H100 vs RTX 5090: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. H100 from $2.52/GPU/hr across 5 providers; RTX 5090 from $0.454/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The RTX 5090 is 82% cheaper at the entry rate.
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H100 vs RTX 5090: common questions
Is the H100 or the RTX 5090 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 5090 starts at $0.454/GPU/hr (median $0.668/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The RTX 5090 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 82%.
What is the difference between the H100 and the RTX 5090?
The H100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX 5090's 32 GB; the H100 is a Hopper part and the RTX 5090 is Blackwell (compute capability 9.0 vs 12.0); both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the H100 lists from $2.52/GPU/hr and the RTX 5090 from $0.454/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the H100 and the RTX 5090?
5 providers list the H100 (HyperStack, RunPod, Vast.ai, Akash and DataCrunch) and 4 list the RTX 5090 (Vast.ai, SimplePod, Akash and RunPod), across 5 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod, Vast.ai and Akash.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the H100 vs the RTX 5090?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $2,525 on the H100 and $454 on the RTX 5090 — a difference of $2,071 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.
