What is the cheapest 80GB GPU to rent?
The 80GB class is led by the A100 80GB and the H100, and the A100 is usually the cheaper of the two. The cheapest verified A100 in our index is $0.89/hr. If you need 80GB of VRAM but not the H100's speed, the A100 is almost always the better value.
| GPU | VRAM | $/hr | Where | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A100 | 80 GB | $0.89 | Jarvislabs on-demand | Rent → |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 96 GB | $1.80 | Nebius on-demand | Rent → |
| GH200 | 96 GB | $1.88 | Spheron on-demand | Rent → |
| H100 | 94 GB | $1.99 | Voltage Park on-demand | Rent → |
| MI300X | 192 GB | $2.19 | RunPod secure cloud | Rent → |
| B200 | 180 GB | $3.50 | Vultr on-demand | Rent → |
| H200 | 143 GB | $3.62 | Massed Compute on-demand | Rent → |
Eighty gigabytes is the sweet spot for serving mid-to-large models and for fine-tuning without splitting across cards. The A100 80GB reaches that capacity at a lower price than the H100 because it is an older generation, and for memory-bound inference the two can feel similar in practice.
The H100 justifies its premium when you are compute-bound, for example large-batch training or throughput-heavy serving where its faster tensor cores and memory pay off. For everything else, the A100 gets you the same VRAM for less.
The table below lists the 80GB-class cards we track, sorted by price, so you can see where the A100 and H100 currently sit relative to each other across providers.
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Numbers on this page come from today's verified snapshot. Full table on the homepage; method in the methodology.