DigitalOcean vs RunPod

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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

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 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 SXM	1x H100	80GB	20	240GB	$3.39	Launch
Nvidia H100 SXM	8x H100	640GB	160	1920GB	$23.92	Launch

RunPod offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
A30	1x A30	24GB	8	31GB	$0.22	Source
RTX A4000	1x A4000	16GB	4	20GB	$0.32	Source
A4500	1x A4500	20GB	4	29GB	$0.34	Source
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	4	24GB	$0.36	Source
A40	1x A40	48GB	9	50GB	$0.39	Source
RTX4090	1x RTX 4090	24GB	5	30GB	$0.69	Source
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	62GB	$0.76	Source
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	12	62GB	$0.86	Source
A6000 Ada	1x A6000	48GB	14	58GB	$0.88	Source
L40	1x L40S	48GB	8	94GB	$0.99	Source
A100 PCIe	1x A100	80GB	8	117GB	$1.64	Source
A100 SXM	1x A100	80GB	16	125GB	$1.89	Source
MI250	1x MI250	128GB	--	--	$2.10	Source
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	16	188GB	$2.39	Source
H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	16	125GB	$2.99	Source
MI300X	1x MI300X	192GB	24	283GB	$2.99	Source
H200 SXM	1x H200	141GB	--	--	$3.99	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 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