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 Shadeform

  • Launch instances anywhere with a single console and API
  • Leverage a multi-cloud set up, without the hassle
  • You can reserve instances in advance to ensure GPU availability
  • Free to use, zero mark-up fees

Price comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Shadeform?

Example configuration DigitalOcean Shadeform
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 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

Shadeform does not charge any fees to use their marketplace. You pay the same price as using the cloud providers directly.

Here are some example configurations:

GPU VRAM Price range (per hour)
Nvidia A4000 16 GB $0.30-0.80
Nvidia A6000 48 GB $0.57-1.93
Nvidia V100 16 GB $0.69-3.06
Nvidia L40S 48 GB $0.99-1.15
Nvidia A100 40 GB $1.29-3.19
Nvidia H100 80 GB $2.48-5.99

You can view the full list here.

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 Shadeform offer:

Service DigitalOcean Shadeform
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
Shadeform
Website shadeform.ai
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2023
Data Center Locations --
Example Customers University of California Berkeley, Magic Studio, Neets.ai, MK1

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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Oct. 2, 2024, and for Shadeform on Aug. 16, 2024.