As of November 4, 2026, the cheapest listed rate for the NVIDIA H100 SXM is $1.06 per GPU-hour on Google Cloud (spot, us-west2). The cheapest on-demand rate is $1.79 on Cudo Compute (no-kristiansand-1, GPU only). Across 41 providers, the median rate card — each provider’s cheapest on-demand rate, community capacity and marketplace floors out — is $3.29 per GPU-hour, and the middle half of those rate cards sits between $2.99 and $4.41. Between rate cards, on-demand rates for the same card run from $1.79 (Cudo Compute) to $11.06 (Microsoft Azure), 6.2× apart across 41 providers. By market, the cheapest listed rates are $1.06 spot (Google Cloud, GPU only), $2.27 on community capacity (Vast.ai, floor), $1.79 on-demand (Cudo Compute, GPU only), $2.72 reserved with no stated term (Hyperstack, from), $1.81 on a 1-year commitment (Seeweb) and $2.46 on a 3-year commitment (Bitdeer AI, from). On a single rate card, Microsoft Azure (eastus) lists it at $11.06 on-demand, $7.08 on a 1-year commitment, $4.86 on a 3-year commitment and $2.04 spot: a commitment is paid whether the GPU runs or not, and spot capacity can be reclaimed mid-run. With 80 GB of VRAM, that is $0.022 per GB of memory per hour at the cheapest on-demand rate and $0.041 at the median.

The two cheapest on-demand rate cards for the NVIDIA H100 SXM, side by side on every card they both list: Cudo Compute vs Seeweb.

Dated pieces on the NVIDIA H100 SXM: October 14, 2026 — HPC-AI, Barrack, Trooper first read October 13, 2026: H100 SXM $2.20 · October 13, 2026 — FPT and Elice first read October 12, 2026: H100 SXM $2.99 and $3.57 · October 11, 2026 — Bitdeer first read October 10, 2026: GB200 $6.94, H100 SXM $2.36. Each is frozen as of its date.

As of November 4, 2026, 8 providers price the NVIDIA H100 SXM on-demand as a whole 8-GPU node (HGX, as CoreWeave, Nebius and Paperspace name it in their own listings): from $23.60 per node-hour (Limestone Networks, NVIDIA H100 SXM5, dedicated 8-GPU node, $2.95 per GPU) to $88.49 (Microsoft Azure, Standard_ND96is_H100_v5, eastus, $11.06 per GPU), 3.7× apart. 8 GPUs at the cheapest on-demand rate ($1.79 on Cudo Compute, GPU only) come to $14.32 an hour, where a provider rents 8 to one account and they need not share a unit. A unit price is what the provider quotes for the 8 GPUs together; whether it also rents one is not part of the quote.

8 GPUs for a month, 24/7 (730 h) cost from $10,454 at the listed on-demand rate of Cudo Compute ($1.79 per GPU-hour); the job bar above ranks every provider for a job of your own.

In the last closed month (October 2026) the H100 SXM like-for-like median rose 2.3%, the third month running. Over 12 months, +19%.