GPU Pricing Index

Rank cloud GPUs by normalized rental cost, provider coverage, spot discount, and budget tier. Use the index to choose a starting GPU before opening a detailed provider page or rental calculator.

80priced GPU families
14tracked providers
$0.028index baseline / GPU-hour

Last pricing refresh: Sep 10, 2026. Index score 100 equals the lowest tracked on-demand GPU-hour in the current dataset.

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Filter by budget tier, sort by index score, and jump to the matching GPU or calculator.

Index GPU Lowest on-demand Median on-demand Spot discount Providers Tier Next step
100 V100
16GB VRAM 		$0.028/hr $3.06/hr 3% 3 Value Estimate · Details
117 L4
24GB VRAM 		$0.032/hr $2.62/hr - 4 Value Estimate · Details
153 RTX 3080
10GB VRAM 		$0.042/hr $0.106/hr - 2 Balanced Estimate · Details
201 RTX 3080 Ti
12GB VRAM 		$0.056/hr $0.118/hr - 2 Balanced Estimate · Details
217 RTX A4000
16GB VRAM 		$0.060/hr $0.320/hr -317% 4 Balanced Estimate · Details
319 RTX 3090
24GB VRAM 		$0.088/hr $0.200/hr - 3 Premium Estimate · Details
356 RTX 4080
15GB VRAM 		$0.098/hr $0.500/hr - 2 Premium Estimate · Details
471 RTX 3070
8GB VRAM 		$0.130/hr $0.130/hr - 1 Premium Estimate · Details
541 RTX 4090
24GB VRAM 		$0.149/hr $0.350/hr 28% 3 Frontier Estimate · Details
616 NVIDIA V100 16GB
16GB VRAM 		$0.170/hr $1.23/hr 50% 2 Frontier Estimate · Details
616 Tesla V100
32GB VRAM 		$0.170/hr $0.800/hr -484% 3 Frontier Estimate · Details
688 V100 FHHL
16GB VRAM 		$0.190/hr $0.190/hr 47% 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
688 Tesla V100
16GB VRAM 		$0.190/hr $0.190/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
833 V100 SXM2
16GB VRAM 		$0.230/hr $0.230/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
870 RTX 2000 Ada
16GB VRAM 		$0.240/hr $0.240/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
906 RTX A5000
24GB VRAM 		$0.250/hr $0.490/hr -8% 5 Frontier Estimate · Details
906 RTX A4500
20GB VRAM 		$0.250/hr $0.250/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
1014 A100 PCIe
80GB VRAM 		$0.280/hr $0.280/hr 43% 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
1014 RTX 4000 Ada
20GB VRAM 		$0.280/hr $0.280/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
1268 T4
16GB VRAM 		$0.350/hr $0.978/hr 60% 3 Frontier Estimate · Details
1486 A30
24GB VRAM 		$0.410/hr $0.410/hr 49% 2 Frontier Estimate · Details
1522 T4G
16GB VRAM 		$0.420/hr $1.10/hr 57% 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
1594 RTX 4000 Ada SFF
20GB VRAM 		$0.440/hr $0.440/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
1630 M4000
8GB VRAM 		$0.450/hr $0.450/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
1630 RTX A6000
48GB VRAM 		$0.450/hr $0.700/hr 32% 6 Frontier Estimate · Details
1645 A10
24GB VRAM 		$0.454/hr $2.40/hr - 3 Frontier Estimate · Details
1667 RTX 3090 Ti
24GB VRAM 		$0.460/hr $0.460/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
1775 A40
48GB VRAM 		$0.490/hr $0.800/hr - 3 Frontier Estimate · Details
1775 V100 SXM2 32GB
32GB VRAM 		$0.490/hr $0.490/hr 49% 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
1812 RTX 4070 Ti
12GB VRAM 		$0.500/hr $0.500/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
1812 RTX A2000
6GB VRAM 		$0.500/hr $0.500/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
1812 RTX PRO 6000 MaxQ
96GB VRAM 		$0.500/hr $0.500/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
1812 NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition
32GB VRAM 		$0.500/hr $0.500/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
1848 P4000
8GB VRAM 		$0.510/hr $0.510/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
2029 RTX4000
8GB VRAM 		$0.560/hr $0.560/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
2065 RTX PRO 4000
24GB VRAM 		$0.570/hr $0.570/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
2138 RTX 5080
16GB VRAM 		$0.590/hr $0.590/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
