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.
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Normalized April 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
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Price sources: provider pricing pages linked in References below. Vast.ai values are marketplace estimates and vary by host and region.
Result: Two hours on Thunder Compute's H100s costs less than 25 minutes on AWS H100s and less than 12 minutes on GCP H100s.
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>
