Nebius Spot Pricing Debut: H200 Preemptible VMs Diverge from $0.79 in EU to $5.30 in us-central1
kevinsxu · x · 2026-10-10
- aicanaries tracked day one of Nebius AI Cloud's spot pricing for preemptible VMs: H200 started at $2.45 in all regions before quickly diverging.
- EU regions fell to $0.79 at the low end while us-central1 hit $5.30, near the range ceiling—a nearly 7x spread for the same GPU.
- kevinsxu jokes that a surge of sign-ups from Menlo Park, SF South Park, and Midtown Manhattan is expected; price discovery will evolve as more participants join.
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