NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM rental price
An NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM costs $1.85 per GPU-hour today, the median of 7 providers. The cheapest tracked listing is $1.19, the most expensive $4.10 — a 3.5× difference.
Price history
Each point is the daily cross-provider median for this SKU and pricing type (per-provider medians first, so no marketplace’s volume dominates). Gaps are gaps — we don’t interpolate missing data.
Dashed/hollow points before 2026-08-09: archival reconstruction from dated provider pricing-page snapshots (see methodology) — fewer providers, monthly resolution.
At today’s median, one NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM works out to $5.93 per petaFLOP-hour (BF16, dense — 312 TFLOPS per the vendor datasheet, sparsity excluded). Price per unit of throughput is how generations actually compare — a cheaper card with fewer FLOPS can cost more per unit of work.
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