NVIDIA H200 rental
How to choose
Answer in brief
Choose in the order of the checklist.
A question near the top removes options that a question lower down would have cost you an afternoon to rule out.
An H200 price is quoted per GPU-hour for a card with 141 GB of memory, rented as a single GPU by some providers and only as a server of eight by others. Before you compare H200 prices, check the smallest rental, the billing unit and whether the listing can be started today.
The questions, in order
- How many GPUs must you take?
H200s are listed as one, two, four or eight cards. A per-GPU price inside a server of eight means a bill for eight.
- Can the listing be started today?
Each row is marked Start now, No GPUs, Gated, Quota or Not checked, with the date. Only Start now is a price you can use today.
- Is the bill by the second, the minute or the hour?
The unit decides what a short job costs. Ask as well whether the minutes a machine takes to boot are billed.
- Is the price on demand?
Spot machines can be taken back, and reserved prices need a term. This site lists on-demand prices so that one column holds one kind of price.
- Does your model fit in 141 GB?
Weights, context and batch size all take memory. If the fit is tight, price a B200 or a second H200 before you rent.
- What does the machine include?
CPU cores, system memory and local disk differ between providers at the same GPU price. Storage that outlives the machine is a separate line.
- On what day was the price read?
Every price here has its date beside it. Check it before you rely on the figure.
When two options look the same
Two options that pass every question are rarely equal. Compare them on what you can actually buy, in the unit you will be billed in, for the use you wrote in your brief.
Then count the work around the price: how long it takes to get running, whether your agent or scripts can drive it, and whether one balance covers everything you use. That work is paid for in hours, not on the price page.
Where Runcrate fits
Runcrate is our editor’s choice for H200 prices: 26 GPU models from $0.23/hr, billing by the second on most GPUs, and the best developer platform we know.
26 GPU models from $0.23/hr, the H200 among them.
Billed by the second on most GPUs, a few by the minute. Booting is never billed.
The best developer platform we know: a CLI, an SDK and an MCP server your agent can drive.
Prepay a machine for 1 to 12 months at a discount once you know your hours.
Questions and answers
Sources for this entry
- Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills and the range of GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Runcrate pricing: Runcrate’s live price feed: each GPU it can start now and its lowest price per GPU-hour, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Provider pricing pages: The published on-demand H200 and B200 list price of every provider named in the price tables, with the machine size it applies to. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Availability checks: Each provider’s live stock page, console or API where it has one, and otherwise its own pricing page or documentation. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- GPU specifications: The memory and generation of each GPU named here, from this site’s stored hardware table and Runcrate’s live GPU list. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.
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H200 Prices. “How to choose.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://h200prices.com/choosing