Reports / 2026-08-14

The compute market on Aug 14

The Index closed at 118.4, −0.2% on the previous close. 1 detected repricing, all increases. 3,830 observations across 16 providers and 20 parts.

Index close

118.4

Repricings

1 (0↓ 1↑)

Widest spread

5.9×

NVIDIA H100 SXM

Median spot discount

47%

18 parts

Known price events

2026-09-01 — Claude Sonnet 5 introductory pricing ends. $2/$10 per MTok returns to $3/$15 — a rare published price increase, and one we will record on both sides. source (verified 2026-08-10)
Date TBA — DeepSeek has pre-announced an API price increase. Their own docs flag a significant increase without naming a date. We hold the before/after and will timestamp it when it lands. source (verified 2026-08-11)

What repriced

NVIDIA B300 · runpod

$7.64 → $7.89

+3.3%

Biggest median moves

NVIDIA RTX 3090 $0.37 −26.0%NVIDIA RTX 5090 $0.85 −4.5%NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada $0.73 +1.9%NVIDIA RTX 4090 $0.60 −1.6%NVIDIA L40 $0.82 +0.0%

Every figure above is recomputed from that day’s recorded observations — nothing here is written by a model or taken from a news feed. Scheduled events are hand-verified against the company’s own page, with the date checked. Methodology.