DigitalOcean (Paperspace) vs Google Vertex AI
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: DigitalOcean (Paperspace) is cheaper on 2 of 5 shared models (input or output price), Google Vertex AI on 0.
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
Google Vertex AI
Gemini plus 100+ models in Google Cloud's ML platform, with enterprise governance, grounding and tuning pipelines..
- Enterprise governance
- Grounding with Google Search
- Model Garden variety
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | DigitalOcean (Paperspace) in/out | Google Vertex AI in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Nemo | $0.300 / $0.300 | $3.00 / $3.00 | DigitalOcean (Paperspace) |
| Claude-3.5-Haiku | $0.800 / $4.00 | $1.00 / $5.00 | DigitalOcean (Paperspace) |
| 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.