DGX A100 vs H100: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. DGX A100 from $1.24/GPU/hr across 1 provider; H100 from $2.52/GPU/hr across 5 providers. The DGX A100 is 51% cheaper at the entry rate.
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DGX A100 vs H100: common questions
Is the DGX A100 or the H100 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the DGX A100 starts at $1.24/GPU/hr (median $1.38/GPU/hr across 1 provider) and the H100 starts at $2.52/GPU/hr (median $3.29/GPU/hr across 5 providers). The DGX A100 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 51%.
What is the difference between the DGX A100 and the H100?
Both cards report 80 GB of VRAM; the DGX 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 DGX A100 lists from $1.24/GPU/hr and the H100 from $2.52/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the DGX A100 and the H100?
1 provider list the DGX A100 (Massed Compute) and 5 list the H100 (HyperStack, RunPod, Akash, Vast.ai and DataCrunch), across 1 and 5 regions respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the DGX A100 vs the H100?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $1,243 on the DGX A100 and $2,525 on the H100 — a difference of $1,283 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.
