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DigitalOcean vs RunPod

DigitalOcean lists 174 server offers on ServerDB, RunPod 69. Compare prices per server type, locations, network and features side by side.

DigitalOcean is ahead in 4 categories, RunPod in 4. Which one fits depends on the server type and location you need.

Metric	DigitalOcean	RunPod
Offers	174	69
Countries	8	12
Cities	1	6
Cheapest VPS (per month)	$4.00	–
Cheapest GPU server (per month)	$565	$87.60
Fastest uplink	10 Gbit/s	–
Offers with unmetered traffic	0%	0%
Offers with hourly billing	6%	100%
Offers with NVMe storage	55%	0%
Offers with DDoS protection	0%	0%

Cheapest prices of the offers currently listed on ServerDB. Amounts in other currencies are converted (≈).

Prices in USD. Offers priced in other currencies are converted at the ECB rate of Oct 23, 2026 and rounded (≈).

Cheapest VPS

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

Basic 512MB

1 core512 MB RAM10 GB2 Gbit/s

New York $4.00/mo

DigitalOcean

Basic 1GB

1 core1 GB RAM25 GB2 Gbit/s

New York $6.00/mo

DigitalOcean

Basic 1GB Premium Intel

1 core1 GB RAM25 GB2 Gbit/s

New York $7.00/mo

RunPod

No offers of this type.

Cheapest GPU servers

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean

GPU Droplet NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada Generation 1x

8 cores32 GB RAM500 GB10 Gbit/s

New York $565.44/mo

DigitalOcean

GPU Droplet NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation 1x

8 cores64 GB RAM500 GB10 Gbit/s

New York $1,168.08/mo

DigitalOcean

GPU Droplet NVIDIA L40S 1x

8 cores64 GB RAM500 GB10 Gbit/s

New York $1,168.08/mo

RunPod

RunPod

1x RTX A2000 (Community Cloud)

RunPod

1x RTX 3070 (Community Cloud)

RunPod

1x RTX A5000 (Community Cloud)

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