Reports / 2026-08-16

The compute market on Aug 16

The Index closed at 124.6, +5.0% on the previous close. No list-price provider changed a published rate — a quiet day, recorded as one. 909 observations across 16 providers and 20 parts.

Index close

124.6

Repricings

Widest spread

5.9×

NVIDIA H100 SXM

Median spot discount

46%

14 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 4090 $0.74 +21.4%NVIDIA H200 SXM $5.45 +18.7%NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada $0.75 +4.6%NVIDIA RTX 5090 $0.86 +4.0%NVIDIA RTX 3090 $0.37 +3.7%

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.