H200 against A100 80GB · 141 GB and 80 GB
H200 vs A100 80GB: what the price gap buys
At the lowest solid price an H200 is $3.49 per GPU-hour and an A100 80GB is $1.09: 220% more for the H200. The H200 carries 141 GB of memory against 80 GB, so per GB of VRAM it is 82% dearer. Read 12 November 2026.
- H200 lowest
- $3.49
- A100 80GB lowest
- $1.09
- Median gap
- +185%
Civo
Thunder Compute
$5.40 vs $1.90
H200
15 providers
A100 80GB
12 providers
Price
The two price ranges, side by side
Solid on-demand rows only. Marketplace figures and announced prices are left out of both columns.
| Per GPU-hour | H200 | A100 80GB | H200 against A100 80GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Providers with a price | 15 | 12 | +3 |
| Lowest | $3.49 | $1.09 | +220% |
| Median of provider lows | $5.40 | $1.90 | +185% |
| Highest | $10.60 | $3.43 | +209% |
| Highest over lowest | 3.0× | 3.1× | |
| Lowest at | Civo | Thunder Compute | |
| Highest at | Google Cloud | Amazon Web Services |
The lowest H200 price is $2.40 above the lowest A100 80GB price. 0 of the 15 H200 providers list at or under the A100 80GB median of $1.90.
Memory
Memory, bandwidth and price per GB
VRAM is the catalogued size. Bandwidth and the maker's memory figure come from the maker's spec page, linked on each row. Nothing stated as missing is filled in.
| GPU | Variant | Memory, maker table | Type | Bandwidth | Lowest price per TB/s-hour | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H200 | SXM | 141 GB | HBM3e | 4.8 TB/s | $0.73 | page |
| H200 | NVL | 141 GB | HBM3e | 4.8 TB/s | $0.73 | page |
| A100 80GB | PCIe | 80 GB | HBM2e | 1.935 TB/s | $0.56 | page |
| A100 80GB | SXM | 80 GB | HBM2e | 2.039 TB/s | $0.53 | page |
H200 · 141 GB catalogued
$0.0248
per GB-hour at the lowest price: $3.49 ÷ 141 GB
At the median: $0.0383 ($5.40 ÷ 141 GB)
A100 80GB · 80 GB catalogued
$0.0136
per GB-hour at the lowest price: $1.09 ÷ 80 GB
At the median: $0.0237 ($1.90 ÷ 80 GB)
Price per GB-hour is a derivation: the price per GPU-hour divided by catalogued memory. It says nothing about speed, and memory is not the only reason to pick a card. The H200 carries 1.76 times the memory of the A100 80GB.
Fit check
Three model sizes against each card
Weights only: parameters times bytes per parameter. No KV cache, activations or framework overhead. The full table is on the memory page.
| Scenario | Weights | H200s needed | A100 80GBs needed | H200 per hour | A100 80GB per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70B model at FP16 | 140 GB | 1 | 2 | $3.49 | $2.18 |
| 70B model at FP8 | 70 GB | 1 | 1 | $3.49 | $1.09 |
| 405B model at FP8 | 405 GB | 3 | 6 | $10.47 | $6.54 |
GPUs needed = weights ÷ catalogued VRAM, rounded up. Cost = GPUs needed × the lowest solid price per GPU-hour ($3.49 for the H200, $1.09 for the A100 80GB). Real deployments need headroom and servers come in fixed sizes.
Same provider
Providers that list both
One row per provider: its lowest solid H200 price and its lowest solid A100 80GB price. Sizes can differ, so the gap is a guide.
| Provider | H200 | A100 80GB | Gap per GPU-hour | H200 against A100 80GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Civo | $3.49 | $1.79 | +$1.70 | +95% |
| OVHcloud | $6.20 | $3.07 | +$3.13 | +102% |
| Crusoe | $4.29 | $2.00 | +$2.29 | +115% |
| Amazon Web Services | $7.91 | $3.43 | +$4.48 | +131% |
| CoreWeave | $6.30 | $2.70 | +$3.60 | +134% |
| Massed Compute | $3.62 | $1.35 | +$2.27 | +168% |
| Runcrateours, live | $4.67 | $1.73 | +$2.94 | +170% |
| Verda | $6.50 | $2.34 | +$4.16 | +178% |
| RunPod | $5.29 | $1.79 | +$3.50 | +196% |
| Hyperstack | $3.99 | $1.35 | +$2.64 | +196% |
Listed for the H200 only: DigitalOcean (Paperspace), Nebius, Together AI, Oracle Cloud, and Google Cloud. Listed for the A100 80GB only: Thunder Compute and Vultr.
Questions
H200 and A100 80GB, answered
- Is an H200 more expensive than an A100 80GB?
- By the lowest solid price, the H200 is 220% above the A100 80GB ($3.49 at Civo against $1.09 at Thunder Compute). By the median of each provider's lowest, $5.40 against $1.90, the H200 is 185% above.
- Which costs less per GB of memory?
- At the lowest listed price the H200 is $0.0248 per GB-hour ($3.49 ÷ 141 GB) and the A100 80GB is $0.0136 ($1.09 ÷ 80 GB). At the medians, $0.0383 against $0.0237. VRAM is the catalogued size of each card.
- Which providers list both?
- 10 of them: Civo, OVHcloud, Crusoe, Amazon Web Services, CoreWeave, Massed Compute, Runcrate, Verda, RunPod, and Hyperstack. At every one the H200 costs more than the A100 80GB; the gap runs from +95% to +196%.
- Does the H200 need fewer GPUs for the same model?
- For weights only, a 70B model at FP16 is 140 GB: 1 H200 against 2 A100 80GBs. At the lowest solid prices that is $3.49 against $2.18 per hour. This ignores the KV cache, activations and framework overhead.
- Where do the memory and bandwidth figures come from?
- Memory size is the catalogued VRAM. Bandwidth is from the maker's own spec pages, linked in the table above (www.nvidia.com). A figure the maker does not state stays "not stated" and gets no derived price.
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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.