DigitalOcean vs Replicate

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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

Replicate

Run AI/ML models without having to manage the infrastructure
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 $0.01 / GB	--

DigitalOcean GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
Nvidia H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	20	240GB	$3.39	Source
Nvidia H100 SXM	8x H100	640GB	160	1920GB	$23.92	Source

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 GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
1x Nvidia T4	1x T4	16GB	4	16GB	$0.81	Source
1x Nvidia L40S	1x L40S	48GB	10	65GB	$3.51	Source
1x Nvidia A100 (80GB)	1x A100	80GB	10	144GB	$5.04	Source
1x Nvidia H100	1x H100	80GB	13	72GB	$5.49	Source
2x Nvidia L40S	2x L40S	96GB	20	144GB	$7.02	Source
2x Nvidia A100 (80GB)	2x A100	160GB	20	288GB	$10.08	Source
2x Nvidia H100	2x H100	160GB	26	144GB	$10.98	Source
4x Nvidia A100 (80GB)	4x A100	320GB	40	576GB	$20.16	Source
4x Nvidia H100	4x H100	320GB	52	288GB	$21.96	Source
8x Nvidia A100 (80GB)	8x A100	640GB	80	960GB	$40.32	Source
8x Nvidia H100	8x H100	640GB	104	576GB	$43.92	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 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	Replicate
Website	digitalocean.com	replicate.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011	2019
Data Center Locations	14	--
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai	BuzzFeed, Labelbox, PhotoAI, Character.ai, Magnific, Unsplash, HeadshotPro

	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, Labelbox, PhotoAI, Character.ai, Magnific, Unsplash, HeadshotPro