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Paperspace

DigitalOcean-owned GPU VM and ML platform (Machines, Gradient Notebooks, Deployments) with hourly-billed NVIDIA GPUs from Quadro M4000 to H100 in three datacenters.

GPU types13with a current offer

Current offers4343 readings on file · last 45 days

H100 from$3.09per GPU-hour, on-demand

Entry price$0.76cheapest GPU-hour listed

Countries23 named regions

Trust Score v0.1

61/100

Company & track record73
Infrastructure control100
Pricing & billing transparency100
Reliability signals30
Security & compliance0
Customer signal—

Scored Sep 29, 2026 from the provider's own pages. Dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominator. Criteria ↓

43 current offers →paperspace.com ↗

Trust Score · 5 of 6 dimensions measured

The score, criterion by criterion

Each point comes from something the provider publishes, with the page it was read on and the date. Anything not disclosed earns zero.

Company & track record

weight 15%

73 / 100

Founding year published	not discloseddocs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	0 / 4
Headquarters published	Paperspace dba DigitalOceandocs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	3 / 3
Legal entity named	Paperspace dba DigitalOceandocs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	4 / 4
Funding or ownership disclosed	Part of DigitalOcean ("Paperspace is now part of DigitalOcean")docs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	4 / 4

Infrastructure control

weight 15%

100 / 100

Capacity model published	operates or rents dedicated capacitydocs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	10 / 10
Regions published	3 regions or countriesdocs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	5 / 5

Pricing & billing transparency

weight 20%

100 / 100

Public prices without an account	yes (read on the pricing page)docs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	5 / 5
Billing granularity published	per hourdocs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	4 / 4
Egress policy published	includeddocs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	4 / 4
Stopped-instance billing published	Compute billing stops when powered off; attached storage, public IP addresses and other add-ons keep billing hourly until destroyed.docs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	4 / 4
Public IPv4 policy published	extra: 0.0045 USD/h, max 3.00 USD/month per public IP (no IPv6)docs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	3 / 3

Reliability signals

weight 20%

30 / 100

Status page	https://status.paperspace.com/docs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	6 / 6
SLA published	not discloseddocs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	0 / 6
SLA with a numeric uptime commitment	not discloseddocs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	0 / 3
Uptime history published	not discloseddocs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	0 / 5
Observed availability (30 days)	not measured yet	—

Security & compliance

weight 15%

0 / 100

SOC 2	not discloseddocs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	0 / 8
ISO 27001	not discloseddocs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	0 / 4
HIPAA or GDPR DPA	not discloseddocs.digitalocean.com · Sep 29, 2026	0 / 3

Customer signal

weight 15%

not measured

Aggregated public reviews

not collected yet

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provisional v0.1: evidence from the provider's own pages; dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominatorFull method →

Prices by GPU · 6 GPU types with a current offer

What Paperspace charges, against the market

Cheapest current on-demand true cost here, next to the market median for the same GPU. Negative means cheaper than the market.

GPU	Cheapest here	Market median	vs market	Current offers	Modes
H100	$3.09	$3.17	−2%	1	on-demand	H100 prices
A100 80GB	$2.24	$1.99	+13%	2	on-demandreserved	A100 80GB prices
RTX A6000	$1.89	$0.54	+250%	1	on-demand	RTX A6000 prices
Tesla V100 16GB	$2.30	$1.71	+35%	1	on-demand	Tesla V100 16GB prices
RTX A4000	$0.76	$0.19	+311%	1	on-demand	RTX A4000 prices
RTX A5000	$1.38	$0.27	+415%	1	on-demand	RTX A5000 prices

All offers · 43 readings on file

Every Paperspace offer, with its receipt

Current offers (last 45 days) ranked by true cost, all rental modes, each with its read date. Older readings stay listed below, in grey.

GPU	Configuration	Mode	Region	Stock	List	True cost	Read
RTX A4000outlier · suspended	1× RTX A4000	On-demand	—	Stock unknown	$0.76	$0.76	21:35 UTCfresh	Receipt
A100 80GB	1× A100 80GB	Reserved	—	Stock unknown	$1.15	$1.15	21:35 UTCfresh	Receipt
RTX A5000outlier · suspended	1× RTX A5000	On-demand	—	Stock unknown	$1.38	$1.38	21:35 UTCfresh	Receipt
RTX A6000outlier · suspended	1× RTX A6000	On-demand	—	Stock unknown	$1.89	$1.89	21:35 UTCfresh	Receipt
A100 80GB	1× A100 80GB	On-demand	—	Stock unknown	$2.24	$2.24	21:35 UTCfresh	Receipt
Tesla V100 16GB	1× Tesla V100 16GB	On-demand	—	Stock unknown	$2.30	$2.30	21:35 UTCfresh	Receipt
H100SXM	1× H100 SXM	On-demand	—	Stock unknown	$3.09	$3.09	21:35 UTCfresh	Receipt

7 fresh offers · prices per GPU-hour · true cost includes the add-ons the provider publishesOpen in the comparison tool →

True cost & billing · read Sep 29, 2026

What the hourly price does not say

Billing granularity, minimums, what a stopped machine costs, traffic, addresses, deposits and identity checks, as published by the provider.

