DigitalOcean vs Hot Aisle
- GPUs
- 9 1
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.76/hr $2.99/hr
- Price wins
- 1/1 0/1
DigitalOcean is cheaper on the one GPU both rent. DigitalOcean carries 8 more GPUs.
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
Rents AMD GPU virtual machines and bare metal nodes and clusters, billed by the minute with no commitments.
Best for: AMD GPU inference and bare metal
Price by GPU
The 1 GPU both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | DigitalOcean | Hot Aisle | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB | $2.59/hr | $2.99/hr | 15% |
Prices last checked: DigitalOcean 4 Oct 2026, Hot Aisle 4 Oct 2026.
Only on one side
Only on DigitalOcean 8
Only on Hot Aisle 0
Every GPU Hot Aisle rents is also on the other side.
Company facts
| Fact | DigitalOcean | Hot Aisle |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  Broomfield, CO | Grand Rapids, MI |
| Type | GPU cloud | GPU cloud |
| Founded | n/a | 2023 |
| GPUs priced | 9 | 1 |
| Fastest GPU | AMD Instinct MI350X OAM | AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB |
| Services | n/a | On-demand AMD GPU virtual machines, dedicated bare-metal nodes, bare-metal clusters |
| Pricing models | n/a | Usage-based per minute via Stripe, no commitments |
Compliance
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Questions
- What is the difference between DigitalOcean and Hot Aisle?
- DigitalOcean: Developer cloud that rents GPU Droplets and managed AI services, billed by usage alongside its standard virtual machines. Hot Aisle: Rents AMD GPU virtual machines and bare metal nodes and clusters, billed by the minute with no commitments.
- Is DigitalOcean cheaper than Hot Aisle?
- DigitalOcean is cheaper on the one GPU both rent. DigitalOcean carries 8 more GPUs.
- How much does a AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB cost on DigitalOcean and Hot Aisle?
- DigitalOcean charges $2.59 per GPU-hour and Hot Aisle charges $2.99 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both DigitalOcean and Hot Aisle?
- 1 GPU, including AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB.
- 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.
