# Digital Ocean (Bronze) — ClusterMAX GPU Cloud Review

> Digital Ocean earns a ClusterMAX 2.0 Bronze rating from SemiAnalysis. Digital Ocean is another case of a traditional cloud provider attempting to get into the GPU game. However, with standard pricing of $3.44 per H200-hr, no slurm and no kubernetes, we expect it will be difficult for them to…

- **Provider**: Digital Ocean
- **ClusterMAX Tier**: Bronze
- **Tier definition**: Meets minimum criteria. Last category we directly recommend; often with inconsistent support or networking gaps.
- **Authors**: Jordan Nanos, Daniel Nishball, Dylan Patel (SemiAnalysis)
- **Published**: 2025-11-06 (Nov 06, 2025)
- **Last updated**: 2025-11-06 (Nov 06, 2025)
- **Source**: ClusterMAX 2.0
- **Canonical URL**: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/digitalocean
- **Source article**: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/clustermax-20-the-industry-standard
- **Topics**: Digital Ocean review, Digital Ocean GPU cloud, Digital Ocean ClusterMAX rating, Digital Ocean Bronze, Bronze tier GPU cloud, GPU cloud review, neocloud review, Digital Ocean H200, H200 cloud, Kubernetes, Slurm, ClusterMAX 2.0, SemiAnalysis

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Digital Ocean is another case of a traditional cloud provider attempting to get into the GPU game. However, with standard pricing of $3.44 per H200-hr, no slurm and no kubernetes, we expect it will be difficult for them to compete for business where the customers is not already locked into their ecosystem.

[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-See!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F87f4c53a-e6c3-4a3f-a990-607ebc7d5338_937x652.png)Trying to create a “GPU Droplet”

While we were unfortunately unable to create a GPU instance directly on the Digital Ocean console directly, we were able to access a machine via PaleBlueDot, a marketplace discussed later in this article. The single machine showed reasonable performance, but without the ability to create clusters, no shared storage or high performance networking, monitoring, or health checks in place, it is difficult for us to recommend using Digital Ocean GPUs for anything more than a bare minimum developer machine.

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Other Bronze tier providers:
- GMI: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/gmi
- STN: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/stn
- Prime Intellect: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/primeintellect
- Neysa: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/neysa
- Hyperstack/NexGen: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/hyperstacknexgen
- Atlas Cloud: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/atlascloud
- BuzzHPC: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/buzzhpc
- Shadeform: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/shadeform
- Runpod: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/runpod
- Verda/DataCrunch: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/verdadatacrunch
- IBM Cloud: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/ibmcloud
- Hot Aisle: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/hotaisle
- Vast.ai: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/vastai
- CUDO Compute: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/cudocompute
- Lightning.ai: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/lightningai
- Qubrid: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/qubrid
- Latitude.sh: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/latitudesh
- Denvr Dataworks: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/denvrdataworks

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