Available Foundation and Embedding Models for DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform
Validated on 7 Jun 2025 • Last edited on 15 Aug 2025
DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform lets you build fully-managed AI agents with knowledge bases for retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent routing, guardrails, and more, or use serverless inference to make direct requests to popular foundation models.
The following foundation and embedding models are available for Gradient AI Platform. For pricing, see Gradient AI Platform’s pricing page.
Foundation Models
A foundation model is a large-scale model pre-trained on a large corpus of data and adaptable to various tasks. We offer the following foundation models:
| Provider | Model ID | Model and Version | Source Availability | Parameters | Max Tokens |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | anthropic-claude-3.7-sonnet |
Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Proprietary | Not published | 1,024 |
| Anthropic | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Proprietary | Not published | 1,024 | |
| Anthropic | anthropic-claude-3.5-haiku |
Claude 3.5 Haiku | Proprietary | Not published | 1,024 |
| Anthropic | anthropic-claude-3-opus |
Claude 3 Opus | Proprietary | Not published | 1,024 |
| DeepSeek | deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b |
DeepSeek-R1 distill-llama-70B | Open source | 70 billion | 8,000 |
| Meta | llama3.3-70b-instruct |
Llama 3.3 Instruct-70B | Open source | 70 billion | 2,048 |
| Meta | LLama 3.1 Instruct-70B | Open source | 70 billion | 2,048 | |
| Meta | llama3-8b-instruct |
LLama 3.1 Instruct-8B | Open source | 8 billion | 512 |
| Mistral | mistral-nemo-instruct-2407 |
NeMo | Open source | 12 billion | 512 |
| OpenAI | openai-gpt-4o |
GPT-4o | Proprietary | Not published | 16,384 |
| OpenAI | openai-gpt-4o-mini |
GPT-4o mini | Proprietary | Not published | 16,384 |
| OpenAI | openai-gpt-5 |
GPT-5 | Proprietary | Not Published | 128,000 |
| OpenAI | openai-o1 |
o1 | Proprietary | Not published | 100,000 |
| OpenAI | openai-o3-mini |
03-mini | Proprietary | Not published | 100,000 |
When using serverless inference, you can specify a model using its model ID. You can also experiment with models in the Model Playground.
Access to proprietary models are determined by your API keys with those providers, like your Anthropic API key or OpenAI API key.
Embedding Models
An embedding model converts data into vector embeddings. Gradient AI Platform stores vector embeddings in an OpenSearch database cluster for use with agent knowledge bases. We offer the following embedding models:
| Provider | Type | Model and Version | Parameters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tongyi Lab, Alibaba | General text embeddings (GTE) | Alibaba-NLP/gte-large-en-v1.5 | 434 million |
| UKP Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt | Sentence Transformer (SBERT) | sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 | 22.7 million |
| UKP Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt | Sentence Transformer (SBERT) | sentence-transformers/multi-qa-mpnet-base-dot-v1 | 109 million |