H100 vs RTX 3070: cloud rental cost compared

You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. H100 from $2.52/GPU/hr across 5 providers; RTX 3070 from $0.050/GPU/hr across 2 providers. The RTX 3070 is 98% cheaper at the entry rate.

H100
Good for training and serving frontier-scale LLMs
$2.52/hr
Lowest / GPU
$3.29/hr
Median / GPU
80 GB
VRAM
Hopper
Architecture
RTX 3070
Good for inference and small-scale training workloads
$0.050/hr
Lowest / GPU
$0.130/hr
Median / GPU
8 GB
VRAM
Ampere
Architecture

Specs side by side

Spec
H100
RTX 3070
VRAM
80 GB
8 GB
Architecture
Hopper
Ampere
Compute capability
9.0
8.6
Precisions in hardware
FP32, FP16, BF16, FP8, INT4
FP32, FP16, BF16, INT4
Interconnect
PCIe
PCIe 4.0 x16
Lowest $/GPU/hr
$2.52
$0.050
Median $/GPU/hr
$3.29
$0.130
Providers
5
2
Regions
5
2

Price by provider

H100 vs RTX 3070: common questions

Is the H100 or the RTX 3070 cheaper to rent?

On Aquanode's live marketplace the H100 starts at $2.52/GPU/hr (median $3.29/GPU/hr across 5 providers) and the RTX 3070 starts at $0.050/GPU/hr (median $0.130/GPU/hr across 2 providers). The RTX 3070 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 98%.

What is the difference between the H100 and the RTX 3070?

The H100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX 3070's 8 GB; the H100 is a Hopper part and the RTX 3070 is Ampere (compute capability 9.0 vs 8.6); only the H100 supports FP8 compute. On price, the H100 lists from $2.52/GPU/hr and the RTX 3070 from $0.050/GPU/hr.

Which cloud providers offer the H100 and the RTX 3070?

5 providers list the H100 (HyperStack, Akash, Massed Compute, RunPod and Verda) and 2 list the RTX 3070 (SimplePod and RunPod), across 5 and 2 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod.

How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the H100 vs the RTX 3070?

At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $2,525 on the H100 and $50 on the RTX 3070, a difference of $2,475 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.

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