GPU price history

Most price comparison sites show you today's number and nothing else. This is the record of every day. Once a day we snapshot the cheapest rate for each GPU across the providers we track, write it down, and never overwrite it. The result is an append-only ledger: a growing, public, normalized history of what GPU rental has actually cost over time, free to read and free to cite.

The important word is append-only. History cannot be backfilled. If a price was not recorded on the day it was live, it is gone, because the live rate is gone. Nobody can reconstruct what a spot instance cost last Tuesday after the fact. That is why the ledger only grows forward from the day we started recording, and why starting early matters more than starting complete. Every snapshot we keep is one more day nobody has to guess about.

A few patterns are worth watching once you have some history to read:

- **New-generation launches push last-gen prices down.** When a newer card ships and supply ramps, demand shifts off the previous flagship and its rate drifts lower. The clearest buying signal in this market is an older card sliding after a newer one arrives. - **Capacity crunches spike spot prices.** Interruptible and spot rates track spare capacity, so when demand surges the cheap tiers are the first to jump and the last to settle. A sudden spike in the spot line usually means the market is tight, not that the card got more valuable. - **On-demand rates trend slowly, spot rates twitch.** The on-demand line tells you the long-run direction; the spot line tells you how tight this week is. Read them together.

Every GPU page on this site carries its own chart, so the history sits right next to the live price you are about to pay. Use it to tell a genuine low from noise, and to decide whether a card worth renting is on a slope worth waiting out.