A100 vs B200: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. A100 from $0.735/GPU/hr across 7 providers; B200 from $6.79/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The A100 is 89% cheaper at the entry rate.
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A100 vs B200: common questions
Is the A100 or the B200 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A100 starts at $0.735/GPU/hr (median $1.59/GPU/hr across 7 providers) and the B200 starts at $6.79/GPU/hr (median $6.79/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The A100 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 89%.
What is the difference between the A100 and the B200?
The A100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the B200's 180 GB; the A100 is an Ampere part and the B200 is Blackwell (compute capability 8.0 vs 10.0); only the B200 supports FP8 compute. On price, the A100 lists from $0.735/GPU/hr and the B200 from $6.79/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A100 and the B200?
7 providers list the A100 (Vast.ai, RunPod, Verda, Massed Compute, HyperStack, Jarvislabs and Akash) and 3 list the B200 (RunPod, Nebius and Vast.ai), across 7 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai and RunPod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A100 vs the B200?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $735 on the A100 and $6,790 on the B200, a difference of $6,055 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How this comparison is calculated
Every price is normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using the same pipeline as every other pricing surface on Aquanode, and only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown. A dash means that provider does not currently list that GPU.
Architecture, compute capability and supported precisions come from each vendor's published datasheet for that generation, not from the marketplace feed. This page regenerates at most once per hour.
