joulemathNVIDIA H100 rental price per hour, specs and profit per kW
Last updated November 11, 2026
Short answer: on November 11, 2026 one H100 SXM rented for a median $2.67 an hour on Vast.ai (3 offers), $2.69 on RunPod Community and $4.89 on Lambda (1x, published list). The Ornn index of real trades settled at $3.10 on November 10, down from $3.30 the day before. At $3.10 and 70% rented, one kW of H100 grosses about $52.08 a day. Here is the math.
How much does an H100 cost per hour right now?
| Source | Date | H100 SXM | H100 PCIe | Also |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ornn Compute Price Index (OCPI-H100) | Settled Nov 10, 2026, read Nov 11 | $3.10 | Not indexed | Nov 9 $3.30, Nov 5 $3.13 |
| RunPod Community Cloud | Page "Updated November 9, 2026", read Nov 11 | $2.69 | $1.99 | H100 NVL $2.59 |
| RunPod Secure Cloud | Same page | $3.99 | $2.89 | H100 NVL $3.19 |
| Lambda on-demand, 1x GPU | Read Nov 11, 2026, plus tax; page says these take effect Nov 16, 2026 | $4.89 | $3.79 | 8x $4.59, 4x $4.69, 2x $4.79 per GPU |
| Vast.ai marketplace, 1 GPU (low / median / high) | API query Nov 11, 2026, 11:03 CET | $2.00 / $2.67 / $4.60 (3 offers) | $2.47 (2 offers, both $2.47) | H100 NVL $2.34 / $2.67 / $3.42 (4 offers) |
Renter prices per GPU-hour. Our Vast query: rentable, on-demand, exactly one GPU; only 1 of the 3 SXM offers was a verified host ($4.60). Thin sample: three single-GPU SXM offers today, so the Vast median moves a lot day to day (it was $3.67 on Nov 6 and $3.54 on Nov 10). Other GPUs side by side: GPU rental prices.
What are the H100 SXM and PCIe specs?
| H100 SXM | H100 PCIe | |
|---|---|---|
| Max TDP | Up to 700 W (configurable) | 350 W |
| Memory | 80 GB | 80 GB HBM2e |
| Memory bandwidth | 3.35 TB/s | 2,000 GB/s |
| FP8 Tensor Core | 3,958 teraFLOPS* | Not covered here |
SXM: NVIDIA H100 product page, read Oct 22, 2026 (*with sparsity, per NVIDIA's footnote). PCIe: NVIDIA H100 PCIe product brief PB-11133-001 (maximum TDP 350 W). The current NVIDIA page lists the H100 NVL (350 to 400 W) as its PCIe option.
What did an H100 cost on October 26, 2026?
Our earlier read, kept so you can see the move.
| Source | Date | H100 SXM | H100 PCIe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ornn Compute Price Index (OCPI-H100) | H100 SXM, page "Updated October 25, 2026 at 20:00 UTC", read Oct 26, 2026 | $3.03 | Index of executed trades |
| RunPod Community Cloud | Page "Updated October 8, 2026", read Oct 26, 2026 | $2.69 | $1.99 |
| RunPod Secure Cloud | Same page | $3.99 | $2.89 |
| Lambda on-demand, 1x GPU | Read Oct 26, 2026, plus tax | $4.29 | $3.29 |
| Lambda on-demand, 8x GPU | Read Oct 26, 2026, plus tax | $3.99 | Not listed |
| Massed Compute, 1x H100 SXM5 | Read Oct 26, 2026 | $3.14 | Not checked |
| Together AI GPU clusters, on-demand | Read Oct 26, 2026 | $3.99 | Not listed |
| Nebius HGX H100, on-demand | Read Oct 26, 2026 | $4.50 | Not listed |
| CoreWeave HGX H100, 8 GPUs ($49.24/hr) | Read Oct 26, 2026; per GPU is our division | $6.16 | Not checked |
| Vast.ai marketplace, 1 GPU (low / median / high) | API query Oct 26, 2026, 09:06 CET | $1.93 / $3.20 / $9.10 (4 offers) | No offers |
These are what renters pay, not what a host nets after the platform cut. Vast is a live marketplace with only a handful of single H100 offers, so its median moves a lot. Our Vast query: rentable, on-demand, exactly one GPU. Side by side: what an H100 hour costs across 7 clouds (Oct 26). Older H200, A100 and RTX 4090 prices: Oct 21 post.
