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NVIDIA H200 rentalEdition of 12 Nov 2026

NVIDIA H200 rental

Glossary

Answer in brief

The 8 terms you meet when you read about NVIDIA H200 rental, each in one sentence, with an entry that says what it changes for a buyer.

Terms

  • H200

    The H200 is NVIDIA’s Hopper datacenter GPU with 141 GB of memory on one card.

  • Hopper

    Hopper is the NVIDIA GPU generation that includes the H100 and the H200, and it came before Blackwell.

  • GPU memory

    GPU memory is the memory on the card itself, where a model’s weights and working data must fit for the GPU to run it.

  • GPU-hour

    A GPU-hour is one GPU running for one hour, the unit in which every price on this site is given.

  • 8-GPU server

    An 8-GPU server is one machine with eight GPUs in it, rented as a whole and billed for all eight.

  • Spot

    A spot price is a discounted price for idle capacity that the provider can reclaim at short notice.

  • Commitment

    A commitment is a promise to pay for a GPU for a fixed term in return for a lower hourly rate.

  • Per-second billing

    Per-second billing charges for the exact time a machine ran, with no rounding up to the minute or the hour.

Questions and answers

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. Runcrate publishes this site.

It varies by provider, machine size and day. On 12 Nov 2026, listed on-demand H200 prices ran from $3.49 to $10.60 per GPU-hour, with a median of $5.40.

Sources for this entry

  1. Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills and the range of GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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. “Glossary.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://h200prices.com/glossary