AMD Instinct MI250 rental pricing
CDNA 2 architecture · 128 GB HBM2e memory · 3.3 TB/s bandwidth · 500 W board power · Released 2021
Price history
Weekly median price per GPU per hour
At a glance
prices checked 2h ago- Cheapest in stock
- $1.28/hr
- Reserved · 4× Instinct MI250 128GB · Cirrascale
- 90-day trend
- Too early
- Since Sep '26 · fills in as prices are checked
- Coverage
- 1 provider
- 4 price points
Every provider we track
Cheapest listing per provider and pricing type. Sold-out rows stay so you can see who normally carries it.
| Provider | Configuration | Price/GPU-hr | Checked | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Cirrascale | 4× Instinct MI250 128GB Reserved | $1.28 | 2h ago | View → |
Per GPU-hour. Spot, reserved and community pricing differ from on-demand; click through for the provider's current figure.
What can the AMD Instinct MI250 run?
Memory for the weights plus one sequence of context, how many GPUs hold it, and what that replica costs at the cheapest in-stock on-demand rate.
| Model | Params | Memory | GPUs | $/hr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss-20b OpenAI | 20.9B· 3.6B active | 20 GiB | 1 | — |
| Gemma 3 27B Google | 27.4B | 26 GiB | 1 | — |
| Qwen3-32B Alibaba | 32.8B | 32 GiB | 1 | — |
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Meta | 70.6B | 67 GiB | 1 | — |
| gpt-oss-120b OpenAI | 117B· 5.1B active | 109 GiB | 1 | — |
| Qwen3-235B-A22B Alibaba | 235B· 22.0B active | 220 GiB | 2 | — |
| DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek | 684B· 37.0B active | 638 GiB | 8 | — |
| Kimi K3 Moonshot AI | 2.78T· 104B active | 2.53 TiB | Over 16 | — |
Sized for one sequence at 4K context with 16-bit KV cache and 10% of memory held back. Serving many users at once needs more; the LLM GPU calculator sizes for concurrency and throughput.
AMD Instinct MI250 pricing questions
How much does it cost to rent a AMD Instinct MI250 per hour?
The cheapest AMD Instinct MI250 in stock right now is $1.28 per GPU-hour reserved from Cirrascale for the 4× Instinct MI250 128GB configuration.
How much does a AMD Instinct MI250 cost per month?
Running one AMD Instinct MI250 around the clock for a month (730 hours) costs about $934 at the cheapest in-stock rate of $1.28 per hour. Reserved terms usually come in below that; ask the provider for a quote.
Which provider has the cheapest AMD Instinct MI250?
Cirrascale has the cheapest AMD Instinct MI250 in stock right now at $1.28 per GPU-hour reserved for the 4× Instinct MI250 128GB configuration. That is a reserved rate; see the provider table for the cheapest on-demand listing. Rates change often, so check the provider table for today's figure before you commit.
Are AMD Instinct MI250 rental prices going up or down?
We have 5 weeks of price history for the AMD Instinct MI250, not yet enough like-for-like weeks to call a trend: the set of providers we track is still growing, and a median over more sellers is not a price move. The chart above fills in as our daily checks accumulate.
How many cloud providers rent the AMD Instinct MI250?
We track 1 provider with 4 live prices for the AMD Instinct MI250. Sold-out listings stay in the table so you can see who normally carries it, but never set the cheapest figure.
What LLMs can you run on one AMD Instinct MI250?
With 8-bit weights and a single sequence of context, one AMD Instinct MI250 holds gpt-oss-20b (20.9B), Gemma 3 27B (27.4B), Qwen3-32B (32.8B), Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (70.6B), gpt-oss-120b (117B). See the model fit table for the full ladder.
Where does this AMD Instinct MI250 pricing data come from?
Prices are read daily from each provider's public price list or API and recorded whenever they change. Listings are shown per GPU-hour on-demand unless marked otherwise, and the chart covers the period since sep '26. The newest listing was checked 2h ago.