H200 vs A100 SXM4 rental price
H200 settles at $5.04 and A100 SXM4 at $0.90 (October 6, 2026): the H200 premium is $4.14 per GPU-hour, 5.6× the A100 SXM4 price.
| H200 | A100 SXM4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Settled ($/GPU-hr) | $5.04 | $0.90 |
| Settlement date | October 6, 2026 | October 6, 2026 |
| Per GPU-day | $120.96 | $21.60 |
| Per 30-day month | $3628.80 | $648.00 |
| 1-day change | -3.6% | -2.2% |
| 7-day change | +2.0% | -2.2% |
| 30-day change | +12.8% | -15.1% |
| Architecture | Hopper | Ampere |
| Memory | 141 GB HBM3e | 80 GB HBM2e |
| $/hr per GB of memory capacity | $0.0357 | $0.0112 |
Day and month figures are the hourly settle times 24 and 720. Changes are against each index’s own settle 1, 7 and 30 days earlier.
H200 vs A100 SXM4 spread history
Daily settles in USD per GPU-hour on dates both indices settled, most recent first. Spread is H200 minus A100 SXM4; ratio is H200 divided by A100 SXM4.
| Date | H200 | A100 SXM4 | Spread | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 6 | $5.04 | $0.90 | $4.14 | 5.60× |
| Oct 5 | $5.23 | $0.92 | $4.31 | 5.68× |
| Oct 4 | $5.57 | $0.88 | $4.69 | 6.33× |
| Oct 3 | $6.05 | $0.90 | $5.15 | 6.72× |
| Oct 2 | $6.23 | $0.90 | $5.33 | 6.92× |
| Oct 1 | $5.96 | $0.93 | $5.03 | 6.41× |
| Sep 30 | $5.58 | $0.88 | $4.70 | 6.34× |
| Sep 29 | $4.94 | $0.92 | $4.02 | 5.37× |
| Sep 28 | $4.84 | $0.91 | $3.93 | 5.32× |
| Sep 27 | $4.62 | $0.91 | $3.71 | 5.08× |
| Sep 26 | $4.78 | $0.95 | $3.83 | 5.03× |
| Sep 25 | $5.08 | $1.02 | $4.06 | 4.98× |
| Sep 24 | $5.16 | $1.02 | $4.14 | 5.06× |
| Sep 23 | $5.02 | $1.03 | $3.99 | 4.87× |
| Sep 22 | $4.94 | $1.02 | $3.92 | 4.84× |
| Sep 21 | $5.07 | $0.99 | $4.08 | 5.12× |
| Sep 20 | $5.22 | $0.97 | $4.25 | 5.38× |
| Sep 19 | $5.13 | $0.99 | $4.14 | 5.18× |
| Sep 18 | $5.60 | $1.00 | $4.60 | 5.60× |
| Sep 17 | $5.16 | $1.01 | $4.15 | 5.11× |
| Sep 16 | $5.27 | $1.05 | $4.22 | 5.02× |
| Sep 15 | $4.68 | $1.02 | $3.66 | 4.59× |
| Sep 14 | $4.60 | $1.02 | $3.58 | 4.51× |
| Sep 13 | $4.38 | $1.03 | $3.35 | 4.25× |
| Sep 12 | $4.69 | $1.03 | $3.66 | 4.55× |
| Sep 11 | $5.12 | $0.99 | $4.13 | 5.17× |
| Sep 10 | $4.93 | $0.98 | $3.95 | 5.03× |
| Sep 9 | $4.91 | $0.98 | $3.93 | 5.01× |
| Sep 8 | $4.91 | $1.02 | $3.89 | 4.81× |
| Sep 7 | $4.56 | $1.05 | $3.51 | 4.34× |
Which is cheaper per hour, H200 or A100 SXM4?
A100 SXM4 is cheaper. It settles at $0.90 per GPU-hour against $5.04 for the H200 as of October 6, 2026, a gap of $4.14 per GPU-hour, $99.36 per GPU-day, or about $2980.80 per GPU over a 30-day month.
How has the H200 premium over A100 SXM4 moved over 30 days?
Thirty days earlier the H200 settled at $4.47 and the A100 SXM4 at $1.06, a spread of $3.41 per GPU-hour. As of October 6, 2026 it is $4.14, so the H200 premium has widened by $0.73.
Which is cheaper per GB of memory capacity, H200 or A100 SXM4?
A100 SXM4 is cheaper per GB. Dividing the settled hourly price by on-board memory, the H200 (141 GB HBM3e) costs $0.0357 per GB of capacity per hour and the A100 SXM4 (80 GB HBM2e) $0.0112, as of October 6, 2026. Capacity only: memory type and bandwidth differ (HBM2e, HBM3, HBM3e), so this is not a throughput comparison.
When does the H200 pay off over the A100 SXM4?
At current settles the H200 costs 5.6× the A100 SXM4 per hour, so it pays off only on work where it gets through more than 5.6× as much per hour as the A100 SXM4; below that, the A100 SXM4 finishes the same job for less. The H200 also carries 1.8× the memory (141 GB HBM3e against 80 GB HBM2e); where memory capacity rather than GPU count sets the job size, compare cost per job, not per GPU-hour. Ornn publishes prices, not benchmarks: test the throughput ratio on your own workload.
Where can I rent H200 or A100 SXM4 GPUs?
Ornn Compute (compute.ornn.com) reserves dedicated NVIDIA H200 and NVIDIA A100 SXM4 capacity across verified neocloud providers, priced against the same settled OCPI-H200 and OCPI-A100 indices published on this page, with access in minutes. Reservations can be resold on a secondary market if requirements change, so unused capacity is recoverable rather than sunk. Ornn both prices compute and rents it.
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Ornn Data. H200 vs A100 SXM4: OCPI-H200 and OCPI-A100 settled rental prices. Settled October 6, 2026.
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