On-demand, spot and reserved H200 prices

You start the machine when you need it and stop it when you are done. You pay for the time between. Nobody can take the machine from you while it runs, and nothing is owed after you stop it.

It is the highest of the three prices and the only one that needs no reading of terms.

Spot is idle capacity at a discount. The provider keeps the right to reclaim the machine at short notice. That works for jobs that save their progress and can pick up again. It does not work for a model that answers users.

Spot listings for the H200 do appear. Treat each as a price for interruptible work only.

A reserved price trades a lower hourly rate for a commitment. The term may be a month or several years, and it is often paid ahead. Every hour of the term is billed, whether the card worked or not.

The sum to do is plain. Multiply the reserved rate by all the hours in the term. Compare that with the on-demand cost of the hours you would really run.

The tables here list on-demand prices, because they are the only ones that compare across providers without conditions. On 12 Nov 2026, on-demand H200 prices listed here ran from $3.49 to $10.60 per GPU-hour.

If a provider shows a reserved or spot figure first, look for the on-demand figure before you compare it with anything on this site.

Uneven use, a few hours on some days, belongs on demand with a small billing unit. Work that can be interrupted and restarts cleanly can go on spot, if you count the work lost each time. Steady use, most hours of most days for a month or more, belongs on a term.

If you do not yet know your hours, start on demand and measure for two weeks. The answer will be in the bill.

Runcrate sells on-demand GPUs billed by the second on most models, and booting is never billed. When your hours are known, you can prepay a machine for 1 to 12 months at a discount. Runcrate can start an H200 now from $4.67 per GPU-hour.

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