Billing

Billing granularity: per hour
Minimum charge: not published
Stopped instance: Compute billing stops when powered off; attached storage, public IP addresses and other add-ons keep billing hourly until destroyed.
Egress: included
Public IPv4: extra: 0.0045 USD/h, max 3.00 USD/month per public IP (no IPv6)
Billing model: postpaid invoice
Minimum deposit: not published
Free credits: No sign-up credit published. Gradient Free plan (0 USD) gives free Notebook machines (Free CPU C4, Free GPU M4000); Pro (8 USD/month) adds free P4000/P5000/RTX4000/RTX5000/A4000; Growth (39 USD/month) adds free A5000/A6000/A100-80G; availability-based, Notebooks only.

Account

Payment: card · invoice · crypto (not published (Paperspace pricing FAQ lists Stripe card payments only; crypto wallets appear only in the separate DigitalOcean billing docs for DigitalOcean teams))
Sign-up: email, password (or DigitalOcean, GitHub or Google sign-in), approval request for high-end machine types such as H100 (1-2 business days; additional information may be requested), account verification may be requested when creating Core machines
Identity check: not published
Support: ticket, community forum
Enterprise support: not published
SLA: not published
Status page: status.paperspace.com ↗
Published uptime: not published

Infrastructure

Regions: 3 named regions in 2 countries
NY2 (United States) · CA1 (United States) · AMS1 (Netherlands)
Countries: United States, Netherlands
Platform: API, CLI, Jupyter, SSH, custom Docker images, persistent volumes, snapshotsSDK: Core JavaScript SDK (API-key docs); Gradient CLI/SDKInterconnect: NVLink on H100x8 (3.2 Tb/s GPU interconnect listed), A100-80Gx8 and V100-32G multi-GPU; H100 machines have 4x100 GigE private links
Storage: volume · 50 GB 0.0074 USD/h (max 5.00 USD/month); 100 GB max 7.00; 250 GB max 10.00; 500 GB max 25.00; 1 TB max 55.00; 2 TB max 120.00 USD/month · Block storage, 50 GB to 2 TB, cannot be shrunk; 128 MiB/s throughput limit.network · 250 GB max 16.00 USD/month; 1 TB max 65.00; 16 TB max 1040.00; 80 TB max 5200.00 USD/month · Shared drives inside a private network; 50 MB/s per TB baseline.object · Snapshots 50 GB max 1.00 to 2 TB max 8.00 USD/month; custom templates 50 GB max 3.50 to 2 TB max 42.00 USD/month · Image storage (snapshots, custom templates).volume · 0.29 USD/GB-month over plan allowance · Gradient persistent storage overage; included 5 GB Free, 15 GB Pro, 50 GB Growth.
Migration out: Machines are standard Linux VMs: copy data over SSH/rsync (egress is free) or through shared drives; snapshots and custom templates are region-specific and no image export is documented; Notebooks and Deployments use container images that can run elsewhere.

Security & compliance

SOC 2: not published
ISO 27001: not published
HIPAA: not published
GDPR / DPA: not published
Other: Security page states data is stored in colocation data centers accredited ISO 27001, SOC 1, SOC 2/SSAE 16/ISAE 3402, PCI Level 1, FISMA Moderate, SOX (facility level, not a Paperspace report); SAML SSO for teams, 2FA.
Legal entity: Paperspace dba DigitalOcean
Funding: Part of DigitalOcean ("Paperspace is now part of DigitalOcean")

Read on the provider's own pages · 16 pages read · facts marked "not published" were looked for and not foundPages read ↓

Assessment · documents read Sep 29, 2026

Paperspace, in short

What stood out when we read the documents: strengths, weaknesses, who it suits, and what we could not find.

Strengths

Free unlimited ingress and egress bandwidth on Machines.
Compute billing stops when a machine is powered off; storage and IP have monthly caps (e.g. 50 GB disk max 5.00 USD/month).
H100 3-year commitment at 2.24 USD/GPU-hour and A100-80G at 1.15 USD/GPU-hour published on paperspace.com/pricing.
Gradient plans (8 or 39 USD/month) include free-tier Notebook GPUs up to A100-80G, subject to availability.
Low entry prices on legacy cards, from 0.45 USD/h (Quadro M4000).
Private networks, site-to-site IPSec VPN, shared drives up to 80 TB, scheduled snapshots.

