GradientAI Platform, Now Generally Available

Build production-ready AI agents using customizable tools or access multiple LLMs through a single endpoint. No infrastructure, no headaches—just fast, flexible AI under one developer-friendly platform.

All the tools to build AI agents in one place

Track every change, refine behavior, and ship confidently. Our integrated tools help you version, evaluate, and optimize agents, all without managing infrastructure.

Knowledges bases and external data integration (RAG)

Create custom knowledge bases or connect external data to power your agents with real-world context. Use built-in data connectors to pull files from AWS S3 and (coming soon) Google Drive and Dropbox--no complex setup required.

  • Import .pdf, .doc, .csv, and more
  • Support batch and incremental updates
  • Scalable and usage-based billing

Serverless Inference

Just need the models? We got you. Remove the complexity of integrating LLMs by letting us handle the hosting, key management, and invoicing. Instantly access models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and leading open-source providers—no setup, no scaling, and no multi-account headaches.

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Unified model access

Integrate models from leading providers with a single API key and fixed endpoint. No need to manage multiple accounts or services.

Data protection

Your data stays within DigitalOcean infrastructure when using open-source models. DigitalOcean will not use your prompts or payloads for model training or third-party analytics.

Fully managed and scalable

Skip infrastructure provisioning. Serverless inference scales automatically to meet your traffic, with no idle costs or capacity planning required.

Streamlined billing and monitoring

Track usage and costs across all models in one place. Predictable, usage-based pricing with no surprise overages or vendor sprawl.

Agent development lifecycle

From your first idea to full-scale deployment, our platform gives you the building blocks to create, power, and scale production-ready AI agents.

Start

Create agents with UI templates or SDKs

Spin up your first agent in minutes using guided no-code templates or dive in with full-code control using flexible SDKs.

Power

Add knowledge bases, data sources, and inference

Connect your own documents, URLs, APIs, or databases as context sources. Use serverless endpoints with models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and more, no infrastructure setup needed.

Test

Evaluate, compare, and monitor agent quality

Use built-in evaluation tools to test prompts, compare models, and help enable safe, accurate outputs. Review logs and traces to continuously improve agent behavior.

Deploy

Monitor, scale, and automate workflows

Deploy agents into production, integrate with your apps via APIs, and manage versions, safety, and performance at scale with full observability and automation support.

Getting started with DigitalOcean's GradientAI Platform was incredibly easy. We really appreciated the intuitive design... setting up and deploying our first agent took just like a few minutes. This allowed us to quickly implement AI capabilities without requiring extensive setup processes or even specialized expertise from our side. And that was truly a game changer for us.
Benedikt Klinglmayr

Benedikt Klinglmayr

Full Stack Developer, Autonoma

Build AI agents that solve real problems

From quick-start templates to production-scale workflows, GradientAI Platform supports agents that deliver value across industries and use cases.

Developer Productivity

  • Code generation

  • Code explanation

  • Debugging assistance

Customer support

  • External chatbots

  • Internal Q&A bots

  • Support ticket automation

Content

  • Content creation

  • Document summarization

  • SEO optimization

Business intelligence

  • Trend and market analysis

  • Report generation

  • Project planning

Risk and compliance

  • Fraud detection

  • Risk assessment

  • Compliance checks

Insights and analysis

  • Data exploration agents

  • KPI monitoring

  • Executive briefings

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DigitalOcean’s GradientAI Platform continues to evolve, offering developers more flexibility, smarter agents, and easier ways to build with AI. Check out this blog for the latest updates, in-depth tutorials, and helpful demos.

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Frequently asked questions

What is an AI agent?

This is a great question, and one that the industry is still figuring out how to answer. Agents sometimes seem synonymous with LLMs and conversational interfaces like ChatGPT. While others take a more strict definition, where an application must have “agency” in order to qualify as agent—i.e. the ability to act independently based on input from a non-human source. At DigitalOcean, we think of agents as more complicated than the LLM itself. It’s an application that is powered by an LLM but also incorporates stateful components like conversational memory and training on one or more data sources (a vector database, or “Knowledge Base”). It may have a human-like role or personality, and it may have a conversational interface, but it may not. We think of agency as a spectrum of autonomy ranging from simple rule-based responses to complex, goal-oriented, and self-improving behavior.

What can GradientAI Platform do for me?

GradientAI Platform simplifies the process of integrating the components of AI Agents and LLM applications, such as prompt management, prompt evaluations, data sources, 3rd-party tools, and conversational memory. Whether you just need simple LLM API calls or you’re building complex, stateful applications, GradientAI Platform makes the process significantly faster than working directly with the individual components. It gives you deep insight into agent performance. And it also simplifies account management and billing, with all costs coming to you on a single invoice, even if you switch LLM models. Plus, you don’t have to host anything yourself or bring your own API keys, like with similar frameworks.

How will I know how my agent is performing?

Visibility into agent performance is one of the key value propositions of GradientAI Platform. Think of our Agent Evaluations feature as the test suite in a traditional code project. It allows you to create a set of prompts (like unit tests), and run your agent against them after any change you make to its instructions, knowledge base, functions, routing, or LLM model. Our Traceability feature exposes the reasoning chain behind an output, including user inputs, model outputs, and function call results. If you don’t like the response to one of your test prompts, or you hit an error along the way, Traceability can help you identify the source of the problem. Assuming the agent has a user interface, you can also view feedback data from users who rate the agent’s responses. Conversation Logs (coming soon) allow you to dig into real user conversations to understand how agents are responding. And Citations help you locate which training data informed the agent’s responses.

How will my data be used by the AI?

At DigitalOcean, your data is never used to train our AI or systems, and it’s never sold or shared. If you select open-source models like Mistral, Llama, or DeepSeek, your data stays entirely within DigitalOcean’s infrastructure, and we store only what we need to power your agent or to provide you with troubleshooting features like Conversation Logs.

How do I interact with my agent?

You have several options for interacting with the agent at every phase of the Agent Development Lifecycle. Within the DigitalOcean console, it takes about two minutes to spin up an agent with an initial set of instructions. You can immediately start prompting the agent from the Agent Playground and make adjustments as necessary. For ongoing testing, Agent Evaluations provides real responses to a set of prompts or benchmarks that you define, and you can choose how often to run your evals. For integration with broader applications, your agent comes with its own API endpoint and endpoint access key. If you want the agent freely accessible to outside applications without your access key, you can set the endpoint status to “public”. Check out this example of integrating a GradientAI Platform agent with Telegram.

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