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DigitalOcean GPU Droplets vs Hyperstack

What each costs, whether there's a free plan, and what each is best for, from prices checked on their own sites.

DigitalOcean GPU Droplets and Hyperstack at a glance
Fact	DigitalOcean GPU Droplets	Hyperstack
From	$0.76/hr	$1.35/hr
Free plan	No · New-account credit; GPU use not confirmed	No · No
Best for	On-demand GPU Droplets (virtual machines) from DigitalOcean, which now includes Paperspace.	GPU cloud offering NVIDIA data-centre GPUs on demand and reserved.
Checked	Oct 17, 2026	Oct 17, 2026
Website	Visit	Visit

The difference in short

DigitalOcean GPU Droplets costs less to start: $0.76/hr against $1.35/hr for Hyperstack.
Neither has a free plan; you pay from the start.

DigitalOcean GPU Droplets plans and prices
Plan	Price	Specs / includes	Notes
HGX H200 141GB	$4.47/hr	H200 (HGX) · 24 vCPU · 240 GB RAM	Per GPU. 1 or 8 GPUs per Droplet. vCPU/RAM as listed for the Droplet (RAM 240 GiB). 720 GiB NVMe boot disk + 5 TiB NVMe scratch, 15,000 GiB transfer.
HGX H100 80GB	$4.41/hr	H100 (HGX) · 20 vCPU · 240 GB RAM	Per GPU. 1 or 8 GPUs per Droplet. Page says 'NVIDIA HGX H100' and does not say SXM explicitly. RAM 240 GiB.
L40S 48GB	$1.57/hr	8 vCPU · 64 GB RAM	1 GPU per Droplet. RAM 64 GiB, 500 GiB NVMe boot disk, 10,000 GiB transfer.
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB	$1.57/hr	8 vCPU · 64 GB RAM	1 GPU per Droplet. RAM 64 GiB.
RTX 4000 Ada 20GB	$0.76/hr	8 vCPU · 32 GB RAM	1 GPU per Droplet. RAM 32 GiB.
AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB	$2.59/hr	AMD MI300X · 20 vCPU · 240 GB RAM	AMD, not NVIDIA. Per GPU, 1 or 8 GPUs per Droplet. MI325X 256GB is $3.80/GPU/hr (20 vCPU, 164 GiB RAM).

Hyperstack plans and prices
Plan	Price	Specs / includes	Notes
H200 141GB SXM	$3.99/hr	H200 SXM · 22 vCPU · 225 GB RAM	Per GPU. vCPU and RAM are the page's 'Max pCPUs per GPU' and 'Max RAM per GPU' limits. Reservation from $2.79/hr.
H100 80GB SXM	$3.20/hr	H100 SXM · 24 vCPU · 240 GB RAM	Per GPU, max vCPU/RAM per GPU. Reservation from $2.72/hr. H100 NVLink 80GB is $2.60/hr on-demand (31 vCPU, 180 GB).
H100 80GB (PCIe)	$2.50/hr	H100 PCIe · 28 vCPU · 180 GB RAM	Pricing table row is labelled only 'NVIDIA H100'; Hyperstack's product list and spot table call it H100 PCIe, so PCIe is inferred. Max vCPU/RAM per GPU. Reservation from $1.75/hr.
A100 80GB (PCIe)	$1.35/hr	A100 PCIe · 28 vCPU · 120 GB RAM	Row labelled 'NVIDIA A100' (80GB); PCIe inferred from the NVLink and SXM variants being listed separately (A100 NVLink $1.40, A100 SXM $1.60). Reservation from $0.95/hr.
B200 192GB	$6/hr	31 vCPU · 256 GB RAM	Per GPU, max vCPU/RAM per GPU. Reservation from $5.10/hr. B300 288GB is $7.40/hr on-demand.
H100 PCIe Spot VM	$2/hr	80 GB VRAM	Spot VM price from the Spot table; interruptible. Other spot rates: RTX Pro 6000 SE $1.48, A100 $1.08, L40 $0.80, A6000 $0.40.

Cheapest first where the prices compare.

Which is cheaper, DigitalOcean GPU Droplets or Hyperstack?

DigitalOcean GPU Droplets costs less to start: $0.76/hr against $1.35/hr for Hyperstack. Prices checked Oct 17, 2026 on each company's own site.

Do DigitalOcean GPU Droplets and Hyperstack have a free plan?

DigitalOcean GPU Droplets: No free plan. New-account credit; GPU use not confirmed. Hyperstack: No, we found no free plan or trial for Hyperstack.

What else should I compare with DigitalOcean GPU Droplets and Hyperstack?

Other GPU cloud options we've checked: RunPod ($0.34/hr), TensorDock ($0.35/hr), Vast.ai ($0.49/hr), Modal ($1.10/hr).

Built from the prices and facts we checked on each company's own site. We haven't tested either hands-on.How we work