NVIDIA A100 80GB vs NVIDIA H100 SXM
What each costs to rent by the hour across the providers we track — NVIDIA A100 80GB on 59 providers, NVIDIA H100 SXM on 39.
As of , the NVIDIA H100 SXM has a median rate card of $3.52 per GPU-hour versus $2.00 for the NVIDIA A100 80GB — $1.52 (43%) more.
Side by side
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | NVIDIA H100 SXM | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ampere | Hopper |
| VRAM | 80 GB | 80 GB |
| Form factor | SXM | SXM |
| Median rate card, per GPU-hour | $2.00 | $3.52 |
| Cheapest listed rate | $0.40 Google Cloud, spot, GPU only captured | $1.06 Google Cloud, spot, GPU only captured |
| Median per GB of VRAM, per hour | $0.025 | $0.044 |
| Providers listing it | 59 | 39 |
Providers that list both
| Provider | NVIDIA A100 80GB | NVIDIA H100 SXM | H100 SXM vs A100 80GB |
|---|---|---|---|
 GPU.ai | $1.07 from captured | $3.99 from captured | +$2.92 (+273%) |
 Thunder Compute | $1.09 captured | $3.20 captured | +$2.11 (+194%) |
 Seeweb | $1.11 captured | $2.12 captured | +$1.01 (+91%) |
 Hyperstack | $1.35 captured | $3.20 captured | +$1.85 (+137%) |
 Massed Compute | $1.35 captured | $3.14 captured | +$1.79 (+133%) |
 Gcore | $1.41 Everywhere Inference captured | $3.06 Bare Metal GPU Clusters captured | +$1.64 (+116%) |
 Denvr Dataworks | $1.45 captured | $2.45 captured | +$1.00 (+69%) |
 VESSL AI | $1.48 captured | $2.98 captured | +$1.50 (+101%) |
 Jarvislabs | $1.49 captured | $3.49 captured | +$2.00 (+134%) |
 Geodd | $1.49 captured | $3.00 captured | +$1.51 (+101%) |
 HexGrid | $1.49 Secure Cloud captured | $2.99 Secure Cloud captured | +$1.50 (+101%) |
 Barrack AI | $1.49 captured | $3.59 captured | +$2.10 (+141%) |
 Cudo Compute | $1.50 no-kristiansand-1, GPU only captured | $1.79 no-kristiansand-1, GPU only captured | +$0.29 (+19%) |
| Elice Cloud | $1.62 captured | $3.57 captured | +$1.95 (+120%) |
 RunPod | $1.79 Secure Cloud captured | $3.99 Secure Cloud captured | +$2.20 (+123%) |
 Civo | $1.79 captured | $2.99 captured | +$1.20 (+67%) |
 Crusoe | $2.00 captured | $3.90 captured | +$1.90 (+95%) |
 Verda | $2.13 captured | $4.51 captured | +$2.39 (+112%) |
 Modal | $2.50 GPU only captured | $3.95 GPU only captured | +$1.45 (+58%) |
 CoreWeave | $2.70 captured | $6.16 captured | +$3.46 (+128%) |
 Lambda | $2.79 captured | $3.99 captured | +$1.20 (+43%) |
 STACKIT | $2.98 Germany South captured | $9.00 Germany South captured | +$6.03 (+203%) |
 Paperspace | $3.18 Paperspace captured | $4.41 GPU Droplets captured | +$1.23 (+39%) |
 Amazon Web Services | $3.43 us-east-1 captured | $6.88 us-east-1 captured | +$3.45 (+101%) |
 Microsoft Azure | $3.67 eastus2 captured | $11.06 eastus captured | +$7.39 (+201%) |
 Google Cloud | $3.93 us-central1, GPU only captured | $9.80 us-west8, GPU only captured | +$5.87 (+149%) |
 Oracle Cloud (OCI) | $4.00 captured | $10.00 captured | +$6.00 (+150%) |
Medians are median rate cards — each provider once, at its cheapest on-demand rate, community capacity and marketplace floors out — the same figure as on each card's page; the cheapest listed rate may be spot or a community tier and is labelled as such. Compare providers directly on the overview, or see each GPU's full table: NVIDIA A100 80GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM. On your own page: embed this comparison (/embed/gpus/a100-80-vs-h100-sxm, an iframe, no script).
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