Hyperscale cloud · H200 entry
Google Cloud: H200 price per hour
Google Cloud lists 1 current on-demand H200 configuration. The lowest solid one, 8× at $10.60 per GPU-hour, ranks 15 of 15 providers against a median of $5.40. Read 2026-11-12.
Google Cloud, at a glance
- Lowest solid on-demand
- $10.60 per GPU-hour
- In that configuration
- 8×
- Per server-hour
- $84.81
- Rank
- 15 of 15
- Against the median
- +96% ($5.40)
- Billing
- not stated
Entries
Every H200 row for Google Cloud
Per server-hour is the GPU price times the GPUs in the configuration. Chips mark marketplace figures and prices that start later.
| Configuration | Billing | Per GPU-hour | Per server-hour | Region | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8× · a3-ultragpu-8g (224 vCPU, 2,952GB RAM) | not stated | $10.60 | $84.81 | not stated | 2026-11-12 | page |
Recorded with the prices
- Derived: $84.8069 / 8 GPUs = $10.6009 per GPU per hour. Page states one hourly price for the whole machine type, which bundles GPUs, vCPUs, memory and local SSD (not GPU-only). Column: Price (USD). Region not captured (page has a region selector).
Position
Where Google Cloud sits on the ladder
The highlighted rung is Google Cloud. Other rungs link to their own ledger page.
Google Cloud is rung 15 of 15. The rung below is Oracle Cloud at $10.00, $0.60 less per GPU-hour. It is the highest rung.
Against the median of $5.40, Google Cloud is $5.20 over per GPU-hour, 96% above. Over a 720-hour month one GPU at Google Cloud's rate costs $7,632.62; at the median it would cost $3,888.00.
A rung is a provider's lowest solid price, whatever the size of the configuration, so a single-GPU price and an 8-GPU price share the scale. The table above shows the size behind each figure.
- Civo$3.49lowest
- Massed Compute$3.62+$0.13
- Hyperstack$3.99+$0.37
- Crusoe$4.29+$0.30
- DigitalOcean (Paperspace)$4.47+$0.18
- Runcrateours, live$4.67+$0.20
- RunPod$5.29+$0.62
- Median of 15 providers$5.40
- Nebius$5.40+$0.11
- Together AI$5.99+$0.59
- OVHcloud$6.20+$0.21
- CoreWeave$6.30+$0.11
- Verda$6.50+$0.20
- Amazon Web Services$7.91+$1.41
- Oracle Cloud$10.00+$2.09
- Google Cloud$10.60+$0.60
Commitments
Spot and reserved listings
Spot and reserved prices are different products. They sit apart from the on-demand statistics.
| Type | Configuration | Per GPU-hour | Per 720-hour month | Against its on-demand low | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| spot | 8× · a3-ultragpu-8g (224 vCPU, 2,952GB RAM) | $6.36 | $4,578.40 | -40% | page |
The comparison column divides each commitment price by this provider's lowest solid on-demand price ($10.60). Sizes can differ between rows, so read it as a guide.
Stated by the provider
What Google Cloud says about itself
- Machine types have a 1-minute minimum usage charge. source
- GPU machine types are billed for attached GPUs, predefined vCPU, memory and bundled Local SSD. source
Only facts printed on a page we read are listed. Pricing page: https://cloud.google.com/products/compute/pricing/accelerator-optimized
Questions
Google Cloud and the H200, answered
- How much does Google Cloud charge for an H200 per hour?
- $10.60 per GPU-hour for its lowest solid on-demand configuration (8×, a3-ultragpu-8g (224 vCPU, 2,952GB RAM)), read 2026-11-12. It is the only current row.
- How much is an 8-GPU H200 server at Google Cloud?
- $10.60 per GPU times 8 = $84.81 per hour, $2,035.37 per day and $61,060.97 per 720-hour month.
- Is Google Cloud below the median?
- No: its lowest solid price is 96% above the median of $5.40 across 15 providers ($5.20 over).
- How does Google Cloud bill H200 time?
- The pages we read do not state a billing granularity for these rows. The provider's own pricing page says: 1-minute minimum.
- Does Google Cloud list spot or reserved H200 prices?
- Yes: spot $6.36 per GPU-hour (8×, a3-ultragpu-8g (224 vCPU, 2,952GB RAM)). These are not mixed into the on-demand statistics.
- Where do these numbers come from?
- 1 page on Google Cloud's own site or public price feed, each linked in the ledger above with its read date. The stored prices were last read 12 November 2026. For this provider the recorded note says the instance price includes vCPUs and memory, so the per-GPU figure is not a GPU-only price.
Disclosure
H200 Price Ledger is published by the Runcrate team, who also run Runcrate, an AI cloud. Runcrate is listed in the table for H200, marked "ours, live". It is sorted by price like every other row, with no pinned position. Other providers' prices are read from their own public pricing pages. We have no paid placement.