Identify the right model for your use case by filtering available foundation models by capabilities and price.
Inference
Last verified 12 Oct 2026
Inference provides a single control plane for managing inference workflows. It includes a Model Catalog where you can view available foundation models, including both DigitalOcean-hosted and third-party commercial models, compare model capabilities and pricing, use routing to match inference requests to the best-fit model, and run inference using serverless or dedicated deployments.
Test and compare foundation models in the Model Playground.
Send API requests directly to foundation models without creating an AI agent or managing infrastructure.
Deploy open-source and commercial LLMs on dedicated GPUs as an inference endpoint.
Send requests to inference-router and let it pick the best model for each request.
Determine which model best fits your specific use case.
Batch Inference lets you run large collections of LLM requests as a single asynchronous job.
Use to build fully-managed AI agents with knowledge bases for retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent routing, guardrails, and more.
Latest Updates
26 October 2026
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The following OpenAI models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Inference as of 26 October 2026:
Migrate o1 and o3-mini to GPT-5.6 Sol (
openai-gpt-5.6-sol) and GPT Image 1 to GPT Image 2 (openai-gpt-image-2) to avoid service disruption. For information on our model deprecation policy and recommended replacement models, see Model Support Policy.
23 October 2026
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The following MiniMax model is now available in public preview on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference:
- MiniMax M3.1-Flash (Public Preview)
For more information, see the Available Models page.
21 October 2026
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The following DeepSeek model is now available on DigitalOcean Inference for serverless inference:
For more information, see the Available Models page.
For more information, see the full release notes.