) MI355X(1) MI350X(2)
HyperAI HyperAI
H100(6) RTX PRO 6000(8) V100(4) RTX 5090(8) RTX 3090(8)

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. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that DigitalOcean and HyperAI offer:

Service DigitalOcean HyperAI
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
Python Notebooks
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
digitalocean.com
HyperAI HyperAI
hyper.ai
Headquarters
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
United States of America US flag
HyperAI HyperAI
Hong Kong HK flag
Founded
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
2011
HyperAI HyperAI
2017
Data Center Locations
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
14
HyperAI HyperAI
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Example Customers
DigitalOcean DigitalOcean
Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai
HyperAI HyperAI
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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Sept. 3, 2026, and for HyperAI on Sept. 3, 2026.