Discount access, not sticker price, determines the real H100 cloud bill

Across 13 named providers, the observed compute floor runs from $1.03 to $4.72 per H100-hour. At 10 GB of public egress per GPU-hour, RunPod remains the lowest measured option at $1.03; hyperscaler network charges can add roughly $0.87–$1.00 per hour.

$1.03

lowest measured effective $/H100-hour

provider brands compared

10 GB/h

egress workload used for comparison

$1.00

largest measured egress add-on per hour

Effective $ per H100-hour at 10 GB/h public internet egress, using best surfaced discount

measured fee egress unresolved

RunPod

$1.03

TensorDock

≥$1.30

CoreWeave

$1.49

Vast.ai

$1.50

Voltage Park

$1.99

FluidStack

$2.10

Nebius

$2.15

Lambda

$2.20

Paperspace

$2.24

Google Cloud

$2.86

Azure

$3.14

AWS EC2

≥$4.72

$0$1$2$3$4$4.72

Three useful buying positions

lowest interruptible floor

RunPod

$1.03/h

Spot pricing plus a measured zero egress fee produces the lowest modeled hourly cost. Community capacity is variable; Secure Cloud is the more controlled tier.

reserved specialist cloud

CoreWeave

$1.49/h

The surfaced three-year reserved rate is materially below its $2.23 sticker. The result set describes supply as abundant in North America and Europe.

self-serve without contract

Voltage Park

$1.99/h

Self-serve H100 capacity was described as deployable in about 15 minutes, with no minimum term and zero surfaced egress charge.

What changes the answer

Egress can reverse a cheap compute quote. Vast.ai’s $0.60 interruptible compute floor becomes $1.50 at 10 GB/h because the surfaced egress fee is $0.09/GB. gridstackhub.ai

Hyperscaler discounts come with access constraints. Azure’s spot floor is $2.27/H100-hour, while AWS H100 capacity commonly uses advance Capacity Blocks rather than simple single-GPU self-service. sparecores.com · aws.amazon.com

Marketplace prices are floors, not guarantees. RunPod, TensorDock and Vast.ai vary by host, region, machine configuration and momentary stock; their lowest quote should be treated as discoverable capacity, not a durable reservation.

One quote failed the consistency check. Crusoe sources surfaced a $1.04 sticker and a $2.94 “spot” value, an impossible discount relationship; it is retained below but excluded from ranking.

Provider detail

Provider	Sticker $/GPU-h	Best discount $/GPU-h	Discount / access	Egress $/GB	Effective at 10 GB/h	Availability signal	Source
RunPod	1.47	1.03	Spot	0.00	1.03	Available; Community variable, Secure Cloud controlled	turion.ai
TensorDock	2.09	1.30	Spot	—	≥1.30	Marketplace; on-demand and spot	flevy.com
CoreWeave	2.23	1.49	3-year reserved	0.00	1.49	Abundant supply; North America and Europe	cloudpricecalculators.com
Vast.ai	0.90	0.60	Spot / preemptible	0.09	1.50	Marketplace across many independent hosts	intuitionlabs.ai
Voltage Park	1.99	1.99	No contract	0.00	1.99	Self-serve, roughly 15-minute provisioning; US only	rfp.wiki
FluidStack	2.10	2.10	Reserved	0.00	2.10	Claims multi-thousand-GPU deployment in days	inferencehub.org
Nebius	2.95	2.15	Preemptible	0.00	2.15	EU-north1/2, EU-west1, US-central1 surfaced	spheron.network
Lambda	2.49	2.20	1-year reserved	0.00	2.20	On-demand varies; reservation guarantees capacity	gpuadvisor.com
Paperspace	3.09	2.24	36-month commit	0.00	2.24	5–10 instances across regions; high variance	cloudpricecalculators.com
Google Cloud	2.99	1.86	3-year commitment	0.10	2.86	A3 regions surfaced; quotas/capacity still apply	deploybase.ai
Microsoft Azure	12.29	2.27	Spot	0.087	3.14	Active; East US/East US 2 surfaced, 1–4 week signal	sparecores.com
AWS EC2	4.72*	4.72*	Capacity Block	—	≥4.72	Advance Capacity Block; 8-GPU instance access	aws.amazon.com
Crusoe Cloud	1.04†	2.94†	Conflicting extraction	0.00	—	US-West and US-Central surfaced	computecomparison.com

Method — Live web scan on 25 Aug 2026; 246 targeted pages plus specialist and hyperscaler result sets were consolidated to 14 normalized rows, then the duplicate AWS brand was merged editorially. “Effective” = lowest surfaced discounted compute price per H100-hour + 10 × first-tier public internet egress $/GB. Unknown egress is shown as ≥, not assumed free. Prices mix H100 SXM and PCIe offerings and may exclude CPU, storage, tax and minimum cluster size. *AWS value is a Capacity Block accelerator rate, not ordinary on-demand sticker pricing. †Crusoe was excluded from ranking because its extracted discount exceeded its sticker.