DigitalOcean Documentation

Release Note

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform is now DigitalOcean AI Platform.

Release Note

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:

Claude Opus 4.7

For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform:

Meta Llama 3.1 8B-Instruct
Mistral NeMo

Migrate to a supported active model to avoid service disruption. For information on our model deprecation policy and recommended replacement models, see Model Support Policy.

Release Note

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following client libraries for DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform are now available in the official DigitalOcean SDKs. You can use the SDKs to manage DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform resources, including knowledge bases and generative AI agents, and agent, serverless, and dedicated inference:

Release Note

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following Acree model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform for serverless inference and Agent Development Kit:

Trinity Large (Public Preview)

For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following OpenAI models are now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform for serverless inference and Agent Development Kit:

For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following NVIDIA model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and agents:

Nemotron-3-Super-120B (Public Preview)

For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

DigitalOcean AI Dedicated Inference Service is a managed LLM hosting service for optimized inference on dedicated GPUs, now available in public preview and enabled for all users. For more information, see Use Dedicated Inference.

Release Note

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following models are now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and creating agents:

GLM 5
Kimi K2.5
MiniMax M2.5 (Public Preview)

Release Note

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following OpenAI model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform for serverless inference and Agent Development Kit:

GPT-5.4

For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We now support prompt caching for the following OpenAI models in serverless inference chat completions and responses API:

GPT-5.3-Codex
GPT-5.2
GPT-5.2 pro
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
GPT-5
GPT-5 mini
GPT-5 nano
GPT-4.1
GPT-4o
GPT-4o mini
o1
o3
o3-mini
GPT-image-1

Release Note

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following Anthropic model is deprecated from DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform:

Claude 3 Opus

Migrate to a supported active model to avoid service disruption. For information on our model deprecation policy and recommended replacement models, see Model Support Policy.

Release Note

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following OpenAI models are now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform for serverless inference and Agent Development Kit:

GPT-5.3-Codex

For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You can now use reasoning with serverless inference chat completion. For more information, see Use Reasoning.

Release Note

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following Anthropic models are deprecated from DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform:

Migrate to a supported active model to avoid service disruption. For information on our model deprecation policy and recommended replacement models, see Model Support Policy.

Release Note

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

OpenAI and Anthropic commercial models now default to using DigitalOcean API keys when creating new agents. This allows you to have consolidated billing for all agent usage and no keys to manage on your own. If you want, you can bring your own keys when creating new agents or continue using your own keys for existing agents. For more information on pricing, see the pricing details.

Release Note

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following Anthropic model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and creating agents:

Claude Sonnet 4.6

For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Multimodal models for image and audio generation, provided by fal, are now in general availability. You can use these models for serverless inference. For examples of how to use these models, see Generate Image, Audio, or Text-to-Speech Using fal Models.

Release Note

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

End users and agent developers can now provide feedback on the quality and helpfulness of agent responses. The feedback is collected through the chatbot interface, agent playground, and log stream traces and stored in the traces. For more information, see Provide Agent Feedback and View Conversation Logs, Traces, and Insights.

Release Note

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following Anthropic and OpenAI models are now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform:

Haiku 4.5 for serverless inference, ADK, and agent creation
GPT-5.2 pro for serverless inference, ADK, and agent creation

Release Note

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We have enabled trace storage by default for both newly created and existing agents.

Release Note

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We now support prompt caching for the following Anthropic models:

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4
Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4

Using prompt caching with serverless inference chat completion significantly reduces the cost for inference.

Release Note

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following OpenAI models are now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform for serverless inference, Agent Development Kit, and creating agents:

For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The following models are now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform for serverless inference and Agent Development Kit:

Release Note

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Knowledge base chunking and retrieval are now in public preview. Chunking splits your documents into smaller units before indexing, and existing data sources default to section-based chunking.

Release Note

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The knowledge base creation experience has been enhanced and is in public preview. You can opt in from knowledge base enhancements feature preview.

