NVIDIA A100 rental pricing

The cheapest NVIDIA A100 in stock right now is $0.55 per GPU-hour community from Vast.ai for the 1× A100 SXM4 configuration. The median on-demand rate across 22 providers is $1.60 per GPU-hour.

Running one NVIDIA A100 around the clock for a month (730 hours) costs about $402 at the cheapest in-stock rate of $0.55 per hour. At the median on-demand rate it is about $1,164 a month. Reserved terms usually come in below that; ask the provider for a quote.

Vast.ai has the cheapest NVIDIA A100 in stock right now at $0.55 per GPU-hour community for the 1× A100 SXM4 configuration. That is a community 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.

The weekly median on-demand rate for the NVIDIA A100 has been flat, moving 0.6% over the last 4 weeks, from $1.59 to $1.60 per GPU-hour.

On-demand is pay-as-you-go with no commitment. Spot is spare capacity sold at a discount that the provider can reclaim at short notice. Reserved is a committed term, usually months, in exchange for a lower rate. Community is capacity from individual hosts on a marketplace, cheaper and less uniform. This week's median rates for the NVIDIA A100 are on-demand $1.60 (23 providers), spot $1.14 (4 providers), reserved $1.63 (4 providers), community $0.73 (3 providers), per GPU-hour.

We track 25 providers with 84 live prices for the NVIDIA A100 across 4 variants. Sold-out listings stay in the table so you can see who normally carries it, but never set the cheapest figure.

The SXM4 is the cheapest NVIDIA A100 variant right now at $0.55 per GPU-hour. Cheapest in-stock rate per variant: SXM4 from $0.55, PCIe from $0.61, SXM4 from $0.61, PCIe from $0.87. The variants differ in memory, bandwidth and interconnect, so the cheapest card is not always the cheapest job.

With 8-bit weights and a single sequence of context, one NVIDIA A100 holds gpt-oss-20b (20.9B), Gemma 3 27B (27.4B), Qwen3-32B (32.8B), Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (70.6B). See the model fit table for the full ladder.

At its cheapest in-stock on-demand rate the NVIDIA A100 delivers dense FP16 compute at $3.49 per PFLOP-hour, which ranks 2 of 17 priced GPUs we cover on that basis. Lower is better: it is the rental price divided by peak FP16 throughput.

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 last 30 days. The newest listing was checked 5h ago.