H100 rental prices vary 4.57x between neoclouds and hyperscalers

·2026.11.10 00:39

Key point

On-demand H100 SXM 80GB rates range from $2.69 per hour on RunPod Community to $12.29 on Azure, a 4.57x difference for the same hardware.

On-demand H100 SXM 80GB pricing spans a 4.57x range, with RunPod Community at $2.69/GPU-hr and Azure ND96isr_H100_v5 at $12.29/GPU-hr.
The price gap reflects trade-offs in infrastructure: Azure's higher cost includes 400 Gbps Quantum-2 InfiniBand with GPU Direct RDMA and enterprise SLAs, while RunPod Community relies on third-party hardware without these guarantees.
Comparisons are strictly limited to identical GPU models and memory configurations to avoid misleading spreads caused by mixing SXM, PCIe, and NVL variants.
Data excludes spot and reserved pricing, which would narrow the gap, and covers single regions (AWS us-east-1, Azure eastus) with on-demand list prices only.

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