Head to head · updated 2026-09-10
A100-SXM vs H100-SXM: price and deliverability
H100-SXM currently rents at 2.2× the median price of A100-SXM ($3.99 vs $1.79 per GPU-hour on demand). Whether that premium is worth it depends on memory, fabric, and what you are actually running — not the sticker.
| A100-SXM | H100-SXM | |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest on-demand $/GPU-hr | $0.91 | $3.20 |
| Median on-demand | $1.79 | $3.99 |
| Sellers tracked | 5 | 12 |
| Grade A/B offerings | 1 | 16 |
| Max VRAM per GPU (tracked SKUs) | 80 GB | 80 GB |
Same-name capacity is not one good: within each column, prices spread by multiples depending on fabric. Check the per-GPU pages for every listing with its published interconnect, and the substitutability rules for when one can genuinely replace the other.
These ratios move weekly
The Delivered Compute Report tracks the spread — free, every row sourced.
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