DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean GPU Droplets are on-demand single- and 8-GPU VMs with per-second billing and fast (about one minute) provisioning.

GPU types

GPU type	VRAM	Architecture	GPUs available
`H100-80GB`	80 GB	NVIDIA Hopper	1 or 8

DigitalOcean sells fixed 1x and 8x droplet shapes only — a gpu_count of 2 or 4 is rejected at submit.

Submitting a job

job = client.training_jobs.create(
    base_model="Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct",
    dataset_id=dataset.id,
    method="sft_text",
    output_name="qwen-do-sft",
    gpu_type="H100-80GB",
    gpu_count=1,
    provider="digitalocean",
)

Notes

DigitalOcean also lists AMD MI300X droplets, but they are not yet enabled on Veri — a provider="digitalocean" submit with gpu_type="MI300X-192GB" returns a 400 listing the offered shapes. For AMD MI300X training today, use provider="hotaisle".

DigitalOcean GPU capacity fluctuates minute-to-minute. A submit that hits CAPACITY_UNAVAILABLE after retrying across regions is not billed — check veri gpu list --provider digitalocean and retry.

veri gpu list shows one AVAILABLE entry per region with current capacity, or a single UNAVAILABLE row when a shape has no capacity anywhere. This signal comes from DigitalOcean’s size catalog, which can lag real launch acceptance in both directions.

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