H100 GPU rental prices vary widely
The gist
H100 GPU rentals now span $1.30 to $12.29 an hour, with a median near $4.74.
The same chip costs 4.57x more at hyperscalers than at the cheapest clouds.
How it unfolded
- Oct 2025H100 one-year contract rents hit a trough of about $1.70/hr, and as low as $1.45.
- Mar 2026SemiAnalysis's one-year contract index reached $2.35.
- Aug 25, 2026AIMultiple's Cloud GPU Rental Price Index put the median H100 rental price at about $3.38/hr, down from more than $7/hr in early 2024.
Key terms
- hyperscalers
- Large cloud computing providers whose infrastructure can scale rapidly to meet growing demand.
- SXM 80GB
- A data-center GPU built on Nvidia's Hopper microarchitecture, used for AI and high-performance computing.
Source: Wikipedia