AI and Machine Learning at DigitalOcean

Whether you’re training large models, running inference, or creating AI-driven applications, DigitalOcean has the infrastructure and platform to enable you to build, deploy, and scale with ease.

Power your AI/ML workloads from development to production

Run model training, fine-tuning, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.

Your needs:
  • Virtualized environment for scalability and cost-efficiency.

    Start with: GPU Droplets

  • Containerized environment requiring flexibility and resilience of Kubernetes to run and scale.

    Start with: GPUs for DOKS

  • Single tenant and direct hardware access with high-touch engineering support to manage complex multi-node deployments.

    Start with: Bare Metal

Hear from businesses who use DigitalOcean to power their AI/ML tasks

Getting started with DigitalOcean's GenAI was incredibly easy. We really appreciated the intuitive design... setting up and deploying our first agent took just like a few minutes. This allowed us to quickly implement AI capabilities without requiring extensive setup processes or even specialized expertise from our side. And that was truly a game changer for us.
Benedikt Klinglmayr

Benedikt Klinglmayr

Full Stack Developer, Autonoma

Training our next-generation text-to-video model with millions of video inputs on NVIDIA H100 GPUS on DigitalOcean took us just 3 days, enabling us to get a newer version of our model much faster than before.
Naeem Ahmed

Naeem Ahmed

Founder, Moonvalley AI

AI/ML Resources

Choosing the Right DigitalOcean Offering for Your AI/ML Workload

Learn more about choosing the Right DigitalOcean Offering for Your AI/ML Workload

Choosing the Right GPU Droplet for Your AI/ML Workload

Learn more about choosing the Right GPU Droplet for Your AI/ML Workload

Run BAGEL VLM on a DigtialOcean GPU Droplet

Learn more about running BAGEL VLM on a DigtialOcean GPU Droplet

How to run Deepseek R1 LLMs on GPU Droplets

Learn more about how to run Deepseek R1 LLMs on GPU Droplets

Devstral: An Open-Source Agentic LLM for Software Engineering

Learn more about Devstral, an Open-Source Agentic LLM for Software Engineering

uv: The Fastest Python Package Manager

Learn more about uv, the Fastest Python Package Manager

See how easy it is to spin up a GPU Droplet

Scale with simplicity leveraging DigitalOcean's AI/ML tools

When building robust machine learning infrastructure for AI app development, choosing the right GPU solution is crucial. DigitalOcean's range from GPU virtual machines (VMs) to bare metal servers and specialized generative AI platforms, each offering unique advantages, built with DigitalOcean's signature simplicity in mind. GPU Droplets provide flexibility and scalability, ideal for AI developers who need on demand GPU compute, while Bare Metal cloud servers offer flexible configuration, making them a top choice for intensive workloads such as large-scale ML training.

Looking to get started with AI app development? DigitalOcean provides AI developers with a large library of tutorials on a range of topics—from articles on Jupyter Notebook setup, to getting started with Llama, and using the LLM CLI to deploy the GPT-4o model.

Rent GPU Droplets for LLM starting at $1.99/GPU/hour*

Experience affordable, high-performance AI infrastructure designed for developers and startups with DigitalOcean GPU Droplets.

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*Based on multi-month contractual commitment.

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