A100 vs H100: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. A100 from $0.838/GPU/hr across 5 providers; H100 from $2.52/GPU/hr across 5 providers. The A100 is 67% cheaper at the entry rate.
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A100 vs H100: common questions
Is the A100 or the H100 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A100 starts at $0.838/GPU/hr (median $1.39/GPU/hr across 5 providers) and the H100 starts at $2.52/GPU/hr (median $3.29/GPU/hr across 5 providers). The A100 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 67%.
What is the difference between the A100 and the H100?
Both cards report 80 GB of VRAM; the A100 is an Ampere part and the H100 is Hopper (compute capability 8.0 vs 9.0); only the H100 supports FP8 compute. On price, the A100 lists from $0.838/GPU/hr and the H100 from $2.52/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A100 and the H100?
5 providers list the A100 (Vast.ai, RunPod, Massed Compute, HyperStack and Akash) and 5 list the H100 (HyperStack, RunPod, Vast.ai, Akash and DataCrunch), across 5 and 5 regions respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai, RunPod, HyperStack and Akash.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A100 vs the H100?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $838 on the A100 and $2,525 on the H100 — a difference of $1,687 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.
