H100 vs RTX 5090: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. H100 from $1.99/GPU/hr across 8 providers; RTX 5090 from $0.517/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The RTX 5090 is 74% 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 $1.99/GPU/hr (median $3.19/GPU/hr across 8 providers) and the RTX 5090 starts at $0.517/GPU/hr (median $0.990/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The RTX 5090 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 74%.
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 $1.99/GPU/hr and the RTX 5090 from $0.517/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the H100 and the RTX 5090?
8 providers list the H100 (RunPod, Massed Compute, HyperStack, Jarvislabs, Akash, Vast.ai, Verda and Nebius) and 4 list the RTX 5090 (Vast.ai, Akash, RunPod and SimplePod), across 8 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod, Akash and Vast.ai.
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 $1,990 on the H100 and $517 on the RTX 5090, a difference of $1,473 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.
