AWS Bedrock vs DigitalOcean (Paperspace)
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: AWS Bedrock is cheaper on 0 of 6 shared models (input or output price), DigitalOcean (Paperspace) on 2.
AWS Bedrock
Claude, Llama, Mistral, Nova and more inside AWS with IAM, VPC and compliance controls. The default when your stack already lives on AWS.
- Enterprise IAM/VPC integration
- Multiple model families
- Provisioned throughput options
DigitalOcean (Paperspace)
GPU Droplets bring Paperspace's GPU lineup into DigitalOcean's developer-friendly cloud: H100s and L40S with predictable pricing, plus the broader DO ecosystem (storage, networking, managed databases)..
- Developer-friendly UX and docs
- Predictable pricing with reserved discounts
- Full cloud ecosystem around the GPUs
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | AWS Bedrock in/out | DigitalOcean (Paperspace) in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama3-8b-Instruct | $0.300 / $0.600 | $0.200 / $0.200 | DigitalOcean (Paperspace) |
| Llama3.3-70b | $0.720 / $0.720 | $0.650 / $0.650 | DigitalOcean (Paperspace) |
| Claude-3.5-Haiku | $0.800 / $4.00 | $0.800 / $4.00 | tie |
| Claude-3.7-Sonnet | $3.00 / $15.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 | tie |
| Claude-3.5-Sonnet | $3.00 / $15.00 | $3.00 / $15.00 | tie |
| Claude-3-Opus | $15.00 / $75.00 | $15.00 / $75.00 | tie |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.