H100 vs RTX A5000: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. H100 from $2.10/GPU/hr across 6 providers; RTX A5000 from $0.261/GPU/hr across 2 providers. The RTX A5000 is 88% cheaper at the entry rate.
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H100 vs RTX A5000: common questions
Is the H100 or the RTX A5000 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the H100 starts at $2.10/GPU/hr (median $3.49/GPU/hr across 6 providers) and the RTX A5000 starts at $0.261/GPU/hr (median $0.270/GPU/hr across 2 providers). The RTX A5000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 88%.
What is the difference between the H100 and the RTX A5000?
The H100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX A5000's 24 GB; the H100 is a Hopper part and the RTX A5000 is Ampere (compute capability 9.0 vs 8.6); only the H100 supports FP8 compute. On price, the H100 lists from $2.10/GPU/hr and the RTX A5000 from $0.261/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the H100 and the RTX A5000?
6 providers list the H100 (Vast.ai, Massed Compute, HyperStack, RunPod, Akash and Verda) and 2 list the RTX A5000 (Vast.ai and RunPod), across 6 and 2 regions respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai and RunPod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the H100 vs the RTX A5000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $2,101 on the H100 and $261 on the RTX A5000, a difference of $1,840 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.
