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ComputeTape H100 Index · CT-H100

What does an on-demand H100 cost per hour?

The ComputeTape H100 Index is the median verified on-demand H100 GPU list price across sourced providers — a single number you can cite, chart, and embed. Directional, not exchange-traded.

$4.12/ H100-hourFlat · 24h

Median on-demand list price across 8 sourced providers · as of September 17, 2026 · methodology

Spot median
$2.46 normalized estimate
Blended H100e
$4.66 normalized estimate
Weekly move
-21.1%Composition changed

Why it moved: 2 providers entered the eligible sample. No unchanged-provider price movement was recorded.

Published index change
-21.1%
Same-provider change (6 in both periods)
0.0%
Historical corrections (1)

July 29, 2026August 6, 2026 (8 daily values): CT-H100 was published at $6.52 across 4 providers. The corrected value is $5.22 across 6 providers.

A single 30-day editorial-review clock dropped Crusoe and Lambda from the eligible sample on 2026-07-29. Both rows were being re-scraped and confirmed unchanged every morning, and neither price moved during the affected window; only the review metadata had lapsed. Because review expiry sheds cheap long-tail neoclouds faster than vendor-fed hyperscalers, the surviving four-provider sample was biased upward.

All six constituents were re-verified live on 2026-08-07 and every price reconciled unchanged. Editorial review was renewed and the eligibility gate now runs separate clocks for automated price checks and editorial review.

Issued August 7, 2026. Restated points keep their superseded value in the downloadable history as restated_from_median.

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The 8 prices behind the median

Each is a verified on-demand H100 list price, normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate. Full per-provider detail and sorting are in the Provider Directory.

ProviderOn-demand $/H100-hrRegionConfidenceSource
Hyperstack$3.20Multi-regionHighPrice page
Cyfuture AI$3.66IN, US & EUHighPrice page
Crusoe$3.90Multi-regionHighPrice page
Daytona$3.95Multi-regionHighPrice page
Lambda$4.29Multi-regionHighPrice page
CoreWeave$6.16usHighPrice page
AWS$6.88us-east-1HighPrice page
Azure$12.29eastusHighPrice page

How it's built

How the index is built

The headline is a raw median of verified on-demand H100 list prices — one per provider, each checked against the provider's public price page and normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate. The spot and blended H100-equivalent figures are normalized estimates derived from public provider data, shown for context and clearly labeled as estimates — never presented as quoted prices. See the full methodology.

ComputeTape tracks directional AI compute market signals, not exchange-traded prices. Use the index as a market indicator, not investment advice. More signals — enterprise compute cost, model serving cost, GPU availability — available on the Market page.