DataCrunch vs DigitalOcean
- GPUs
- 11 9
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.65/hr $0.76/hr
- Price wins
- 4/5 1/5
DataCrunch is cheaper on 4 of the 5 GPUs both rent, DigitalOcean on 1. DataCrunch carries 2 more GPUs.
GPU cloud renting on-demand instances and dedicated clusters by the hour from datacenters in Europe.
Best for: On-demand instances and dedicated clusters
Developer cloud that rents GPU Droplets and managed AI services, billed by usage alongside its standard virtual machines.
Best for: Simple GPU VMs for small teams
Price by GPU
The 5 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | DataCrunch | DigitalOcean | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB | $8.62/hr | $11.19/hr | 30% |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.63/hr | $4.41/hr | 22% |
| NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB | $4.73/hr | $4.47/hr | 6% |
| NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB | $1.17/hr | $1.57/hr | 34% |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | $1.54/hr | $1.57/hr | 2% |
Prices last checked: DataCrunch 1 Oct 2026, DigitalOcean 1 Oct 2026.
Only on one side
Only on DataCrunch 6
Company facts
| Fact | DataCrunch | DigitalOcean |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  Helsinki, Finland |  Broomfield, CO |
| Type | GPU cloud | GPU cloud |
| GPUs priced | 11 | 9 |
| Fastest GPU | NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 GPU 288GB | AMD Instinct MI350X OAM |
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Questions
- What is the difference between DataCrunch and DigitalOcean?
- DataCrunch: GPU cloud renting on-demand instances and dedicated clusters by the hour from datacenters in Europe. DigitalOcean: Developer cloud that rents GPU Droplets and managed AI services, billed by usage alongside its standard virtual machines.
- Is DataCrunch cheaper than DigitalOcean?
- DataCrunch is cheaper on 4 of the 5 GPUs both rent, DigitalOcean on 1. DataCrunch carries 2 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB cost on DataCrunch and DigitalOcean?
- DataCrunch charges $8.62 per GPU-hour and DigitalOcean charges $11.19 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both DataCrunch and DigitalOcean?
- 5 GPUs, including NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB, NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB, NVIDIA L40S 48GB.
- How are these prices compared?
- Each figure is the cheapest live rate per GPU-hour for that GPU. We use on-demand pricing where a provider sells it and fall back to community or reserved terms, labelled, where that is all they sell. Spot capacity is left out because it can be reclaimed. Rates are refreshed by our daily ingest.
How we define a live price: methodology.
