Paperspace as cloud orchestrator - Per-hour billing, Gradient platform, auto-shutdown

Fetched 2026-10-04. Paperspace (now DigitalOcean) is a cloud orchestrator with the Gradient platform. Key structural facts: (1) Per-hour billing for compute. (2) Platform subscription tiers: Free ($0/month), Pro ($8/month), Growth ($39/month). Compute billed separately. (3) Auto-shutdown enforced: 12h limit on Free, configurable on Pro/Growth. (4) Dedicated GPU rates include vCPU+RAM: H100 $3.09/hr, A100-80G $1.15/hr, A4000 $0.76/hr, A6000 $1.89/hr, V100 $2.30/hr. (5) Multi-GPU types available for most instances. (6) Storage $0.29/GB overage. (7) Now owned by DigitalOcean, which may affect future pricing. Paperspace's A100-80G at $1.15/hr is one of the cheapest datacenter GPU rates published, but the 'A100-80G' naming is ambiguous (likely PCIe, not SXM). The auto-shutdown feature is a cost control mechanism that prevents runaway bills.