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DigitalOcean vs Vultr: services, regions and GPUs
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Direct answer
Choosing between DigitalOcean and Vultr depends first on location, required services and GPU access. 3 documented capabilities are only available on DigitalOcean and 1 only on Vultr. Measured performance is covered on the benchmark pages.
Executive summary
DigitalOcean and Vultr document 20 and 18 of the same 26 criteria respectively, with 17 capabilities in common. DigitalOcean bills per-second and Vultr bills per-hour. DigitalOcean has no infrastructure in Türkiye; Vultr has no infrastructure in Türkiye. DigitalOcean offers H100, H200, L40S; Vultr offers H100, L40S.
Key findings
- 01 Capabilities documented only by DigitalOcean: Per-second or per-minute billing, Volume snapshots, NVIDIA H200 instances.
- 02 Capabilities documented only by Vultr: Dedicated / single-tenant resources.
Overview
| DigitalOcean | Vultr | |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | New York, United States | West Palm Beach, United States |
| Operator | DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. | The Constant Company, LLC |
| Regions | Regions in North America, Europe (Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London), Asia and Australia; none in Türkiye. | Cloud locations on six continents, including several in Europe; none in Türkiye. |
| Billing model | Per second — GPU Droplets are billed per second with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01, whichever is higher; powered-off GPU Droplets continue to bill until destroyed. | Per hour — Hourly billing. GPU plans bill on a 730-hour month (actual calendar hours); standard compute instances cap monthly billing at 672 hours. |
| Documented capabilities | 20 / 26 | 18 / 26 |
| Technologies | Kubernetes (DOKS), S3 API (Spaces), Terraform | Kubernetes (VKE), S3 API, Terraform |
Availability and regions
DigitalOcean
- Frankfurt fra1 Generally available
- Amsterdam ams3 Generally available
- London lon1 Generally available
Vultr
- Frankfurt fra Generally available
- Amsterdam ams Generally available
Features
| Criterion | DigitalOcean | Vultr |
|---|---|---|
| Data residency | ||
| Infrastructure located in Türkiye Generally available compute and storage capacity physically located in Türkiye (full region or local zone). | No | No |
| Compute & GPU | ||
| Virtual machine instances Self-service virtual machines with selectable CPU/RAM profiles. | Yes | Yes |
| Per-second or per-minute billing Standard compute billed at per-second or per-minute granularity rather than per started hour. | Yes Per-second (60 s / $0.01 minimum). | No Hourly billing. |
| Dedicated / single-tenant resources Dedicated hosts, bare metal or organisation-dedicated cloud capacity. | Partial Dedicated CPU Droplets; no single-tenant hosts. | Yes Bare Metal. |
| NVIDIA H100 instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. | Yes | Yes |
| NVIDIA H200 instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA H200 GPUs. | Yes | Unverified |
| NVIDIA L40S instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA L40S GPUs. | Yes | Yes |
| Platform & automation | ||
| API and Terraform automation Documented API plus an available Terraform provider for infrastructure as code. | Yes | Yes |
| Open-source cloud stack (OpenStack-based) The provider publicly states that its IaaS control plane is built on OpenStack or an equivalent open-source stack. | No | No |
| Kubernetes | ||
| Managed Kubernetes Provider-operated Kubernetes control plane. | Yes | Yes |
| Kubernetes node autoscaling Worker node count scales automatically within configured limits. | Yes | Yes |
| Kubernetes LoadBalancer integration Services of type LoadBalancer provision a provider load balancer automatically. | Yes | Yes |
| Kubernetes storage classes (CSI) Persistent volumes provisioned dynamically through a provider storage class. | Yes | Yes |
| Storage & data | ||
| Block storage volumes Persistent, attachable and expandable block volumes. | Yes | Yes |
| Volume snapshots Point-in-time snapshots of block volumes. | Yes | Unverified Instance snapshots are available; block-volume snapshots not assessed. |
| S3-compatible object storage Object storage reachable through the S3 API or an S3-compatible API. | Yes Spaces. | Yes |
| Managed backup service Scheduled backup and restore for instances or volumes managed by the provider. | Yes | Yes |
| Managed database Provider-operated relational database service. | Yes | Yes |
| Networking | ||
| L4 load balancer (TCP/UDP) Transport-layer load balancing. | Yes | Yes |
| L7 load balancer (HTTP/HTTPS) Application-layer load balancing with HTTP health checks. | Yes | Yes |
| Reassignable static public IP Static public addresses that can be moved between resources (Floating/Reserved/Elastic IP). | Yes Reserved IPs. | Yes Reserved IPs. |
| Private networks / VPC Isolated tenant networks with custom CIDR ranges. | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual router with NAT Managed router or NAT gateway for egress and inter-subnet routing, including static routes. | Unverified | Unverified |
| Security groups / cloud firewall Stateful, API-managed network access rules. | Yes Cloud Firewalls. | Yes Firewall groups. |
| Security & auditing | ||
| Control-plane audit logging A provider service that records management (API/console) operations against cloud resources. | Unverified | Unverified |
| User identity attribution in audit events Each audit event identifies the authenticated principal that performed the operation. | Unverified | Unverified |
Pricing and GPUs
| Provider | NVIDIA H100 | NVIDIA H200 | NVIDIA L40S | Türkiye infrastructure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | Generally available GPU Droplet — NVIDIA HGX H100 $4.410 / GPU-h 1× or 8× H100 80 GB; 1× plan with 20 vCPU and 240 GiB RAM. | Generally available GPU Droplet — NVIDIA HGX H200 $4.470 / GPU-h 1× or 8× H200 141 GB; 1× plan with 24 vCPU and 240 GiB RAM. | Generally available GPU Droplet — NVIDIA L40S $1.570 / GPU-h 1× L40S 48 GB with 8 vCPU and 64 GiB RAM. | No |
| Vultr | Generally available Cloud GPU — NVIDIA HGX H100 $2.300 / GPU-h 8× H100 80 GB SXM (640 GB GPU RAM, 216 vCPU, 1,914 GB RAM). | Unverified Not listed on the public pricing page H200 was not listed on the Vultr pricing page at the last review date. | Generally available Cloud GPU — NVIDIA L40S $1.671 / GPU-h 1, 2, 4 or 8× L40S 48 GB; 1× plan with 16 vCPU and 180 GB RAM. | No |
Prices are shown in the currency each provider publishes; no exchange-rate conversion is applied.
Benchmarks
Sources
- [1] Droplet Pricing (DigitalOcean Documentation) — DigitalOcean Official documentation accessed:
- [2] GPU Droplets Pricing — DigitalOcean Official documentation accessed:
- [3] Regional availability — DigitalOcean Official documentation accessed:
- [4] Vultr pricing — Vultr Official documentation accessed:
- [5] How are GPU products billed differently? — Vultr Official documentation accessed:
- [6] NVIDIA HGX H100 on Vultr — Vultr Official documentation accessed:
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