The table below compares current hourly H100 pricing for a single NVIDIA H100 80GB GPU across major U.S. cloud providers.
To help you compare Nvidia H100 prices across clouds, this guide normalizes per-GPU rates (even when only multi-GPU instances are listed) and uses each provider's currently published U.S. pricing references.
| Provider | SKU/Instance | $/GPU-hr* | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thunder Compute | H100 80GB | $1.38 | Lowest on-demand price with top-tier reliability |
| Vast.ai | H100 80GB (third-party hosts) | ~$1.53 | Marketplace current price per H100 GPU. Reliability varies. |
| RunPod | H100 80GB PCIe | $1.99 | Community cloud price; Secure Cloud lists $2.39. |
| TensorDock | H100 80GB PCIe | $1.99 | Public listed single-GPU equivalent. |
| Paperspace | H100 80GB (Dedicated instance) | $2.24 | Public listed price. |
| Sesterce | H100 80GB PCIe | $2.25 | Public listed single-GPU equivalent. |
| FluidStack | H100 80GB PCIe | $2.30 | Public estimate for on-demand access. |
| Lambda | NVIDIA H100 PCIe (1x) | $3.99 | Public listed 1-GPU rate on Lambda pricing page. |
| Verda | H100 80GB PCIe | $3.39 | Public listed single-GPU equivalent. |
| Hyperstack | H100 80GB PCIe | $3.50 | Public listed single-GPU equivalent. |
| Nebius | H100 80GB PCIe | $3.50 | Public listed single-GPU equivalent. |
| Lyceum | H100 80GB PCIe | $3.69 | Public listed single-GPU equivalent. |
| JarvisLabs | H100 80GB PCIe | $3.80 | Pay-as-you-go H100 pricing. |
| Hyperbolic | H100 80GB PCIe | $1.50 | Marketplace-style H100 pricing. |
| Crusoe Cloud | H100 80GB PCIe | $4.29 | Public listed hourly pricing. |
| CoreWeave | NVIDIA HGX H100 (8 x H100) | $6.16 | $49.24/hr node price, normalized per GPU. |
| AWS | p5.4xlarge (8 x H100) | $6.88 | Capacity Blocks pricing page rate in U.S. regions. |
| Azure | NC H100 v5 VM (1 x H100 80GB) | $6.98 | Single H100 GPU VM in East US region. |
| Oracle Cloud | BM.GPU.H100.8 (8 x H100 80GB) | $10.00 | 8-GPU bare-metal node: $80.00/hr. |
| Google Cloud | A3 High (a3-highgpu-1g, 1 x H100) | $11.01 | 1x H100 80GB in US-central (on-demand). |
| *Normalized May 2026 cost per single H100 GPU, even when only multi-GPU instances are offered by the provider.* | |||
Methodology (why you can trust these numbers)
<ul><li><strong>Published list rates:</strong> Provider pages only, with normalized per-GPU pricing.</li><li><strong>Same class of silicon:</strong> All prices refer to NVIDIA H100 80GB GPUs.</li><li><strong>Normalized across SKUs:</strong> Where providers list only 8-GPU nodes, we divide by eight to get a single-GPU equivalent.</li><li><strong>USD in U.S. regions:</strong> Rates elsewhere can differ by 5-20 %.</li></ul>
Why this matters for developers
This chart compares how much it costs to run an NVIDIA H100 for 10 hours cross major cloud providers.
Price sources: provider pricing pages linked in References below. Vast.ai values are marketplace estimates and vary by host and region.
H100 workloads are expensive by default, so even small hourly price differences have an outsized impact. Whether you're training large models or running high-throughput inference, choosing a lower-cost provider can dramatically extend your budget.
Takeaways
<ul><li>Thunder Compute's H100 rate is <strong>about 2.8x cheaper than AWS</strong>, <strong>about 5x cheaper than Azure</strong>, and <strong>about 10x cheaper than GCP</strong>.</li><li>Specialized providers like RunPod and Lambda are closer than hyperscalers, but still higher than Thunder Compute on listed H100 rates.</li><li>Bookmark this page, we refresh the numbers quarterly so you do not have to.</li><li>Building a startup? See our analysis of <strong>Startup-Friendly GPU Cloud Providers</strong> for credit offers, and spin up an H100 on <a href="https://www.thundercompute.com/">Thunder Compute</a></li></ul>
References
<ul><li><a href="https://www.thundercompute.com/pricing">https://www.thundercompute.com/pricing</a></li><li><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/capacityblocks/pricing/">https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/capacityblocks/pricing/</a></li><li><a href="https://lambda.ai/pricing">https://lambda.ai/pricing</a></li><li><a href="https://www.runpod.io/pricing">https://www.runpod.io/pricing</a></li><li><a href="https://cloud.vast.ai/">https://cloud.vast.ai/</a></li><li><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/">https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/</a></li><li><a href="https://www.oracle.com/cloud/price-list/">https://www.oracle.com/cloud/price-list/</a></li><li><a href="https://coreweave.com/pricing">https://coreweave.com/pricing</a></li><li><a href="https://www.paperspace.com/pricing">https://www.paperspace.com/pricing</a></li></ul>