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The Four Hidden Surcharges in Your GPU Bill

calendar_today July 6, 2026 person Haimantika Mitra domain digital-ocean

Your real-time inference bill runs about 60% higher than the GPU pricing page shows egress, idle time, the noisy-neighbor tax, and cold starts. Here’s how each is priced on one workload, and how DigitalOcean’s Dedicated Inference designs three of the four out.

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