DigitalOcean
- Categories
- Cloud VPS, GPU clouds, Inference hosts
- Owned by
- DigitalOcean Holdings (NYSE: DOCN)
- HQ
- US
- Website
- https://www.digitalocean.com/products/gradient/platform
- Pricing page
- https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/inference/details/pricing/
- Offers
- VMs, containers, managed k8s, object storage, managed DB, app platform, GPU
- Fee model
- per_token+per_second_gpu
- Fees
- Serverless: per-token, prepaid balance only. Dedicated inference per GPU-hour (e.g. H100 $4.41/h, H200 $4.47/h, 8xH100 $30.32/h, MI300X $2.59/h, B300 $10.39/h). Batch up to 50% off on OpenAI/Anthropic models only. BYOM weight storage $5/mo. Web search $10/1k req, web fetch $3/1k req.
- Free tier
- no
- OpenAI-compatible API
- yes
- Bring your own key
- yes
- Notes
- Base URL https://inference.do-ai.run (OpenAI-compatible). Also resells Anthropic/OpenAI commercial models; with your own Anthropic/OpenAI keys billing goes to the upstream provider. Doc page "Last verified 16 Sep 2026".
- Sources
- https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/inference/details/pricing/ https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/inference/details/models/ collected 2026-09-18
LLM prices (23 models, USD per 1M tokens)
| Model | Input | Output | Cached input | Context | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | $3 | $15 | $0.30 | — | ✓ src src2 |
| DeepSeek V3.2 deepseek-3.2 |
$0.25 | $0.80 | $0.075 | 164k | ✓ src src2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 deepseek-4-flash |
$0.068 | $0.168 | $0.017 | 1.05M | ✓ src src2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 deepseek-v4-flash-0731 |
$0.08 | $0.252 | $0.025 | 1.05M | ✓ src src2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 deepseek-v4-pro |
$0.87 | $1.74 | $0.174 | 1.05M | ✓ src src2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 deepseek-v4-pro-0813 |
$1.32 | $3.96 | $0.044 | 1.05M | ✓ src src2 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash deepseek-v4.1-flash |
$0.30 | $1.20 | $0.006 | 1.05M | ✓ src src2 |
| Gemma 4 31B gemma-4-31B-it |
$0.18 | $0.50 | $0.036 | 256k | ✓ src src2 |
| GLM-5.2 glm-5.2 |
$0.70 | $2.20 | $0.105 | 262k | ✓ src src2 |
| GLM-5.3 glm-5.3 |
$0.95 | $3.40 | $0.20 | 1.05M | ✓ src src2 |
| GLM-5.3 Flash glm-5.3-flash |
$0.15 | $0.50 | $0.03 | 1.05M | ✓ src src2 |
| GPT-5.4 | $2.50 | $15 | $0.25 | 1M | ✓ src src2 |
| gpt-oss-120b openai-gpt-oss-120b |
$0.055 | $0.385 | — | 128k | ✓ src src2 |
| gpt-oss-20b openai-gpt-oss-20b |
$0.05 | $0.45 | — | 128k | ✓ src src2 |
| Kimi K2.6 kimi-k2.6 |
$0.95 | $4 | $0.19 | 262k | ✓ src src2 |
| Kimi K3 kimi-k3 |
$2.55 | $12.95 | $0.285 | 1.05M | ✓ src src2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct llama-4-maverick |
$0.25 | $0.87 | — | 128k | ✓ src src2 |
| MiMo V2.5 Pro mimo-v2.5-pro |
$0.40 | $1.50 | $0.08 | 262k | ✓ src src2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 minimax-m2.5 |
$0.30 | $1.20 | $0.06 | 66k | ✓ src src2 |
| Ministral 3 14B mistral-3-14B |
$0.20 | $0.20 | — | 262k | ✓ src src2 |
| NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (Preview) nemotron-3-ultra-550b |
$0.90 | $1.70 | — | 131k | ✓ src src2 |
| Qwen3.5-397B-A17B qwen3.5-397b-a17b |
$0.55 | $3.50 | $0.111 | 131k | ✓ src src2 |
| Trinity Large (Thinking) arcee-trinity-large-thinking |
$0.25 | $0.90 | $0.06 | 128k | ✓ src src2 |
GPU rates
| Provider | GPU | GPUs | VRAM/GPU | Billing | Per GPU-hr | Instance /hr | Region | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | L40S | 1 | 48 GB | on demand | $1.57 | $1.57 | ✓ src | |
| DigitalOcean | MI300X | 1 | 192 GB | reserved 1y | $1.91 | $1.91 | ◐ src ⓘ | |
| DigitalOcean | MI300X | 1 | 192 GB | on demand | $2.59 | $2.59 | ✓ src ⓘ | |
| DigitalOcean | MI300X | 8 | 192 GB | on demand | $2.59 | $20.72 | ✓ src ⓘ | |
| DigitalOcean | H100 SXM | 1 | 80 GB | reserved 1y | $3.26 | $3.26 | ◐ src ⓘ | |
| DigitalOcean | H200 | 1 | 141 GB | reserved 1y | $3.40 | $3.40 | ◐ src ⓘ | |
| DigitalOcean | H100 SXM | 1 | 80 GB | on demand | $4.41 | $4.41 | ✓ src ⓘ | |
| DigitalOcean | H100 SXM | 8 | 80 GB | on demand | $4.41 | $35.28 | ✓ src ⓘ | |
| DigitalOcean | H200 | 8 | 141 GB | on demand | $4.47 | $35.76 | ✓ src ⓘ | |
| DigitalOcean | H200 | 1 | 141 GB | on demand | $4.47 | $4.47 | ✓ src ⓘ |
Hosting plans
| Provider | Plan | From /mo | Spec | Included egress | Egress overage | Scale to zero | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean Cloud VPS |
Basic Droplet 512MiB | $4 | 1 vCPU · 0.5 GB RAM · 10 GB disk | 500 GiB | $0.01/GB | no | ◐ src ⓘ |
| DigitalOcean Cloud VPS |
Basic Droplet 1GiB | $6 | 1 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · 25 GB disk | 1000 GiB | $0.01/GB | no | ◐ src |