At a glance
- Business model
- Hyperscalers
- Tier
- Hyperscaler
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
When to pick DigitalOcean
Best for
- Enterprise customers already on AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle.
- Multi-region deployments and complex compliance setups.
- Workloads tightly coupled to other cloud services (S3, BigQuery, etc.).
Avoid for
- Cost-sensitive workloads — hyperscaler pricing is the highest tier.
- Anyone who doesn't already need the surrounding cloud platform.
Price history
Daily median on DigitalOcean's top GPUs.
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GPUs available on DigitalOcean
Compare with peers
Other providers in the same bucket — quick way to sanity-check pricing before committing.
Amazon Web Services
Cheapest: $0.53/hr
· Nvidia T4
· 8 GPUs
EC2 GPU instances (p4, p5, g5, g6) on the largest cloud network. Reserved + Savings Plan discounts available; spot prices fluctuate by region. Best fit when ...
Google Cloud
Cheapest: $0.35/hr
· Nvidia T4
· 7 GPUs
Compute Engine A2/A3 (A100, H100), G2 (L4), and TPU instances. First-class integration with Vertex AI for managed training and serving. Sustained-use discoun...
Microsoft Azure
Cheapest: $0.53/hr
· Nvidia T4
· 6 GPUs
ND/NC/NV-series VMs covering A100, H100, H200, MI300X. Tight integration with Azure ML and OpenAI Service. Reserved Instances and Spot VMs offer up to 90% of...
Oracle Cloud
Cheapest: $2.00/hr
· Nvidia A10
· 5 GPUs
Bare-metal and VM GPU shapes (A10, A100, H100, H200) with RDMA cluster networking that often beats other hyperscalers on $/GPU-hour for large training jobs.
Frequently asked
How is DigitalOcean billing measured?
Most providers bill per-second once the instance is running, with a small minimum (often 60 seconds). Some first-party clouds round up to the minute. Headline $/hr is the right comparison unit.
Which regions does DigitalOcean offer GPUs in?
P2P marketplaces aggregate hosts worldwide so region varies per offer. First-party clouds and hyperscalers expose explicit region pickers (US, EU, APAC). Filter on the provider's site after clicking through if region matters.
Does DigitalOcean offer an SLA?
Hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle) publish formal SLAs. First-party clouds (Lambda, CoreWeave) offer support contracts. P2P marketplaces and decentralized networks have no SLA — uptime depends on the individual host.
What's the refund / cancellation policy on DigitalOcean?
Per-second billing means you only pay for compute used — stop the instance and billing stops. Pre-paid credits and committed-use discounts have provider-specific terms; check the provider's billing docs before pre-paying.