DigitalOcean GPU Droplets GPU pricing 2026
DigitalOcean integrated GPU compute into the Droplet control plane in 2024. H100 / H200 / MI300X options with a strong long-term-reserved pricing tier and the Paperspace/Gradient inheritance for ML tooling.
Published rate card
Per-GPU per-hour rates pulled from the vendor pricing page linked above, Last verified June 2026. Rates exclude storage, egress, and any managed-service uplift. Reserved-capacity contracts typically improve on these rates.
| GPU | Configuration | Per GPU per hour |
|---|---|---|
| H100 80GB | 12-month reserved, per-GPU on 8x | $1.990 |
| H100 80GB | On-demand, per-GPU on 8x | $4.890 |
| H200 80GB | 12-month reserved | $2.990 |
| A100 80GB | On-demand | $1.570 |
| L40S | On-demand | $1.570 |
Hidden costs to watch
- 1-year reservation is the path to the headline $1.99 H100 rate; on-demand is materially higher.
- Block storage, snapshots, and bandwidth metered separately.
- Capacity windows for H100 / H200 are constrained; provisioning lead time is a real planning factor.
What DigitalOcean GPU Droplets is best for
Existing DigitalOcean customers who want H100 / H200 access on the same control plane as their Droplets and managed databases.
See the GPU cloud buying guideWorked example
Acme Vision Co. (illustrative example, not a real company) needs to train a 10 billion-parameter vision-language model on a fixed 8-GPU cluster for 30 days at 18 hours per day duty cycle.
At DigitalOcean GPU Droplets's cheapest published rate of $1.99 per GPU-hour, the run costs $8,597 for raw GPU compute, before storage, egress, and MLOps overhead. Add the typical 25 percent year-one uplift and the modelled spend is $10,746. Use the calculator on the homepage to model your own GPU class, cluster size, and duty cycle.
Last verified June 2026. DigitalOcean GPU Droplets rates change frequently. Always obtain a vendor quote before purchase.
Visit DigitalOcean GPU Droplets pricing page