Reports / 2026-08-12

The compute market on Aug 12

The Index closed at 127.5, +9.1% on the previous close. No list-price provider changed a published rate — a quiet day, recorded as one. 372 observations across 15 providers and 20 parts.

Index close

127.5

Repricings

Widest spread

5.9×

NVIDIA H100 SXM

Median spot discount

50%

11 parts

Known price events

2026-09-01 — Claude Sonnet 5 introductory pricing ends. $2/$10 per MTok returns to $3/$15 — a rare published price increase, and one we will record on both sides. source (verified 2026-08-10)
Date TBA — DeepSeek has pre-announced an API price increase. Their own docs flag a significant increase without naming a date. We hold the before/after and will timestamp it when it lands. source (verified 2026-08-11)

Biggest median moves

NVIDIA RTX 3090 $0.50 +48.5%NVIDIA RTX A6000 $0.79 +37.7%NVIDIA A100 40GB PCIe $1.57 +36.5%NVIDIA RTX 4090 $0.74 +31.1%NVIDIA L40 $1.03 +26.2%

Every figure above is recomputed from that day’s recorded observations — nothing here is written by a model or taken from a news feed. Scheduled events are hand-verified against the company’s own page, with the date checked. Methodology.