GPU instances

DigitalOcean GPU Droplets vs Lambda

Choose DigitalOcean GPU Droplets when you want an RTX 4000 Ada at $0.76 per GPU-hour in the same account as your other DigitalOcean services. Choose Lambda when you want a published NVIDIA price list, starting at $0.69 per GPU-hour for a Quadro RTX 6000.

DigitalOcean GPU Droplets

On-demand GPUs in the same account as Droplets

From $0.76/hr

Strengths

  • The RTX 4000 Ada plan is a published $0.76 per GPU-hour
  • Billing is per second after a short minimum

Limits

  • An on-demand H100 is $4.41 per GPU-hour
  • Spot GPUs can be reclaimed

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Lambda

On-demand NVIDIA instances with a published hourly rate

From $0.69/hr

Strengths

  • Each instance type has a posted price per GPU-hour
  • On-demand instances bill in one-minute increments

Limits

  • The $0.69 plan is a Quadro RTX 6000, not a current datacenter GPU
  • An 8-GPU H100 SXM is $3.99 per GPU-hour

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