# GPU Economy

> Retail purchase prices and cloud rental prices for datacenter and consumer GPUs,
> collected from public provider pricing pages and normalized to a single
> comparable unit: US dollars per GPU per hour.

Prices are re-scraped on a schedule and stored append-only, so every figure has a
capture timestamp and a source URL. Node-priced offerings (CoreWeave, Lambda SXM,
Paperspace) are divided by GPU count so a per-node quote never gets compared
against a per-GPU one. Every page shows the date its data was captured.

## Data

- [Cloud GPU Price Index](https://gpueconomy.com/price-index): weekly median market price of one NVIDIA H100 GPU-hour across major providers. CC BY 4.0.
- Machine-readable: [price-index.json](https://gpueconomy.com/price-index.json) (current value, constituents with source links, weekly series), [price-index.csv](https://gpueconomy.com/price-index.csv) (the series), and [prices.json](https://gpueconomy.com/prices.json) (every current rental quote with provider, GPU, price type, region, normalized and listed price, and source URL).
- [Price changelog](https://gpueconomy.com/changelog): every observed price change, newest first.

## Pages

- [Methodology](https://gpueconomy.com/methodology): how prices are collected and normalized, what is never done (estimates, currency conversion), and every source with its status.

- [Home](https://gpueconomy.com/): cheapest current rate per GPU model across all tracked providers.
- [GPU pages](https://gpueconomy.com/): per model - retail purchase price alongside the full rental table.
- [Provider pages](https://gpueconomy.com/): per provider - full price list and served regions.
- [Provider comparisons](https://gpueconomy.com/): /compare/{a}-vs-{b} - two providers side by side on the GPUs both list, cheaper one per GPU.
- [GPU comparisons](https://gpueconomy.com/): /gpus/{a}-vs-{b} - two GPUs side by side: specs, median and cheapest rental rate, providers listing both.

## Citing

Attribute as "GPU Economy" and link the specific page. Each price carries the
source URL it was read from; cite that source for the price itself, and cite us
for the normalization and the cross-provider comparison.

## Limits

- Listed public prices only. Negotiated, committed-use and enterprise contract rates are not visible to us and are not included.
- Availability is not tracked: a listed price does not mean capacity is free right now.
- Spot and preemptible rates move faster than our scrape interval; treat them as indicative.