Cloud GPU market, September 2026
A review generated from our own hourly scrape, not written by hand: 4 weekly points, week of September 7, 2026 to week of September 28, 2026. See the methodology for how the index is built.
Frozen on : these figures are the ones first published for September 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 September 2026, 26 providers listed an on-demand H100 SXM rate in the panel (28 quotes), against no comparable month before it. The month’s last weekly point is the week of September 28, 2026 to October 4, 2026, which had not closed when the month was frozen: its figures are that week’s level as read on — provisional at freeze, not the week’s close.
- The monthly average of the hourly index over September 2026: $3.883267 per H100 GPU-hour (final, 589 points over 720 hours, every hourly point, before the fixed-panel rule) — a different window of the same index, defined in the specification; every month.
- The base-100 H100 index closed September 2026 at 100.8, and stands above the base week of September 7, 2026 (= 100) by 0.8%. The index moves only when a provider’s listed price changes, never when the panel does.
- The dollar median stood at $3.56 per H100 GPU-hour across 26 providers. Read the median as a level with its panel size; a provider joining or leaving moves it.
- Largest fall: EmpirioLabs NVIDIA L40S from $1.80 to $0.80 per GPU-hour (−55.6%) in the week of September 28, 2026 (source).
- Largest rise: Sesterce NVIDIA H200 from $2.09 to $2.48 per GPU-hour (+18.7%) in the week of September 14, 2026 (source).
- Cheapest listed on-demand rates in the week of September 28, 2026: NVIDIA H100 SXM $1.79 on Cudo Compute (no-kristiansand-1) (source); NVIDIA H200 $2.09 on Beam (source); NVIDIA B200 $2.69 on ionstream (source).
Weekly points
| Week of | Median USD / GPU-hour | Providers | Index (base = 100) |
|---|---|---|---|
| $3.92 | 18 | 100.0 | |
| $3.90 | 19 | 100.1 | |
| $3.70 | 24 | 100.4 | |
| $3.56 | 26 | 100.8 |
Recomputed from later data, as of October 5, 2026
Recomputing September 2026 from the data as of gives different figures for what is listed below — usually because an upstream series was corrected or a rule changed. The figures above stay as they were published on October 1, 2026; cite them with that date, or cite the recomputed value with this one.
| Figure | As published | Recomputed |
|---|---|---|
| index at month end | 100.8 | 102.6 |
| dollar median at month end | $3.56 | $3.49 |
| providers at month end | 26 | 29 |
| largest fall | empiriolabs l40s −55.6%, week of 2026-09-28 | sesterce b300 −37.4%, week of 2026-09-14 |
| largest rise | sesterce h200 +18.7%, week of 2026-09-14 | fal b300 +52.8%, week of 2026-09-28 |
| cheapest listed at month end | h100-sxm $1.79 on cudo; h200 $2.09 on beam; b200 $2.69 on ionstream | h100-sxm $1.79 on cudo; h200 $2.09 on beam; b200 $3.69 on deepinfra |
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| Plain | GPU Economy, "Cloud GPU market, September 2026", October 5, 2026. https://gpueconomy.com/market/2026-09 |
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| Markdown | [GPU Economy, "Cloud GPU market, September 2026" (October 5, 2026)](https://gpueconomy.com/market/2026-09) |
| APA | GPU Economy. (2026-10-05). Cloud GPU market, September 2026. Retrieved from https://gpueconomy.com/market/2026-09 |
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