Cloud GPU market, May 2026

A review generated from the reconstructed SkyPilot-catalog history, not written by hand: 4 weekly points, week of May 4, 2026 to week of May 25, 2026. Second-hand data: we vouch that the catalog published each number on that date; every figure links to the exact commit. See the methodology for how the index is built.

Frozen on September 11, 2026: these figures are the ones first published for May 2026 and are not recomputed as the data changes. If a later recomputation reads differently, the difference is listed at the end of the page with its date, and nothing above is replaced. Every month as data: /market/months.json.

In numbers

• At the end of May 2026, 7 providers listed an on-demand H100 SXM rate in the panel (7 quotes), against 6 a month earlier.
• The base-100 H100 index closed May 2026 at 71.3; it rose 1.6% from 70.2 at the end of April 2026, and stands below the base week of January 6, 2025 (= 100) by 28.7%. The index moves only when a provider’s listed price changes, never when the panel does.
• The dollar median stood at $3.29 per H100 GPU-hour across 7 providers, against $3.49 across 6 a month earlier. Read the median as a level with its panel size; a provider joining or leaving moves it.
• Largest fall: RunPod (CA) NVIDIA L40 from $0.99 to $0.82 per GPU-hour (−17.2%) in the week of May 18, 2026 (source).
• Largest rise: Verda (FIN-01) NVIDIA A100 40GB from $0.72 to $1.29 per GPU-hour (+78.9%) in the week of May 25, 2026 (source).
• Cheapest listed on-demand rates in the week of May 25, 2026: NVIDIA H100 SXM $1.82 on Cudo Compute (no-kristiansand-1) (source); NVIDIA H200 $3.50 on Nebius (eu-north1) (source); NVIDIA B200 $5.50 on Nebius (me-west1) (source).

Weekly points

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Data updated: September 12, 2026