A100 reference price

What it measures#

One NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM, rented for one hour on the eight-GPU node, at the on-demand list price for Linux, in US dollars, across AWS p4de, Azure NDm A100 v4, Google Cloud a2-ultragpu-8g and Oracle. The 40GB A100 is a materially different product and is excluded rather than merged in.

This is the longest series on the site, monthly from December 2021, and the one that shows a full cycle: the price rose through 2022 and 2023 as demand outran supply and has stepped down since as newer parts arrived. It joined Market Data on 6 September 2026, when the site stopped being pinned to the two contracted GPUs; it had been priced and stored every month since the first snapshot.

How it is built#

In two steps, every month. Per region, GPUQuant takes the lowest eligible published price for the eight-GPU node and divides it by eight. Per provider, it averages that provider's regional prices, so a provider that publishes the A100 in forty regions counts no more than one that publishes it in six. The reference is the average of the provider figures, and the median is computed and stored beside it on every row.

A provider with no eligible offering is absent, never zero. A provider that has not republished holds its last price forward and is marked held. Google Cloud prices the accelerator separately from the machine, so its complete machine price is rebuilt from the GPU, core and memory SKUs before dividing; Oracle prices per GPU-hour for a whole shape and is used as published. The arithmetic is on The reference price and Normalization, and the calculation version is v4.

Publication#

Source

GPUQuant

Unit

USD / GPU-hour

Frequency

Monthly: the price lists are read daily, and a month’s figure is the last reading taken in it

Ticker

None; a GPUQuant figure

What GPUQuant shows#

The whole history, from the first month GPUQuant priced the part, with every provider's own regional average as a row under the reference, the provider comparison and every regional offering behind it under the chart, and the change log of every list-price move dated to the provider's own effective date. Nothing is licensed and nothing is windowed: every figure has a URL behind it.

On Market Data as GPUQuant Reference under A100.

Reading it beside the others#

• Silicon Data A100 index: Silicon Data's modelled figure, which counts negotiated and committed-use deals and sits below any list price.
• Ornn A100 index: Ornn's transacted figure, the prices A100 rentals actually cleared at.
• A100 forward curve: What the market expects the A100 rental index to be out to three years.
• A100 residual value: What one A100 is still worth, from that curve.

Sources#

• Data sources, the provider price lists every figure is read from.
• Coverage, which provider publishes the part where, and every exclusion with its reason.
• Time and coverage, how a held price and a missing provider are shown.