B200 vs H100: cloud rental cost compared
Short answer: pick the B200 when you want the newer Blackwell generation and it's priced and available where you need it. Pick the H100 when H100 availability is far wider today and your workload is already validated on Hopper.
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. B200 from $6.79/GPU/hr across 3 providers; H100 from $1.99/GPU/hr across 8 providers. The H100 is 71% cheaper at the entry rate.
Specs side by side
Price by provider
Which should you pick: B200 or H100?
Both are FP8-capable, but the B200 is a Blackwell-generation part against the H100's Hopper generation (lib/tools/gpu-capabilities.ts). Aquanode has no verified single-GPU VRAM or bandwidth figure for the B200 to cite here, so the honest comparison for most renters is generation, availability and price, not a spec-sheet number this page can back with a source. Pick the B200 when you want the newer Blackwell generation and it's priced and available where you need it; pick the H100 when H100 availability is far wider today and your workload is already validated on Hopper. On price the H100 undercuts the B200 by 71% at the entry rate ($1.99 vs $6.79/GPU/hr). Worth weighing if the deciding factor above isn't a hard requirement for your job.
Decision criteria
Pick the B200 when
- You want the newer Blackwell generation and it's available where you need it
- You're evaluating next-gen hardware ahead of a larger commitment
- Your workload is priced competitively on current B200 supply
Pick the H100 when
- You need the widest provider and region selection today
- Your workload is already validated on Hopper with no clear reason to move
- H100 pricing beats B200 for your job size
Price-performance
At list rates, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $1,990 on the H100 against $6,790 on the B200. Neither NVIDIA nor Aquanode publishes a workload-normalized $/token or $/epoch figure for this pair, so $/GPU-hour below is the only apples-to-apples number. A faster card can still cost less per finished job even at a higher hourly rate.
B200 vs H100: common questions
Is the B200 or the H100 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the B200 starts at $6.79/GPU/hr (median $6.79/GPU/hr across 3 providers) and the H100 starts at $1.99/GPU/hr (median $3.17/GPU/hr across 8 providers). The H100 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 71%.
What is the difference between the B200 and the H100?
The B200 has 180 GB of VRAM against the H100's 80 GB; the B200 is a Blackwell part and the H100 is Hopper (compute capability 10.0 vs 9.0); both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the B200 lists from $6.79/GPU/hr and the H100 from $1.99/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the B200 and the H100?
3 providers list the B200 (RunPod, Nebius and Vast.ai) and 8 list the H100 (RunPod, Massed Compute, HyperStack, Jarvislabs, Akash, Vast.ai, Verda and Nebius), across 3 and 8 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod, Nebius and Vast.ai.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the B200 vs the H100?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $6,790 on the B200 and $1,990 on the H100, a difference of $4,800 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
Should I wait for B200 supply instead of renting an H100 now?
Only if B200 availability and price already work for you. It currently lists from $6.79/GPU/hr across 3 provider(s), against the H100's $1.99/GPU/hr across 8. The H100 remains the far more available SKU right now, which matters if you need capacity today rather than whenever B200 supply catches up.
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.
