Pricing
Below is a price snapshot for single A100 GPU rental rates (as of December 2025). All numbers are on-demand, pay-by-the-hour in a U.S. region unless noted.
*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)
<ul><li><strong>On-demand only:</strong> No reserved-instance, commitment, or prepaid discounts.</li><li><strong>Same class of silicon:</strong> All providers offer NVIDIA A100 GPUs; SKUs with 80 GB are higher.</li><li><strong>Public price lists:</strong> 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.</li><li><strong>USD in U.S. regions:</strong> Rates in other regions can differ by 5-20%.</li></ul>
Why this matters for developers
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
<ul><li><strong>Thunder Compute is ~7× cheaper</strong> than GCP for a single A100 and still 2-3× cheaper than Lambda, RunPod, PaperSpace, Vast, or Azure.</li><li>Bookmark this page; we'll refresh the numbers every quarter so you don't have to.</li></ul>
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.