H100 vs RTX A6000: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. H100 from $2.45/GPU/hr across 6 providers; RTX A6000 from $0.500/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The RTX A6000 is 80% cheaper at the entry rate.
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H100 vs RTX A6000: common questions
Is the H100 or the RTX A6000 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the H100 starts at $2.45/GPU/hr (median $3.29/GPU/hr across 6 providers) and the RTX A6000 starts at $0.500/GPU/hr (median $0.530/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The RTX A6000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 80%.
What is the difference between the H100 and the RTX A6000?
The H100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX A6000's 48 GB; the H100 is a Hopper part and the RTX A6000 is Ampere (compute capability 9.0 vs 8.6); only the H100 supports FP8 compute. On price, the H100 lists from $2.45/GPU/hr and the RTX A6000 from $0.500/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the H100 and the RTX A6000?
6 providers list the H100 (Massed Compute, HyperStack, RunPod, Akash, Vast.ai and DataCrunch) and 3 list the RTX A6000 (Massed Compute, RunPod and Vast.ai), across 6 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from Massed Compute, RunPod and Vast.ai.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the H100 vs the RTX A6000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $2,450 on the H100 and $500 on the RTX A6000 — a difference of $1,950 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.
