Glossary
Spot
Answer in brief
A spot price is a discounted price for idle capacity that the provider can reclaim at short notice.
Spot in practice
It suits jobs that save their progress and can restart. It does not suit a model that answers users, because the machine can go in the middle of a request.
Compare spot prices with other spot prices only. The tables on this site list on-demand prices.
Questions and answers
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A spot price is a discounted price for idle capacity that the provider can reclaim at short notice.
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. “Spot.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://h200prices.com/glossary/spot