DigitalOcean Gradient AI Platform & GPU Droplets
GPU / AI cloud
Provided by DigitalOcean, LLC
Offering overview
Simplicity has long been DigitalOcean's angle, and its AI line follows suit. GPU Droplets are single- or eight-GPU virtual machines billed hourly on demand: NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada at $0.76/hr, RTX 6000 Ada and L40S at $1.57/hr, AMD Instinct MI300X at $2.59/hr, HGX H100 at $4.41/hr and H200 at $4.47/hr, with spot pricing on MI350X, MI355X and B300 and discounted 12-month reserved terms. Bare Metal GPUs and 1-Click Models (Hugging Face and DeepSeek images) sit alongside. The Gradient AI Platform layers managed services on top: Serverless Inference exposing more than 70 open-weight and frontier models behind one endpoint, Dedicated Inference on reserved GPUs, Batch Inference at up to 50% lower cost, Knowledge Bases for managed RAG, Managed Weaviate as a vector store from $20/month, and Managed Agents with a durable runtime and tool gateway. Sixteen data centers in 13 regions cover the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, India, Singapore and Australia. Startups and small engineering teams that want GPU access and agent tooling alongside their existing Droplets are the target. DigitalOcean, LLC lists Broomfield, Colorado as its notice address.
- Management
- Not stated
- Infrastructure
- Not stated
- Pricing model
- Not stated
- Support
- Not stated
- SLA
- Not stated
- Best for
- Model Inference, AI Agents, AI Applications, Model Training, Fine-Tuning, Vector Search, Batch Processing
Technical specifications
- Containers
- Unknown
- Kubernetes
- Unknown
- Root access
- Unknown
- API access
- Unknown
- Autoscaling
- Unknown
- Persistent processes
- Unknown
AI capabilities
- Model serving
- Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude
- AI frameworks
- Not stated
- Inference endpoints
- Unknown
- Fine-tuning
- Unknown
- Vector database
- Unknown
- Model catalog
- Unknown
- Monitoring
- Not stated
- Evaluation
- Not stated
Security & compliance
No controls are stated.
Geography
Provider headquarters are separate from offering infrastructure and availability.
Infrastructure regions
Netherlands, Europe · India, Asia · Canada, North America · United Kingdom, Europe · Germany, Europe · Singapore, Asia · Australia, Oceania · United States, North America
Data-residency jurisdictions
Not stated
Service availability
Not stated
Support coverage
Not stated
Available plans
Pricing can change. Promotional prices are shown separately from standard prices.
| Plan | Price | Compute | Storage | GPU | Price checked | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean Gradient AI Platform & GPU DropletsNot stated | $0.76Usage Only | Unknown — RAM | Unknown | No | 7 October 2026 |
Data sources & provenance
Where this information came from, how it was checked and when it was last looked at. “Last updated” records a change to the record — it does not mean the record was verified.
- Data quality
- Data quality: Unverified
- Primary source
- digitalocean.com
- Sources cited
- 2
- Last reviewed
- 7 October 2026
- Last updated
- 7 October 2026