Weaknesses

H100 on demand is 5.95 USD/GPU-hour, only in NY2 and only after an approval request (1-2 business days).
No H200, B200, L40S, RTX 4090/5090 or AMD GPUs; most models are Pascal, Turing and Ampere workstation cards.
Billing is per hour per the docs, although the homepage advertises per-second billing.
No IPv6; public throughput capped at 900 Mbps outside NY2 and rate-limited to 200 Mbps after 10 s above 1 Gbps.
API/CLI cannot mount shared drives, create VPNs, toggle auto-shutdown or set auto-snapshots on existing machines.
No refunds (pricing FAQ) and no Paperspace SLA on the DigitalOcean SLA page.
Published pricing pages disagree ("x8" multi-GPU totals equal 4 x single price; H100 cards show A100 specs).

Ideal for

Existing Paperspace/Gradient users running notebooks on older or mid-range NVIDIA GPUs
Individuals wanting free-tier Notebook GPUs bundled in a low monthly plan
Buyers willing to sign a 3-year H100 or A100-80G commitment in New York

Not published

PayPal or crypto payment for the Paperspace console is not published (FAQ lists Stripe cards
custom invoicing on business plans).
Minimum charge, minimum deposit and sign-up credit not published.
Identity documents: docs mention account verification and approval requests for H100 but do not say what is checked.
City of the NY2 and CA1 datacenters not published on the pages read.
Per-GPU price of the "A6000 x8" and "V100-32G x8" rows is ambiguous (totals equal 4 x single price).
Meaning of the 3.09 USD/h figure on the H100 card and of the H100 monthly price (1994 USD/month with A100 specs) on paperspace.com/pricing.
Terraform provider, managed Kubernetes and uptime figures not documented on the pages read.
Company HQ, founding year and funding not read on a primary page today.
No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 report for Paperspace itself
only data-center-level certifications are claimed.

Observations

paperspace.com/pricing opens on the Gradient Plans tab (Free 0, Pro 8, Growth 39 USD/month); GPU hourly prices sit in a hidden Compute tab.

The Compute tab shows H100 at 2.24 USD/h with an asterisk (3-year commitment) and a footnote saying on-demand H100 is 5.95 USD/h "under our special promo price".

The H100 card also contains a 3.09 USD/h figure labelled with A100 specs; the monthly H100 card shows 1994 USD/month with A100 specs.

The pricing page still lists retired NVIDIA GRID desktops (Air, Standard, Advanced, Pro) and Windows-licensed machines.

Every page carries a "Paperspace is now part of DigitalOcean" banner; the authoritative price table is in DigitalOcean docs (last updated 2026-07-13).

Pages read

docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/pricing/ — On-demand GPU and multi-GPU prices, billing model, storage, networking, Gradient plans
paperspace.com/pricing — 3-year commitment prices, monthly dedicated prices, promo note, payment methods, billing date, refunds
docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/machines/details/machine-types/ — GPU specs, VRAM, vCPU/RAM, multi-GPU variants, SXM types, NVLink
docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/machines/details/availability/ — Regions per GPU
docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/machines/details/h100/ — H100 region, approval, NVLink, networking
docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/machines/details/features/ — Networking, storage types, templates, auto-shutdown
docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/machines/details/limits/ — H100 approval, rate limits, API/CLI limits, no IPv6
docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/accounts-and-teams/ — Verification note, SSO, 2FA, team roles
docs.digitalocean.com/reference/paperspace/ — API, pspace CLI, SDK
docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/ — Products, API changes, Windows retirement
docs.digitalocean.com/support/paperspace/ — Support levels
paperspace.com/security — Compliance claims
status.paperspace.com/ — Status page, NY2/CA1/AMS1 labels
digitalocean.com/sla — No Paperspace SLA listed
console.paperspace.com/signup — Sign-up methods
paperspace.com/ — Ownership, per-second billing claim

Questions about Paperspace

What GPUs does Paperspace offer?

Paperspace has 13 GPU types with a fresh offer today, for example H100 from $3.09, A100 80GB from $2.24, RTX A6000 from $1.89, Tesla V100 16GB from $2.30, RTX A4000 from $0.76, RTX A5000 from $1.38 per GPU-hour on-demand. The full list with prices and market medians is on this page.

How does Paperspace bill?

Billing granularity: per hour. Stopped instance: Compute billing stops when powered off; attached storage, public IP addresses and other add-ons keep billing hourly until destroyed.

How trustworthy is Paperspace?

Its Trust Score is 61/100 (v0.1), read from its own documents. Strong on infrastructure control, pricing & billing transparency. Weaker on reliability signals, security & compliance. The score measures transparency and published guarantees, not customer satisfaction; every criterion and its source is listed above.

Where are Paperspace's data centres?

3 named regions in 2 countries: United States, Netherlands.

How do you pay Paperspace, and are there credits?

Payment by card, invoice, crypto. Free credits: No sign-up credit published. Gradient Free plan (0 USD) gives free Notebook machines (Free CPU C4, Free GPU M4000); Pro (8 USD/month) adds free P4000/P5000/RTX4000/RTX5000/A4000; Growth (39 USD/month) adds free A5000/A6000/A100-80G; availability-based, Notebooks only..