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NVIDIA A100 Pricing: Cheapest Cloud GPUs (July 2025)
What are the cheapest GPU clouds to rent NVIDIA A100s for deep learning?
Published:
Apr 16, 2025
Last updated:
Jul 9, 2025
Below is a price snapshot for single A100 GPU rental rates (as of July 2025). All numbers are on‑demand, pay‑by‑the‑hour in a U.S. region unless noted.
Provider | SKU / Instance | On-Demand $/GPU-hr* | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
A100 40 GB | $0.66 | On-demand; multi-GPU nodes vary | |
A100 80 GB (40 GB N/A) | $1.19 | Marketplace; Secure Cloud ≈ 50 % higher | |
A100 SXM4 | $1.27 | Crowdsourced; reliability varies | |
1 × A100 40 GB | $1.29 | Flat per-GPU rate | |
1 × A100 40 GB | $3.09 | Lower with 1–3 yr commitments | |
ND96asr A100 v4 (8 × A100) | $3.40 | $27.20/hr box → ÷ 8 GPUs | |
p4d.24xlarge (8 × A100) | $3.02 | $24.15/hr VM → ÷ 8 GPUs | |
a2-highgpu-1g (1 × A100 40 GB) | $4.27 | Workstation VM price |
*Per‑GPU costs for multi‑GPU nodes are averages for fair comparison; network, storage, and egress are not included.
Methodology (why you can trust these numbers)
On‑demand only: No reserved‑instance, commitment, or prepaid discounts.
Same class of silicon: All providers offer NVIDIA A100 40 GB cards; SKUs with 80 GB are higher.
Public price lists: Each figure comes from the vendor’s current pricing page on the date above; where a provider sells only 8‑GPU nodes we divided by eight to get a single‑GPU equivalent.
USD in U.S. regions: Rates in other regions can differ by 5‑20%.
Why this matters for developers
Provider | 2 hrs runtime | Effective cost |
|---|---|---|
Thunder Compute | 2 × $0.66 | $1.32 |
Lambda | 2 × $1.29 | $2.58 |
Paperspace | 2 × $3.09 | $6.18 |
Azure | 2 × $3.40 | $6.80 |
AWS | 2 × $3.02 | $6.04 |
Result: You get five to seven hours on a budget cloud GPU provider like Thunder Compute for the price of one on the big clouds.
Takeaways
Thunder Compute is ~7× cheaper than GCP for a single A100 and still 2‑3× cheaper than Lambda, RunPod, PaperSpace, Vast, or Azure.
Bookmark this page; we’ll refresh the numbers every quarter so you don’t have to.
If you work for a startup, check out our analysis of Startup-Friendly GPU Cloud Providers for an analysis that includes credit offers. Check out Thunder Compute for the cheapest A100s anywhere.
Carl Peterson
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