Release Note

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform also now supports the Qwen3 Embedding 0.6B (Multilingual) model from Alibaba Qwen in public preview. Select this model for multilingual indexing workflows. Learn more on the embedding models page.

Release Note

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Agent Development Kit (ADK) is now available in public preview. For more information, see Use ADK to Build, Test, and Deploy Agents.

Release Note

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We support specifying a sitemap URL as a data source for your knowledge base. For more information, see Select Your Data Sources.

Release Note

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

New multimodal models for image and audio generation, provided by fal, are now available for serverless inference only. These models are in public preview.

Release Note

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can now use auto-indexing for knowledge bases. Auto-indexing keeps your knowledge base up-to-date by automatically re-indexing new and updated files from connected sources.

Release Note

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The OpenAI GPT-image-1 model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. See all available models.

Release Note

Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can now view activity logs for your knowledge bases in the DigitalOcean Control Panel. The Activity tab shows the 15 most recent indexing jobs, and includes details such as status, number of files or URLs processed, skipped, or failed, token usage, and charges. You can also download CSV files for more detailed debugging.

Release Note

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

GPT-5 mini model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

GPT-5 nano model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The OpenAI gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b models are available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. See all available models.

Release Note

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The OpenAI o1 model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. See all available models.

Release Note

Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The OpenAI GPT-5 model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. See all available models.

Release Note

Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

GPT-4.1 model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Claude Opus 4 model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Claude Sonnet 4 model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can now add a Dropbox folder as a data source to your knowledge bases. This allows you to index and use files stored in your Dropbox account within your knowledge base.

Release Note

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform now offers log stream insights, which provide data-driven recommendations to help improve agent efficiency and accuracy by analyzing your agent’s historical trace data. For details, see View Traces, Conversation Logs, and Insights.

Release Note

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The official DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform SDK is now in public preview. You can use the SDK to manage DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform resources, including knowledge bases and generative AI agents, from Python applications.

Release Note

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Alibaba Qwen3-32B model is now available for serverless inference on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. See all available models.

Release Note

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

As part of the DigitalOcean AI Agentic Cloud, GenAI Platform is now DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform.

Release Note

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Support for Amazon S3 buckets as data sources for DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform knowledge bases is now in public preview.

Release Note

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform is now in general availability.

Release Note

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

o3 model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Agent tracing and conversation logs are now in public preview for DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. This allows you to review how your agents process prompts, including input and output content, tool calls, knowledge base retrievals, and processing times.

Release Note

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Serverless inference is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. Serverless inference lets you to get direct responses from foundation models using a single API endpoint without creating an agent.

Release Note

Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can now view token usage and performance metrics for DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform agents.

Release Note

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can now rollback to a previous version of DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform agents.

Release Note

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can now create DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform agents from templates which have predefined agent instructions and foundation models.

Release Note

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can now view the knowledge bases, functions, and guardrails that DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform agents use to generate a response in the Agent Playground and the agent API.

Release Note

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can now view the runtime logs for agents on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. The logs display the events that occur during an agent’s execution, such as the knowledge bases and functions accessed to generate a response.

Release Note

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Claude Sonnet 3.7 model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. For more information, see the Available Models page.

Release Note

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can now use OpenAI models and test them in the Model Playground on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform.

Release Note

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We have raised the number of URLs that DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform’s web crawler data source can crawl from 1,000 to 5,500.

Release Note

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can now add a website as a data source for DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform knowledge bases.

Release Note

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We have restored access to the Sensitive Data Detection guardrail for DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform.

Release Note

Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can now use the DeepSeek-R1 model with agents on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform.

Release Note

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can now use Anthropic models with agents on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform.

Release Note

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You can add files from your local storage as data source for your knowledge base.

Release Note

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Sensitive Data Detection guardrail and its custom versions have been temporarily removed. To identify and anonymize sensitive data, add the following to your agent instructions:

Release Note

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform is in public preview.