The cheapest A100 PCIe on the table right now is $0.133 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai (spot), out of 20 offers from 8 providers. The A100 PCIe carries 80 GB of VRAM on NVIDIA's Ampere generation. That is peer/marketplace capacity — rented from other users' machines, and not directly comparable to a dedicated instance.
On-demand pricing for the same card spans $0.870 to $3.67 per GPU-hour — a 4.2× spread between the cheapest and the most expensive provider for identical silicon. That gap is the entire reason this table exists.
Cheapest by pricing model: on-demand $0.870 at Vast.ai · spot $0.133 at Vast.ai.
| Provider | Tier | $/GPU-hr | Pricing | Node | Commit | In stock | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.133 | spot | 1–4× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Azure | dedicated | $0.679 | spot | 1–4× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.870 | on-demand | 2× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.873 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.934 | on-demand | 4× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Runpod Community | marketplace | $1.19 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Runpod Community | marketplace | $1.19 | spot | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Prime Intellect | dedicated | $1.20 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Runpod | dedicated | $1.39 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Runpod | dedicated | $1.39 | spot | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Hyperstack | dedicated | $1.40 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Cudo Compute | dedicated | $1.50 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Crusoe | dedicated | $2.00 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Azure | dedicated | $3.67 | on-demand | 1–4× GPU | — | — | rent |
How much does an A100 PCIe cost per hour?
As of the latest scrape, $0.133 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai is the cheapest A100 PCIe offer across 8 tracked cloud providers. The cheapest on-demand rate is $0.870 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai, and the most expensive on-demand rate is $3.67 at Azure.
Which cloud is cheapest for the A100 PCIe?
Vast.ai at $0.133 per GPU-hour on spot capacity. Prices move constantly, so this page is regenerated from the live scrape every 15 minutes. Note that marketplace tiers are peer hardware and are not directly comparable to dedicated capacity.
Is spot A100 PCIe capacity cheaper?
Yes — the cheapest spot A100 PCIe is $0.133 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai, -85% versus the cheapest on-demand rate of $0.870. Spot instances can be reclaimed by the provider at any time, so they suit checkpointed training and batch inference rather than long-lived services.
How many GB of VRAM does the A100 PCIe have?
80 GB, on the Ampere architecture. Multi-GPU instances multiply that: an 8× A100 PCIe node exposes 640 GB of GPU memory in total.