H100 SXM cloud GPU price comparison
| provider | $/gpu/hr | type | |
|---|---|---|---|
| RunPod | $1.99 | community | view → |
| Vast.ai | $2.13 | on-demand | view → |
| RunPod | $2.59 | community | view → |
| RunPod | $2.69 | community | view → |
| RunPod | $2.89 | on-demand | view → |
| RunPod | $3.19 | on-demand | view → |
| RunPod | $3.29 | on-demand | view → |
| Lambda | $3.99 | on-demand | view → |
What does an H100 SXM cost to rent?
As of 2026-07-05, the cheapest H100 SXM rental is $1.99 per GPU per hour at RunPod. Prices on this page are collected automatically from each provider's public pricing and refreshed daily, so the table above reflects the current market rather than a stale blog snapshot. The overall floor of $1.99/hr is a community offer, which can be interrupted; the cheapest regular on-demand price is $2.13/hr at Vast.ai.
About the H100 SXM
The NVIDIA H100 SXM is the workhorse of modern AI training: 80 GB HBM3, NVLink interconnect, and the best software support of any data-centre GPU. It remains the default choice for serious fine-tuning and multi-GPU training. It ships with 80 GB of VRAM per GPU.
On-demand vs community and spot pricing
On-demand instances run at a fixed rate until you stop them. Community and spot offers (marketplaces like Vast.ai, RunPod community cloud) are often dramatically cheaper but can be interrupted or vary in reliability between hosts. For long training runs, weigh the price gap against the cost of checkpoint restarts; for interruptible inference and experimentation, the cheaper tiers are usually the rational pick.