2138 PRO 6000 MIG 24GB
24GB VRAM 		$0.590/hr $0.590/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
2174 P4
8GB VRAM 		$0.600/hr $0.600/hr 60% 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
2500 Quadro RTX 6000
24GB VRAM 		$0.690/hr $0.690/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
2609 RTX PRO 4500
32GB VRAM 		$0.720/hr $0.720/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
2609 RTX PRO 4500 SE
32GB VRAM 		$0.720/hr $0.720/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
2717 RTX 6000 Ada
48GB VRAM 		$0.750/hr $0.990/hr 42% 5 Frontier Estimate · Details
2826 P5000
16GB VRAM 		$0.780/hr $0.780/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
2971 RTX5000
16GB VRAM 		$0.820/hr $0.820/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
2971 L40
48GB VRAM 		$0.820/hr $0.950/hr - 3 Frontier Estimate · Details
3007 RTX 5000 Ada
32GB VRAM 		$0.830/hr $0.830/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
3225 A100 40GB
40GB VRAM 		$0.890/hr $3.40/hr -84% 3 Frontier Estimate · Details
3478 RTX PRO 5000
48GB VRAM 		$0.960/hr $0.960/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
3587 RTX 5090
32GB VRAM 		$0.990/hr $0.990/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
3623 A100 PCIE
40GB VRAM 		$1.00/hr $1.80/hr -15% 5 Frontier Estimate · Details
3623 A100 SXM 40GB
40GB VRAM 		$1.00/hr $1.00/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
3645 A10G
24GB VRAM 		$1.01/hr $1.83/hr 50% 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
3949 A6000
48GB VRAM 		$1.09/hr $1.09/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
3949 L40S
48GB VRAM 		$1.09/hr $1.33/hr 37% 4 Frontier Estimate · Details
3949 PRO 6000 MIG 48GB
48GB VRAM 		$1.09/hr $1.09/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
3986 P6000
24GB VRAM 		$1.10/hr $1.10/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
4674 A100 40GB SXM
40GB VRAM 		$1.29/hr $1.64/hr 50% 2 Frontier Estimate · Details
4710 A100 SXM
80GB VRAM 		$1.30/hr $1.79/hr 31% 8 Frontier Estimate · Details
5290 P100
16GB VRAM 		$1.46/hr $1.46/hr 62% 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
5320 H100
80GB VRAM 		$1.47/hr $3.74/hr - 13 Frontier Estimate · Details
5761 A100 80GB
80GB VRAM 		$1.59/hr $3.67/hr - 2 Frontier Estimate · Details
5937 Gaudi $1.64/hr $1.64/hr 61% 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
6848 RTX PRO 6000
96GB VRAM 		$1.89/hr $1.89/hr 50% 3 Frontier Estimate · Details
7935 RTX PRO 6000 WK
96GB VRAM 		$2.19/hr $2.19/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
8221 H100 NVL
94GB VRAM 		$2.27/hr $2.73/hr - 2 Frontier Estimate · Details
8297 GH200
96GB VRAM 		$2.29/hr $2.29/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
8333 H200
141GB VRAM 		$2.30/hr $4.00/hr 13% 7 Frontier Estimate · Details
8659 MI300X
192GB VRAM 		$2.39/hr $2.39/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
10471 H100 PCIe
80GB VRAM 		$2.89/hr $3.29/hr - 3 Frontier Estimate · Details
12283 NVIDIA H200 NVL
143GB VRAM 		$3.39/hr $3.39/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
13587 B200
192GB VRAM 		$3.75/hr $6.11/hr 18% 3 Frontier Estimate · Details
13732 H200 NVL
143GB VRAM 		$3.79/hr $3.79/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
20072 H100 $5.54/hr $5.54/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
24239 B200 SXM6
180GB VRAM 		$6.69/hr $6.69/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
27174 B300
288GB VRAM 		$7.50/hr $7.70/hr 50% 2 Frontier Estimate · Details
31232 GB300
288GB VRAM 		$8.62/hr $8.62/hr 50% 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
32138 HGX B200 $8.87/hr $8.87/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
38406 H200 141GB
141GB VRAM 		$10.60/hr $10.60/hr - 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
44529 H100 80GB
80GB VRAM 		$12.29/hr $12.29/hr 41% 1 Frontier Estimate · Details
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How the GPU pricing index works

