NVIDIA H100 SXM — what a GPU-hour costs

As of October 23, 2026, the cheapest listed rate for the NVIDIA H100 SXM is $1.06 per GPU-hour on Google Cloud (spot, us-west2). The cheapest on-demand rate is $1.79 on Cudo Compute (no-kristiansand-1, GPU only). Across 38 providers, the median rate card — each provider’s cheapest on-demand rate, community capacity and marketplace floors out — is $3.52 per GPU-hour, and the middle half of those rate cards sits between $2.99 and $4.29. Between rate cards, on-demand rates for the same card run from $1.79 (Cudo Compute) to $11.06 (Microsoft Azure), 6.2× apart across 38 providers. By market, the cheapest listed rates are $1.06 spot (Google Cloud, GPU only), $2.69 on community capacity (RunPod), $1.79 on-demand (Cudo Compute, GPU only), $2.72 reserved with no stated term (Hyperstack, from), $1.80 on a 1-year commitment (Seeweb) and $1.79 on a 3-year commitment (Bitdeer AI, from). On a single rate card, Microsoft Azure (eastus) lists it at $11.06 on-demand, $7.08 on a 1-year commitment, $4.86 on a 3-year commitment and $2.04 spot: a commitment is paid whether the GPU runs or not, and spot capacity can be reclaimed mid-run. To buy, the median new-condition listing is $36,457.50 across 4 sellers. With 80 GB of VRAM, that is $0.022 per GB of memory per hour at the cheapest on-demand rate and $0.044 at the median.

The two cheapest on-demand rate cards for the NVIDIA H100 SXM, side by side on every card they both list: Cudo Compute vs Seeweb.

Dated pieces on the NVIDIA H100 SXM: October 14, 2026 — HPC-AI, Barrack, Trooper first read October 13, 2026: H100 SXM $2.20 · October 13, 2026 — FPT and Elice first read October 12, 2026: H100 SXM $2.99 and $3.57 · October 11, 2026 — Bitdeer first read October 10, 2026: GB200 $6.94, H100 SXM $2.36. Each is frozen as of its date.

As of October 23, 2026, 5 providers price the NVIDIA H100 SXM on-demand as a whole 8-GPU node (HGX, as CoreWeave, Crusoe, Nebius and Paperspace name it in their own listings): from $24.45 per node-hour (Gcore, 8×H100 SXM, Bare Metal GPU Clusters, $3.06 per GPU) to $88.49 (Microsoft Azure, Standard_ND96is_H100_v5, eastus, $11.06 per GPU), 3.6× apart. 8 GPUs at the cheapest on-demand rate ($1.79 on Cudo Compute, GPU only) come to $14.32 an hour, where a provider rents 8 to one account and they need not share a unit. A unit price is what the provider quotes for the 8 GPUs together; whether it also rents one is not part of the quote. 1 prices it in units of 2 — the rate table below names each quote's own unit.