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
RunPod
- Affordable GPUs in various configurations
- Packed with features: hot-reloading, managed containers, logging & monitoring
- Available in 30+ regions across the world
Price comparison
How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against RunPod?
| Example configuration |
DigitalOcean
|
RunPod
|
|---|---|---|
| VM Small | $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) | $43.20 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) |
| VM Medium | $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) | $86.40 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) |
| VM Large | $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | $172.80 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) |
| Block Storage | $10.00 / mo 100 GB | $10.00 / mo $0.10 / GB / 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 | Free and unlimited |
DigitalOcean offers GPUs in the following configurations:
| Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia H100 | 1x H100 | 80GB | 20 | 240GB | $6.74 | |
| Nvidia H100x8 | 8x H100 | 640GB | 160 | 1920GB | $47.60 | |
RunPod offers GPUs in the following configurations:
| Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX3070 | 1x RTX3070 | 8GB | 16 | 31GB | $0.13 | |
| A4000 | 1x A4000 | 16GB | 4 | 17GB | $0.17 | |
| A4500 | 1x A4500 | 20GB | 4 | 29GB | $0.19 | |
| A4000 Ada | 1x A4000 | 20GB | 4 | 31GB | $0.20 | |
| A30 | 1x A30 | 24GB | 8 | 31GB | $0.22 | |
| A5000 | 1x A5000 | 24GB | 4 | 24GB | $0.22 | |
| RTX4090 | 1x RTX4090 | 24GB | 7 | 24GB | $0.44 | |
| A40 | 1x A40 | 48GB | 9 | 50GB | $0.47 | |
| A6000 | 1x A6000 | 48GB | 8 | 50GB | $0.49 | |
| L40S | 1x L40S | 48GB | 12 | 62GB | $0.79 | |
| A6000 Ada | 1x A6000 | 48GB | 14 | 62GB | $0.79 | |
| MI250 | 1x MI250 | 128GB | -- | -- | $0.90 | |
| L40 | 1x L40S | 48GB | 16 | 250GB | $0.99 | |
| A100 PCIe | 1x A100 | 80GB | 8 | 83GB | $1.19 | |
| A100 SXM | 1x A100 | 80GB | 16 | 125GB | $1.94 | |
| H100 PCIe | 1x H100 | 80GB | 16 | 176GB | $2.69 | |
| H100 SXM | 1x H100 | 80GB | 24 | 125GB | $2.99 | |
| MI300X | 1x MI300X | 192GB | 24 | 283GB | $3.99 | |
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 RunPod offer:
| Service |
DigitalOcean
|
RunPod
|
|---|---|---|
| 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
|
RunPod
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Website | digitalocean.com | www.runpod.io |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2011 | 2022 |
| Data Center Locations | 14 | 24 |
| Example Customers | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai | AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu |
|
DigitalOcean
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | digitalocean.com |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2011 |
| Data Center Locations | 14 |
| Example Customers | Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai |
|
RunPod
|
|
|---|---|
| Website | www.runpod.io |
| Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
| Founded | 2022 |
| Data Center Locations | 24 |
| Example Customers | AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu |
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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Oct. 2, 2024, and for RunPod on Sept. 25, 2024.