Methodology

Every number on this site is either fetched from a provider source or computed by a formula we show. Nothing is typed in by hand, and nothing stale is presented as live.

Where prices come from

Once per day we fetch each provider's own pricing source: a public API where one exists, the official pricing page otherwise. Current providers: RunPod, Lambda, Hyperstack, CoreWeave, Nebius, DataCrunch, Voltage Park, Crusoe, Jarvislabs, OVHcloud, Spheron, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Together AI, fal, Modal, Vultr, Massed Compute (expanding). Two exceptions to "provider's own source": AWS prices come from ec2.shop, a public mirror of AWS's on-demand and spot feeds (AWS's own bulk file is impractical to fetch daily), and Azure prices come from Azure's public Retail Prices API. Both are labeled with those sources on each row. Each row stores the price, the source URL, and the exact fetch timestamp. The Verified badge on every table shows that timestamp.

Three kinds of numbers

• Sourced: a price fetched from the provider, shown with its source link and verification date.
• Computed: derived values ($/hr per GB VRAM, break-even hours). The formula is printed next to the result.
• Never invented: if we can't verify a number, we say "no data" or flag the last verified value. A stale price presented as live is just a hallucination with a UI.

When a fetch fails

Providers change their pages. When a fetch or parse fails, that provider's rows are carried forward and visibly flagged with the date they were last verified: they never silently pretend to be today's price. Persistent failures get fixed or the provider is dropped.

The price ledger

Every daily snapshot is kept forever (4 so far, since 2026-07-05). That append-only ledger powers the per-GPU history charts and the downloadable dataset. History cannot be backfilled: which is exactly why we record it.

Tiers explained

Secure / on-demand capacity runs in datacenters with availability guarantees. Community / spot capacity is cheaper and interruptible. We show both and label every row, because the cheapest number without its tier is a trap. Prices are per GPU per hour and exclude storage, egress and networking.

Affiliate disclosure

Some provider links are referral links. They never influence ordering: tables sort by price, and the cheapest verified rate wins whether or not the provider pays us anything.