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Live per-GPU prices from DigitalOcean and Vast.ai, side by side. 3 GPU models are listed on both. Prices come from each provider’s own pricing data and refresh hourly where the provider has a pricing API.
TL;DR
Vast.ai is cheaper on 3 of the 3 GPU models both providers list. DigitalOcean lists 10 GPU models and Vast.ai lists 28.
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The cheapest current per-GPU rate on each provider. The lower price is highlighted. Spot rates are interruptible and shown underneath. Click a price to open the provider.
Methodology: Prices for DigitalOcean and Vast.ai are refreshed hourly and normalized to per-GPU USD/hr. No affiliate weighting. DigitalOcean prices come from its sizes API for GPU Droplets. Vast.ai figures come from its marketplace API and cover verified hosts only.
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The cheapest single GPU on each provider with enough memory to run the model at 4-bit quantization. Models that need several GPUs are left out.
| Model | VRAM at Q4 | DigitalOcean | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral 7B Instruct | 7 GB | $0.76/hrNVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada | $0.06/hrNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 |
| Gemma 4 E4B IT | 7 GB | $0.76/hrNVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada | $0.06/hrNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 |
| Qwen3.6 35B-A3B | 9 GB | $0.76/hrNVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada | $0.06/hrNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B | 9 GB | $0.76/hrNVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada | $0.06/hrNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B IT | 12 GB | $0.76/hrNVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada | $0.06/hrNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 14 GB | $0.76/hrNVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada | $0.09/hrNVIDIA Tesla V100 16GB |
| Gemma 4 12B | 33 GB | $1.57/hrNVIDIA L40S | $0.40/hrNVIDIA RTX A6000 |
| DeepSeek-R1 | 60 GB | $2.59/hrAMD Instinct MI300X | $0.44/hrNVIDIA A100 80GB SXM |
| DeepSeek-V3 | 60 GB | $2.59/hrAMD Instinct MI300X | $0.44/hrNVIDIA A100 80GB SXM |
| DeepSeek-V3.2 | 60 GB | $2.59/hrAMD Instinct MI300X | $0.44/hrNVIDIA A100 80GB SXM |
| Qwen3.6-27B | 73 GB | $2.59/hrAMD Instinct MI300X | $0.44/hrNVIDIA A100 80GB SXM |
| Gemma 4 31B IT | 82 GB | $2.59/hrAMD Instinct MI300X | $2.66/hrNVIDIA H100 NVL |
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Right now Vast.ai has the lower per-GPU rate on 3 of the 3 GPU models both providers list, and DigitalOcean on 0. Prices move every hour, so check the matrix above for the card you need.
Vast.ai lists the NVIDIA H100 SXM at $1.73 per GPU-hour (on-demand), against $4.41 on DigitalOcean. That is 61% less, or about $1,954 saved per month on a GPU that runs around the clock.
Right now DigitalOcean lists these GPU models that Vast.ai does not: AMD Instinct MI350X, AMD Instinct MI355X, NVIDIA B300, AMD Instinct MI325X, AMD Instinct MI300X, NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada, and NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada.
Right now Vast.ai lists these GPU models that DigitalOcean does not: NVIDIA B200, NVIDIA H200 NVL, NVIDIA H100 NVL, NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe, NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM, NVIDIA A40, NVIDIA L40, NVIDIA RTX A6000, NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
DigitalOcean has spot pricing on 3 GPU models and Vast.ai on 28. Spot instances are the cheapest way to rent but can be reclaimed at short notice, so use them for jobs that checkpoint and resume.
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Every hour for providers with a pricing API. GPU Mart has none, so its rate card is updated by hand. We normalize the GPU names and convert multi-GPU instances to a per-GPU rate so the two columns compare like for like.
Rates vary by region, host and availability. We show the cheapest per-GPU rate currently rentable on each provider. Marketplace hosts change their prices often, so the provider page may show a different default.
