Marketplace H100s reach $1.35–$2.04 per hour; dependable capacity costs much more
Ten providers with public H100 prices survived the scan. At a normalized 1 GB of paid internet egress per GPU-hour, Vast.ai is the cheapest published market offer at $1.35; Google preemptible is nearly tied at $1.36 but can be interrupted, while hyperscaler on-demand offers run roughly $4.25–$10.00.
Best public rate after 1 GB of egress
What changes the buying decision
The two cheapest prices are not equivalent to reserved capacity. Vast.ai is a host marketplace, while Google’s $1.24 compute rate is preemptible and explicitly carries interruption risk. gridstackhub.ai · deploybase.ai
Egress matters most on cheap compute. One paid GB adds $0.12 on Google and $0.05 on RunPod, versus $0.09 on AWS; Lambda and CoreWeave are reported free. gpufinder.dev · computecomparison.com
Minimum topology can dominate the invoice. AWS P5, CoreWeave HGX and Oracle bare metal are commonly sold as eight-GPU systems; the table divides node price by eight, but the cash burn is still eight times the per-GPU figure. spheron.network · deploybase.ai
“Available” is not the same as continuously obtainable. AWS is described as limited/Capacity Blocks, Paperspace as constrained, Nebius as select-region, and marketplace stock varies by host. io.net · gpucloudcost.com
Price, discount, egress and availability
| Provider | Sticker $/GPU-h | Best public $/GPU-h | Egress $/GB | Effective at 1 GB/h | Availability and conditions | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vast.ai | $1.89 market top | $1.35 spot ($1.14 PCIe floor) | $0 published | $1.35 | Live marketplace; host quality, quantity and continuity vary | gridstackhub.ai |
| Google Cloud | $4.13 on-demand | $1.24 preemptible | $0.12 Premium | $1.36 | Preemptible interruption/capacity risk; on-demand is quota and region dependent | deploybase.ai |
| RunPod | $1.99 | $1.99 community | $0.05 | $2.04 | Marketplace listing verified; stock varies by host | gridstackhub.ai |
| Nebius | $3.85 HGX | $2.15 preemptible NVLink | $0.015 object storage; compute reported free | $2.17 conservative | Available in select regions; preemptible supply can disappear | docs.nebius.com |
| Lambda | $2.49 PCIe | — | Free | $2.49 | Offer published; no live stock signal exposed in scan | spheron.network |
| Paperspace | $5.95 | $1,994/mo ≈ $2.73/h | Unresolved | $2.73* | Capacity constrained; dedicated “reserve now” path advertised | getpulsesignal.com |
| CoreWeave | $49.24 / 8 = $6.16 | Private contract | Free reported | $6.16 | Published 8-GPU offer; exact regional stock not exposed | deploybase.ai |
| AWS | $55.04 / 8 = $6.88 | Private / Capacity Blocks | $0.09 after 100 GB | $6.97 | Limited; Capacity Blocks often required | spheron.network |
| Azure | $6.98 | Spot unresolved | $0.087 after 100 GB | $7.07 | Quota and region dependent; no live stock signal found | medium.com |
| Oracle Cloud | $10.00 | Commit unresolved | First 10 TB free | $10.00 | Eight-GPU bare metal; sales, quota and region dependent | medium.com |