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GPU Rental Cost Calculator
Rented H100s look cheap by the hour. Run a real training job and the bill goes from $2/hr to $20K fast.
Total cost
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- GPU-hours
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- + 20% spot risk
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FAQ
Spot vs on-demand? +
Spot is 50-70% cheaper but can be reclaimed. Use spot for restart-friendly training (checkpointing every 30 min) and on-demand for inference.
Where to rent cheapest? +
Lambda Labs, RunPod, Vast.ai for spot. AWS/GCP/Azure for production with SLAs. As of 2026, H100s on spot run $1.80-2.50/hr from smaller providers.