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DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud
Validated on 31 Jan 2025 • Last edited on 11 May 2026
Build, train, and deploy AI agents with the DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud:
GPU Droplets are VMs with GPUs in a single or 8 GPU configuration. We provide an AI/ML-ready image and 1-Click Models so you can get started without manual setup.
Bare Metal GPUs are dedicated, single-tenant servers with eight GPUs per machine. They can run as standalone servers or as part of multi-node clusters.
1-Click Models let you deploy third-party generative AI models on GPU Droplets with no additional setup or configuration.
Paperspace is a cloud-based machine learning platform that offers GPU-powered virtual machines and a Kubernetes-based container service.
Bare metal GPUs and GPU Droplets both provide GPU-based compute resources tailored to AI/ML workloads, but they’re each suited for different use cases. Learn more about the difference between bare metal GPUs and GPU Droplets.
Latest Updates
28 April 2026
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As part of the DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud, DigitalOcean AI Bare Metal GPUs is now Bare Metal GPUs.
31 March 2025
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AMD MI300X GPUs are now available for DigitalOcean Bare Metal GPUs.
20 March 2025
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NFS file shares for bare metal GPUs are now in private preview.
For more information, see the full release notes.