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What does one kW of H100 earn per day?
Our assumptions, not sourced: about 1,000 W per H100 SXM including its share of the server (so 1 kW is one GPU), rented 70% of hours, power paid for all 24 hours.
| Power price | Ornn index $3.10/hr | RunPod Community $2.69/hr | Vast median $2.67/hr |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross / kW / day | $52.08 | $45.19 | $44.86 |
| Net at $0.04/kWh | $51.12 | $44.23 | $43.90 |
| Net at $0.06/kWh | $50.64 | $43.75 | $43.42 |
| Net at $0.08/kWh | $50.16 | $43.27 | $42.94 |
| Net at $0.10/kWh | $49.68 | $42.79 | $42.46 |
Gross = rate × 24 × 70%. Net = gross minus 24 kWh of power. No platform cut, hosting, cooling markup or hardware cost. Our arithmetic on the prices above.
For scale: a kW of Antminer S21 XP (13.5 J/TH, Bitmain) grosses about $2.34 a day at the current hashprice. Hashprice $0.0316 per TH/s per day, computed November 11, 2026 at 11:52 UTC from the mempool.space API: BTC $74,003, difficulty 148.36 T, average reward 3.1447 BTC per block over the last 144 blocks.
Should you rent or buy an H100?
An 8x H100 SXM server was listed at $289,000 on Oct 13, 2026 (GYGO), about $36,125 per GPU. Mercatus puts typical 8x servers at $250,000 to $320,000 (Mercatus). Spread over 4 years (our assumption), $36,125 is about $1.03 per GPU-hour before power, hosting or financing.
So if you just need compute, renting at $2.67 to $3.10 an hour is simpler unless you keep the GPU busy most of the time for years. If you are a host with cheap power, the gap between that ~$1.03 hardware cost and a ~$3 rental rate is the business, and utilization decides whether you see it.
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H100 rental FAQ
How much does it cost to rent an H100?
On November 11, 2026: a median $2.67 per GPU-hour for one H100 SXM on Vast.ai (3 offers, $2.00 to $4.60), $2.69 on RunPod Community, $3.99 on RunPod Secure and $4.89 on Lambda 1x (published list; page says those take effect November 16, 2026). The Ornn index of real trades settled at $3.10 on November 10. On October 26 Nebius was $4.50 and CoreWeave's 8-GPU box worked out to $6.16 per GPU.
How much power does an H100 use?
NVIDIA lists the H100 SXM at up to 700 W max TDP and the H100 PCIe at 350 W. A full server draws more per GPU; we assume about 1,000 W per SXM GPU all-in.
What does one kW of H100 earn per day?
At the $3.10 Ornn rate (settled November 10, 2026) and 70% utilization, about $52.08 gross per kW per day, or about $50.64 after $0.06/kWh power. That is renter price, before platform cut and hardware.
How much does it cost to buy an H100?
About $31,250 to $40,000 per GPU based on 8x server listings and estimates of $250,000 to $320,000 per server, with one listing at $289,000 on October 13, 2026.
What is the difference between H100 SXM and PCIe?
SXM is the server-board version with up to 700 W and 3.35 TB/s of memory bandwidth. PCIe is a card with a 350 W max TDP and 2,000 GB/s. PCIe rents for less: $1.99 vs $2.69 on RunPod Community (page dated November 9, 2026).
Does H100 rental beat Bitcoin mining per kW?
On gross revenue per kW, yes by a wide margin at current prices. But a GPU kW needs far more hardware money and only earns when rented, while an ASIC earns every hour it is on.
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Prices change constantly; this page is updated by hand, last on November 11, 2026. Nothing here is financial advice.