What's good about...

DigitalOcean logo 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

DigitalOcean logo Replicate

  • Run AI/ML models without worrying about infrastructure and scaling
  • Excellent web UI to explore and try out models without code
  • Train and deploy custom models using Cog

Price comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Replicate?

Example configuration DigitalOcean Replicate
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 --

Replicate uses a metered billing model. You only pay as long as your code is running, billed by the second based on the hardware selected.

Replicate offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs Total GPU Memory vCPUs RAM Price per hour
Nvidia T4 1x T4 16GB 4 16GB $0.81
Nvidia A40 (Small) 1x A40 48GB 4 16GB $2.07
Nvidia A40 (Large) 1x A40 48GB 10 72GB $2.61
Nvidia A100 (40GB) 1x A100 40GB 10 72GB $4.14
Nvidia A100 (80GB) 1x A100 80GB 10 144GB $5.04
2x Nvidia A40 (Large) 2x A40 96GB 20 144GB $5.22
2x Nvidia A100 (40GB) 2x A100 80GB 20 144GB $8.28
2x Nvidia A100 (80GB) 2x A100 160GB 20 288GB $10.08
4x Nvidia A40 (Large) 4x A40 192GB 40 288GB $10.44
4x Nvidia A100 (40GB) 4x A100 160GB 40 288GB $16.56
4x Nvidia A100 (80GB) 4x A100 320GB 40 576GB $20.16
8x Nvidia A40 (Large) 8x A40 384GB 48 680GB $20.88
8x Nvidia A100 (80GB) 8x A100 640GB 80 960GB $40.32

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 of the managed services that DigitalOcean and Replicate offer:

Service DigitalOcean Replicate
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
Website digitalocean.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2011
Data Center Locations 14
Example Customers Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai
Replicate
Website replicate.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2019
Data Center Locations --
Example Customers BuzzFeed, PhotoAI, Magnific, Unsplash, HeadshotPro

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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for Replicate on July 24, 2024.