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Nvidia A100 vs Nvidia H100

Nvidia A100 rents for 1.2x less per hour, but Nvidia H100 buys 2.7x more FP16 compute per dollar — the cheaper card is the dearer one per unit of work.

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Price

Price, side by side

Metric Nvidia A100 Nvidia H100
Cheapest listed $1.19 $1.39
Cheapest in stock $1.19 · Runpod $1.39 · Lium
Median across providers $1.49 $2.50
Most expensive listed $3.22 $5.99
Providers 12 17
Reporting stock 8 of 12 10 of 17
One month, 730 hours $869 $1,015

Listed rates from the last hourly check. Stock is what the provider reported at that moment.

Datasheet

Specs, side by side

Memory per GPUidentical
Memory bandwidth1.7x on the Nvidia H100
FP16 / BF16 dense3.2x on the Nvidia H100
GPU interconnect1.5x on the Nvidia H100
Board power2.3x less on the Nvidia A100

Vendors' own published numbers, dense rates without sparsity. A bar is drawn only where both cards publish the same figure.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Is the Nvidia A100 or the Nvidia H100 cheaper to rent?

The Nvidia A100 starts at $1.19 per GPU hour and the Nvidia H100 at $1.39. Nvidia A100 rents for 1.2x less per hour, but Nvidia H100 buys 2.7x more FP16 compute per dollar — the cheaper card is the dearer one per unit of work.

Which one can I actually get right now?

Nvidia A100: 8 of 12 providers report stock, cheapest in stock $1.19 at Runpod. Nvidia H100: 10 of 17 providers report stock, cheapest in stock $1.39 at Lium.

What does a month on each card cost?

Nvidia A100: $869 for 730 hours at its cheapest rate in stock. Nvidia H100: $1,015 for 730 hours at its cheapest rate in stock.