Index formula

index score = lowest tracked on-demand GPU-hour / cheapest tracked GPU-hour x 100

A score near 100 means the GPU is close to the cheapest tracked cloud rental baseline. A score of 400 means its lowest current GPU-hour is roughly four times that baseline.

Why median rate matters

The lowest listing can be limited by region, capacity, or marketplace host quality. Median on-demand pricing is a safer planning number when a team needs repeatable capacity.

Why provider count matters

A GPU with more providers is easier to source, compare, and negotiate. Single-provider bargains may be real, but they are less resilient for production budgets.

How to read each pricing tier

Value

Prototype and batch jobs

Start here for notebooks, image generation, small inference, and workloads where the model fits in cheaper memory.

Balanced

General AI production

Best for steady inference, fine-tuning, rendering, and ML jobs that need data-center reliability but not frontier memory.

Premium

High-memory workloads

Use when H100, H200, MI300X, or similar GPUs reduce sharding, speed up training, or make larger context windows practical.

Frontier

Blackwell and cluster capacity

Reserve this tier for workloads that clearly benefit from the newest accelerators, large nodes, or scarce enterprise capacity.

Provider benchmark shortcuts

V100

$0.028

Lowest tracked provider: Vast.ai

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L4

$0.032

Lowest tracked provider: Vast.ai

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RTX 3080

$0.042

Lowest tracked provider: Vast.ai

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RTX 3080 Ti

$0.056

Lowest tracked provider: Vast.ai

Review all 2 provider rows

RTX A4000

$0.060

Lowest tracked provider: TensorDock

Review all 4 provider rows

RTX 3090

$0.088

Lowest tracked provider: Vast.ai

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RTX 4080

$0.098

Lowest tracked provider: Vast.ai

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RTX 3070

$0.130

Lowest tracked provider: RunPod

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Common GPU pricing index decisions

Choosing between H100, H200, and B200

Start with the index score, then check whether memory bandwidth, VRAM, or Blackwell-specific performance reduces total runtime enough to justify the higher hourly rate.

Useful next steps: H100 calculator, H200 calculator, and B200 calculator.

Budgeting a rental cluster

Use the lowest rate for first-pass screening, median rate for budget approval, and provider count for capacity risk. For production inference, add idle endpoints, storage, network egress, support, and failed-run overhead.

Model the actual schedule in the GPU rental cost calculator.

Reference pricing sources

This page normalizes the prices tracked inside GPU Cost. For live market checks, compare against public provider and market references such as Runpod pricing, Vast.ai pricing, SemiAnalysis GPU Pricing Index, and AIMultiple GPU rental price index. Provider pages can change faster than indexed data, so confirm final quotes before committing to long jobs or reserved capacity.

GPU Pricing Index FAQ

A GPU pricing index normalizes cloud GPU rental prices so different accelerators can be compared from a common baseline. On this page, score 100 equals the cheapest tracked on-demand GPU-hour, and higher scores mean higher hourly cost.

No. The cheapest listing may have limited capacity, weaker networking, a less suitable region, or marketplace reliability risk. Use lowest price for screening, then compare median rate, provider count, workload fit, and total completed-job cost.

Spot discounts are useful for checkpointed training, batch inference, and interruptible experiments. For demos, production endpoints, and time-sensitive jobs, compare on-demand or reserved pricing instead of assuming spot availability.

Provider count shows how many tracked providers currently expose a GPU family. More providers usually means better capacity resilience, more region choices, and more room to compare support, networking, and commitment discounts.

Use this page to shortlist GPUs and understand relative pricing. Use the GPU rental cost calculator when you know the hourly rate, GPU count, utilization, schedule, storage, network, and overhead assumptions for a specific project.