DigitalOcean pricing: GPU rental rates
checked 22 October 2026
DigitalOcean rents 9 GPU models today, from $0.76 an hour (RTX 4000 Ada, on-demand). Its cheapest on-demand H100 is $4.41 (H100, on-demand), 34% above the $3.29 market median. Storage, data transfer and billing rules are under the prices.
- Cheapest GPU $0.76 RTX 4000 Ada, on-demand
- H100 market median $3.29 DigitalOcean's H100 is 34% above it
- 15 offers
- 9 GPU models
- Source digitalocean.com
In today's data: DigitalOcean has the cheapest on-demand rate in our index for MI300X and RTX 4000 Ada. None of its 14 matching prices changed since 15 October 2026; 1 configuration is new.
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What else you pay at DigitalOcean
Besides the GPU rate: Storage costs $0.10/GiB/month for Volumes Block Storage. Data in is free. Data out: $0.01/GiB beyond each plan's included transfer. Billing is per second. A stopped instance: full running rate; a powered-off GPU Droplet is billed until destroyed. Minimum rental time: 60 seconds or $0.01, whichever is higher (the GPU Droplets pricing page says a 5-minute minimum). Deposit or first charge: card charged at the end of the billing cycle or when usage passes a threshold. Each of these was checked on DigitalOcean's own documentation on 17 October 2026. Add the charges that apply to you in the job cost calculator.
DigitalOcean prices, checked 22 October 2026
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| GPU / provider | Billing | $/GPU-hour | Node · total per hour | Rent |
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| RTX 4000 Ada · DigitalOcean20 GB · gpu-rtx4000x1-20gb | on-demand | $0.76 | 1× $0.76 | Rent → |
| RTX 6000 Ada · DigitalOcean48 GB · gpu-rtx6000x1-48gb | on-demand | $1.57 | 1× $1.57 | Rent → |
| L40S · DigitalOcean48 GB · NVIDIA L40S 1x | on-demand | $1.57 | 1× $1.57 | Rent → |
| MI300X · DigitalOcean192 GB · ×2 listings | on-demand | $2.59 | 1× $2.59 | Rent →checked 22 OctDetails
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| MI325X · DigitalOcean256 GB · ×2 listings | on-demand | $3.80 | 1× $3.80 | Rent →checked 22 OctDetails
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| H100 · DigitalOcean80 GB · ×2 listings | on-demand | $4.41 | 1× $4.41 | Rent →checked 22 OctDetails
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| H200 (SXM) · DigitalOcean141 GB · ×2 listings | on-demand | $4.47 | 1× $4.47 | Rent →checked 22 OctDetails
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| MI350X · DigitalOcean288 GB · ×2 listings | on-demand | $6.16 | 1× $6.16 | Rent →checked 22 OctDetails
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| B300 · DigitalOcean288 GB · ×2 listings | on-demand | $11.19 | 1× $11.19 | Rent →checked 22 OctDetails
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Tables rank by price, lowest first. Commercial relationships never affect ordering. How we collect and rank prices.
Same GPU, provider, billing and price on several hosts or listings: one row, with the count. – means the provider does not state it.
Monthly view assumes 730 hours of continuous use. Daily view assumes 24 hours.
Cite this data
GPU Rental Prices, "DigitalOcean Pricing (October 2026): GPU Rental Rates + 15 Live Prices", prices checked 22 October 2026, https://gpurentalprices.com/providers/digitalocean
Quote it with a link to this page. Downloads of the whole dataset are on Data & API.
Cheapest listed per-GPU-hour rates verified at the source. Before storage, egress and networking.
DigitalOcean access and company facts
| Check | Published information | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum account funding | card charged at the end of the billing cycle or when usage passes a threshold | 17 October 2026 |
| Founded | 2012 | 17 October 2026 |
| GPU data centres | Eight data centres with GPU Droplets: New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Richmond, Kansas City and Memphis in the United States, Toronto in Canada and Amsterdam in the Netherlands; each GPU model is in some of them | 18 October 2026 |
A company fact or certification is not a guarantee for every product or region. Unrecorded fields are left unknown. The smallest recorded node does not establish immediate stock or account approval.
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
Computed from the verified fees and platform matrix (cells checked 17 October 2026 at DigitalOcean's own documentation; verified items link to their source). Full matrices: fees · enterprise.
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FAQ
The lowest published DigitalOcean rate is $0.76/GPU-hour for the RTX 4000 Ada (on-demand; No reservation; availability: Not reported; checked 22 October 2026). Configuration and billing conditions appear in each row.
DigitalOcean prices 9 GPU models, including H100, H200, B300, L40S, MI300X. The live table above lists every current rate.
DigitalOcean prices are tracked as on-demand. Every row is labeled with its tier and checked at the source on 2026-10-22.
Some DigitalOcean rates are the per-GPU price within a node of up to 8 GPUs. Those rows note the node size, but the $/hr shown is always per single GPU.
Prices collected from www.digitalocean.com, checked 2026-10-22. See the methodology for how each number is collected.