DigitalOcean vs The Cloud Minders

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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

The Cloud Minders

AI/ML infrastructure tailored to your needs
Offers the latest Nvidia GPUs such as the H200
SOC 1 Type 2 data centers

Price comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against The Cloud Minders?

Example configuration	DigitalOcean	The Cloud Minders
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	$10.00 / mo 1 TB
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

The Cloud Minders offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
V100	1x V100	16GB	6	32GB	$0.24	Source
A4000	1x A4000	16GB	5	32GB	$0.40	Source
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	5	64GB	$0.55	Source
A4000 Ada	1x A4000	20GB	5	64GB	$0.55	Source
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	32	192GB	$3.53	Source
H100 NVL	1x H100	94GB	32	192GB	$4.05	Source
H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	24	256GB	$4.52	Source
B200	1x B200	180GB	--	--	On Request	Source
H200 SXM	8x H200	1128GB	384	2048GB	On Request	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 The Cloud Minders offer:

Service	DigitalOcean	The Cloud Minders
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	The Cloud Minders
Website	digitalocean.com	thecloudminders.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011	2021
Data Center Locations	14	1
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai	--

	DigitalOcean
Website	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011
Data Center Locations	14
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai