The cheapest A100 SXM on the table right now is $0.389 per GPU-hour at Google Cloud (spot), out of 50 offers from 26 providers. The A100 SXM carries 80 GB of VRAM on NVIDIA's Ampere generation.
On-demand pricing for the same card spans $0.934 to $5.04 per GPU-hour — a 5.4× 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 $0.934 at Vast.ai · spot $0.389 at Google Cloud · reserved $0.956 at LeaderGPU.
| Provider | Tier | $/GPU-hr | Pricing | Node | Commit | In stock | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud | dedicated | $0.389 | spot | 1× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.400 | spot | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.533 | spot | 2, 4× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.934 | on-demand | 4× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.935 | on-demand | 2× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.937 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Azure | dedicated | $0.954 | spot | 8× GPU | — | — | rent |
| LeaderGPU | dedicated | $0.956 | reserved | 8× GPU | 1 mo | — | rent |
| Verda | dedicated | $0.978 | spot | 1–8× GPU | — | — | rent |
| GPU.ai | dedicated | $1.07 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Akash | marketplace | $1.07 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Thunder Compute * | dedicated | $1.09 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Seeweb | dedicated | $1.11 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Prime Intellect | dedicated | $1.23 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Hyperstack | dedicated | $1.35 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Massed Compute | dedicated | $1.35 | on-demand | 1–8× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Runpod Community | marketplace | $1.39 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Spheron | dedicated | $1.43 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Denvr Dataworks | dedicated | $1.45 | on-demand | 8× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Jarvis Labs | dedicated | $1.49 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Koyeb | dedicated | $1.60 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Runpod | dedicated | $1.79 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Civo | dedicated | $1.79 | on-demand | 1–8× GPU | — | — | rent |
| AWS | dedicated | $1.80 | spot | 8× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Verda | dedicated | $1.96 | on-demand | 1–8× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Crusoe | dedicated | $2.30 | on-demand | 8× GPU | — | — | rent |
| CoreWeave | dedicated | $2.70 | on-demand | 8× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Lambda Labs | dedicated | $2.79 | on-demand | 8× GPU | — | — | rent |
| OVHcloud | dedicated | $3.36 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | — | rent |
| AWS | dedicated | $3.43 | on-demand | 8× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Google Cloud | dedicated | $3.93 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Baseten | dedicated | $4.00 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Azure | dedicated | $4.10 | on-demand | 8× GPU | — | — | rent |
| Replicate | dedicated | $5.04 | on-demand | 1, 2× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Replicate | dedicated | $5.04 | reserved | 4, 8× GPU | — | yes | rent |
How much does an A100 SXM cost per hour?
As of the latest scrape, $0.389 per GPU-hour at Google Cloud is the cheapest A100 SXM offer across 26 tracked cloud providers. The cheapest on-demand rate is $0.934 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai, and the most expensive on-demand rate is $5.04 at Replicate.
Which cloud is cheapest for the A100 SXM?
Google Cloud at $0.389 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 SXM capacity cheaper?
Yes — the cheapest spot A100 SXM is $0.389 per GPU-hour at Google Cloud, -58% versus the cheapest on-demand rate of $0.934. 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 SXM have?
80 GB, on the Ampere architecture. Multi-GPU instances multiply that: an 8× A100 SXM node exposes 640 GB of GPU memory in total.