Question

Spawn GPU droplet via Python API: Size error

Posted on March 30, 2025
API Python AI/ML GPU Droplets
Asked by Ramin Assadollahi

I’m trying to spawn a GPU droplet via Python and the API, I’m trying to use the “Create via API” information given when configuring a GPU droplet on the website.

I tried

“size_id”: 288 (provided by the DO website when clicking “create via API”) and

“size:”: “gpu-h100x1-80gb” (provided by https://slugs.do-api.dev/ )

but both result in

“azure.core.exceptions.HttpResponseError: (None) You specified an invalid size for Droplet creation. Code: None”

Any idea what’s wrong?

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alexdo

Site Moderator

• March 31, 2025

Hello, @raminassadollahi

By default, only non-GPU Droplets are returned. To list only GPU Droplets, set the type query parameter to gpus. For example, /v2/droplets?type=gpus.

Check GPU Droplets

You can alos check our docs on how to create a droplet using the API

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/how-to/create/#create-a-droplet-using-automation

Regards

Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• April 2, 2025

Hey Ramin 👋

Which region are you trying to deploy the GPU Droplet in? Not all GPU sizes are available in every region, so that could be the issue.

If everything looks good and you’re still hitting the error, I’d suggest reaching out to support here: https://do.co/support, they can check the exact availability and help debug the API call.

- Bobby