H100 rental prices up 16-30% in six months; free calculator compares 106 models across 116 GPU instances
julsimon · x · 2026-09-30
- H100 SXM on-demand pricing has risen sharply in six months: RunPod Secure Cloud went from $2.69 (March) to $3.49 (Sep 27), up 30%; Lambda's 8-GPU node went from $3.44 to $3.99 per GPU-hour, up 16%. A GPU rental budget set in March is already outdated.
- Alongside, julsimon released a free calculator covering 106 models and 116 GPU instances (last repriced Sep 27) that compares API vs self-hosted vs local deployment with break-even points.
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