Answers · data as of Aug 11 2026
Which cloud GPU provider is cheapest?
No single provider is cheapest for everything — today Vast.ai wins the most multi-provider SKUs (10), and the same GPU spreads up to ~2× across providers, so the answer depends on which GPU you need.
- NVIDIA B300: cheapest at Massed Compute ($5.95/hr); spread 1.3× across 4 providers.
- NVIDIA B200: cheapest at Massed Compute ($4.71/hr); spread 1.8× across 6 providers.
- NVIDIA H200 SXM: cheapest at DataCrunch ($4.00/hr); spread 1.8× across 5 providers.
- NVIDIA H100 SXM: cheapest at Voltage Park ($1.99/hr); spread 5.9× across 11 providers.
- NVIDIA H200 NVL: cheapest at Vast.ai ($3.16/hr); spread 1.2× across 3 providers.
- NVIDIA H100 NVL: cheapest at Vast.ai ($1.83/hr); spread 3.8× across 4 providers.
- AMD Instinct MI300X: cheapest at RunPod ($2.39/hr); spread 1.3× across 2 providers.
- NVIDIA H100 PCIe: cheapest at Thunder Compute ($1.09/hr); spread 3.0× across 5 providers.
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell: cheapest at Vast.ai ($1.67/hr); spread 2.3× across 7 providers.
- NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM: cheapest at Vast.ai ($1.09/hr); spread 3.7× across 8 providers.
- NVIDIA L40S: cheapest at Vast.ai ($0.80/hr); spread 2.8× across 8 providers.
- NVIDIA A100 40GB SXM: cheapest at Vast.ai ($0.80/hr); spread 4.2× across 5 providers.
- NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe: cheapest at Vast.ai ($1.00/hr); spread 3.7× across 4 providers.
- NVIDIA A100 40GB PCIe: cheapest at Vast.ai ($0.87/hr); spread 2.3× across 3 providers.
- NVIDIA L40: cheapest at Thunder Compute ($0.35/hr); spread 3.9× across 5 providers.
- NVIDIA RTX A6000: cheapest at RunPod ($0.53/hr); spread 2.1× across 4 providers.
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada: cheapest at Vast.ai ($0.69/hr); spread 1.2× across 2 providers.
- NVIDIA RTX 3090: cheapest at Vast.ai ($0.17/hr); spread 2.9× across 2 providers.
This answer is computed from live data on every load — per-provider daily medians, per single GPU per hour, pricing tiers never mixed (see methodology). Quote it with attribution: “Data: Price of Compute — priceofcompute.com” (cite).