DigitalOcean
vs
Nebius
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
- Nvidia GPUs from L40S up to GB300 NVL72 racks
- Preemptible GPU instances at a lower hourly rate
- Managed Kubernetes and Slurm clusters at no extra charge
- Free outbound traffic from virtual machines
- Per-token inference API for open-weight models
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | DigitalOcean | Nebius | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $6.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) | $35.71 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (cpu-d3) | 83% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Medium VM | $48.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) | $71.42 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (cpu-d3) | 33% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| Large VM | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | $142.85 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (cpu-d3) | 15% cheaper on Nebius |
| Block storage | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | $7.10 /mo 100 GB (Network SSD) | 29% cheaper on Nebius |
| Object storage | $20.00 /mo 1 TB | $19.42 /mo 1 TB (Standard) | Within 5% |
| PostgreSQL | $60.90 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage | $104.35 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (2vcpu-8gb) | 42% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
| 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 from VMs, billed from Object Storage |
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 Nebius offers 8. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | DigitalOcean | Nebius | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
3 configs · 1 config
|
$4.41 /GPU/hr On-demand | $4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
|
B300
2 configs · 1 config
|
$7.94 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | $9.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Different terms |
|
H200
3 configs · 1 config
|
$4.47 /GPU/hr On-demand | $5.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | 17% cheaper on DigitalOcean |
|
L40S
1 config · 4 configs
|
$1.57 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
MI355X
1 config
|
$2.97 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
MI300X
3 configs
|
$1.91 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
RTX 6000 Ada
1 config
|
$1.57 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | DigitalOcean only |
|
B200
1 config
|
-- | $8.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Nebius only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config
|
-- | $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | Nebius only |
|
GB200
1 config
|
-- | -- On request | Nebius only |
DigitalOcean bills on-demand, spot and reserved (12 months); Nebius bills on-demand and spot. 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 | Nebius |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Data centers only | Yes |
| HIPAA | Yes | 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 | Nebius |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | USA | Netherlands |
| Locations | 16 | 10 |
| Example customers | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai | Revolut, Sword Health, Brave, Voxel51, Recraft |
| Website | digitalocean.com | nebius.com |
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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Nebius on Oct. 1, 2026.