DigitalOcean vs Lambda Labs

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

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

Lambda Labs

Offers high-performance GPUs such as the Nvidia H100, H200, and GH200
Easy to use dashboard and competitive prices
Private cloud available (isolated, physical access)

Price comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Lambda Labs?

Example configuration	DigitalOcean	Lambda Labs
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	$20.00 / mo 100 GB @ $0.20/GB/mo
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	Free and unlimited

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

Lambda Labs offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
1x RTX6000	1x RTX 6000	24GB	14	46GB	$0.50	Launch
1x A10	1x A10G	24GB	30	200GB	$0.75	Launch
1x A6000	1x A6000	48GB	14	100GB	$0.80	Launch
1x A100 SXM	1x A100	40GB	30	200GB	$1.29	Launch
2x A6000	2x A6000	96GB	28	200GB	$1.60	Launch
1x H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	26	200GB	$2.49	Launch
2x A100	2x A100	80GB	60	400GB	$2.58	Launch
Nvidia GH200	1x GH200	96GB	64	432GB	$3.19	Source
4x A6000	4x A6000	192GB	56	400GB	$3.20	Launch
8x V100	8x V100	128GB	92	448GB	$4.40	Launch
4x A100	4x A100	160GB	120	800GB	$5.16	Launch
8x A100	8x A100	320GB	124	1800GB	$10.32	Launch
8x H100 SXM	8x H100	640GB	208	1800GB	$23.92	Launch
Nvidia H200 SXM	8x H200	1128GB	224	--	On Request	Source
B200	8x B200	1440GB	224	--	On Request	Source

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 DigitalOcean and Lambda Labs offer:

Service	DigitalOcean	Lambda Labs
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

	DigitalOcean	Lambda Labs
Website	digitalocean.com	lambdalabs.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011	2012
Data Center Locations	14	15
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai	Microsoft, Airbus, Covariant, Comma.ai, Samsung, Pika

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

	Lambda Labs
Website	lambdalabs.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2012
Data Center Locations	15
Example Customers	Microsoft, Airbus, Covariant, Comma.ai, Samsung, Pika