Answers · data as of Aug 11 2026
How much does an NVIDIA A100 cost to rent per hour?
Renting one NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM costs about $1.82 per GPU-hour on demand right now — the median across 8 tracked cloud providers.
- Per-provider on-demand medians: Vast.ai $1.09 · Massed Compute $1.38 · RunPod $1.59 · DataCrunch $1.79 · Hyperstack $1.85 · Denvr $2.30 · Lambda $2.79 · Azure $4.10.
- Interruptible/spot median: $0.90/hr — 51% below on-demand.
- Prices are per single GPU per hour; multi-GPU instances are divided by GPU count. Listed price ≠ guaranteed availability.
This answer is computed from live data on every load — per-provider daily medians, per single GPU per hour, pricing tiers never mixed (see methodology). Quote it with attribution: “Data: Price of Compute — priceofcompute.com” (cite).