How much does an A100 cost per hour?
The cheapest firm A100 rate in our index is $0.89/hr. Spot capacity (which the provider can take back mid-job) and community-cloud capacity (spare GPUs from independent hosts, with fewer guarantees) are priced separately. The A100 is a generation older than the H100, so it reaches the same 80GB of VRAM for noticeably less, which makes it the value pick for memory-bound work.
| GPU | VRAM | $/hr | Where | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A100 PCIe 80GB | 80 GB | $0.679 | Microsoft Azure spot / interruptible | Rent → |
| A100 PCIe 80GB | 80 GB | $0.679 | Microsoft Azure spot / interruptible | Rent → |
| A100 PCIe 80GB | 80 GB | $0.679 | Microsoft Azure spot / interruptible | Rent → |
| A100 SXM 40GB | 40 GB | $0.738 | Microsoft Azure spot / interruptible | Rent → |
| A100 SXM 40GB | 40 GB | $0.748 | Microsoft Azure spot / interruptible | Rent → |
| A100 SXM 40GB | 40 GB | $0.89 | Jarvislabs on-demand | Rent → |
| A100 (unspecified) | 80 GB | $0.95 | Hyperstack reserved / committed | Rent → |
| A100 SXM 80GB | 80 GB | $1.00 | Lium secure cloud | Rent → |
The A100 ships in a few forms that carry different prices. The SXM version has faster memory and NVLink between cards and costs more than the PCIe version, and there are both 40GB and 80GB variants, with the 80GB card commanding a premium. An interruptible or spot instance can run well under a firm on-demand rate, so check which variant and which reliability tier a quote actually covers.
Most of the spread between providers comes down to who guarantees what. A large hyperscaler bundles support, compliance, and dedicated hardware, so its rate sits near the top. A community marketplace pools spare GPUs from independent hosts and passes the savings on, which is why the same card can look several times cheaper there.
The table below shows the current firm rates across the providers we track, sorted by price. It is rebuilt from the daily snapshot, so it reflects what was verified most recently rather than a list price that may already be stale.
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