DigitalOcean Inference Engine
DigitalOcean's managed inference: serverless LLM and image APIs, dedicated GPU endpoints and batch jobs
DigitalOcean Inference Engine is DigitalOcean's managed inference service. It offers serverless per-token APIs, dedicated GPU endpoints billed by the hour, batch jobs and a router that picks a model per request. Serverless covers OpenAI and Anthropic models plus open-weight models such as gpt-oss. Image models served through fal draw from the same prepaid balance.
Open models start at $0.05 per 1M input tokens (gpt-oss-20b). FLUX Schnell images cost $0.003 per megapixel. Dedicated endpoints start at $2.59 an hour on an AMD MI300X.
Pricing: Per token usage
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DigitalOcean Inference Engine prices by model
Per 1M tokens, read off DigitalOcean Inference Engine's own pricing page on the date shown.
| Model | Input / 1M | Cached / 1M | Output / 1M | Checked | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss-120b | $0.10 | โ | $0.70 | 11 Oct 2026 | |
| gpt-oss-20b | $0.05 | โ | $0.45 | 11 Oct 2026 |
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