DigitalOcean
vs
Hyperstack
What's good about each
- Monthly price caps on bundled Droplet plans
- Nvidia and AMD GPU Droplets, plus bare metal
- Outbound traffic allowance shared across the whole account
- Large tutorial library and 1-click app marketplace
- No egress or ingress fees
- SR-IOV networking up to 350 Gb/s in Canada and the US
- Free Kubernetes master and load balancer nodes
- GB200 and GB300 NVL72 clusters on reservation
- SOC 2 Type 2 audited
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | DigitalOcean | Hyperstack | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $6.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $48.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) | $252.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (n1-cpu-small) | 81% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Large VM | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | $468.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (n1-cpu-medium) | 64% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Block storage | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | $6.97 /mo 100 GB SSD | 30% cheaper on Hyperstack |
| Object storage | $20.00 /mo 1 TB | $13.97 /mo 1 TB | 30% cheaper on Hyperstack |
| PostgreSQL | $60.90 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $15.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Valkey) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $12.00 /mo Regional HTTP, 1 node | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $34.69 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | 500 GB - 12 TB / mo per instance, pooled | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $10.00 /TB $0.01 / GB | Free and unlimited |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
DigitalOcean offers 10 GPU models, while Hyperstack offers 9. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | DigitalOcean | Hyperstack | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
3 configs · 17 configs
|
$4.41 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 43% cheaper on Hyperstack |
|
B300
2 configs · 1 config
|
$7.94 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | $7.40 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Different terms |
|
H200
3 configs · 2 configs
|
$4.47 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.99 /GPU/hr On-demand | 11% cheaper on Hyperstack |
MI355X
1 config
|
$2.97 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
MI300X
3 configs
|
$1.91 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
L40S
1 config
|
$1.57 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
RTX 6000 Ada
1 config
|
$1.57 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
B200
2 configs
|
-- | $5.10 /GPU/hr Reserved | Hyperstack only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
8 configs
|
-- | $1.30 /GPU/hr Reserved | Hyperstack only |
|
A100
14 configs
|
-- | $0.95 /GPU/hr Reserved | Hyperstack only |
DigitalOcean bills on-demand, spot and reserved (12 months); Hyperstack bills on-demand, spot and reserved. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | DigitalOcean | Hyperstack |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II, NexGen Cloud (operator) |
| ISO 27001 | Data centers only | -- |
| HIPAA | Yes | -- |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | SAQ-A | -- |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | DigitalOcean | Hyperstack |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | USA | UK |
| Locations | 16 | 3 |
| Example customers | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai | -- |
| Website | digitalocean.com | www.hyperstack.cloud |
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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Hyperstack on Oct. 1, 2026.