NVIDIA A100 80GB rental price per hour
80GB HBM2e VRAM · Ampere architecture · released 2021
The cheapest way to rent an NVIDIA A100 80GB by the hour in June 2026 is about $0.74/hr on Vast.ai. We track 12 providers publishing an on-demand price for it , and spot/community rates reach as low as $0.35/hr. Cost-effective training and inference for mid-sized models. Still a strong value pick now that Hopper/Blackwell have pushed A100 prices down.
Source: Provider pricing pages. Data as of June 2026.
NVIDIA A100 80GB price by provider
| Provider | Type | On-demand /hr | Spot/community /hr | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.74/hr | $0.35/hr | Marketplace median (SXM); lows ~$0.35. Host-set. |
| Hyperstack | specialist | $1.35/hr | $1.08/hr | PCIe on-demand $1.35 (SXM $1.60); spot $1.08. |
| RunPod | specialist | $1.39/hr | — | PCIe $1.39, SXM $1.49 Secure Cloud; Community cheaper. |
| Verda (formerly DataCrunch) | specialist | $1.79/hr | — | On-demand. |
| Crusoe | specialist | $2.00/hr | — | PCIe $2.00; SXM $2.30 on-demand. |
| Vultr Cloud GPU | specialist | $2.40/hr | — | PCIe single-GPU $2.397; HGX A100 per GPU $2.80. |
| CoreWeave | specialist | $2.70/hr | — | SXM, per GPU. |
| Lambda | specialist | $2.79/hr | — | SXM on-demand. |
| Paperspace (DigitalOcean) | specialist | $3.18/hr | — | Legacy Paperspace machine ($3.18; 3-yr $1.15). |
| AWS EC2 | hyperscaler | $3.43/hr | $1.41/hr | Derived: p4de.24xlarge $27.45/hr / 8 GPUs (SXM). |
| Microsoft Azure | hyperscaler | $3.67/hr | $0.82/hr | NC A100 v4 (1 GPU PCIe) $3.67/hr. |
| Google Cloud | hyperscaler | $5.07/hr | $2.53/hr | a2-ultragpu-1g (1 GPU) $5.07/hr. |
| Nebius | specialist | — | — | Not listed. |
| Together AI | specialist | — | — | Not offered (current-gen only). |
Source: Provider pricing pages. Data as of June 2026.
Sorted cheapest on-demand first; "—" means the provider does not publish a price for this GPU (see the note). Snapshot June 2026 — cloud GPU prices change weekly; verify on the provider's pricing page before relying on a figure.
About the NVIDIA A100 80GB
Cost-effective training and inference for mid-sized models. Still a strong value pick now that Hopper/Blackwell have pushed A100 prices down.
- VRAM: 80GB HBM2e
- Architecture: Ampere
- Released: 2021
- Cheapest on-demand: $0.74/hr on Vast.ai
- Cheapest spot/community: $0.35/hr on Vast.ai
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to rent an NVIDIA A100 80GB per hour?
The cheapest on-demand NVIDIA A100 80GB we track is $0.74/hr on Vast.ai, with 12 providers publishing a price. Spot/community rates go as low as $0.35/hr. Snapshot June 2026 — cloud GPU prices change weekly; verify on the provider's pricing page before relying on a figure.
Which provider is cheapest for the NVIDIA A100 80GB?
Vast.ai at $0.74/hr is the cheapest on-demand option in our June 2026 snapshot. Specialist neoclouds and marketplaces usually beat the hyperscalers (AWS/GCP/Azure) by 2-4x on the same GPU.
What is the NVIDIA A100 80GB good for?
Cost-effective training and inference for mid-sized models. Still a strong value pick now that Hopper/Blackwell have pushed A100 prices down. It has 80GB HBM2e of VRAM and uses the Ampere architecture (released 2021).
Is spot or on-demand cheaper for the NVIDIA A100 80GB?
Spot, community and interruptible tiers can cut the NVIDIA A100 80GB price roughly in half — the cheapest discounted rate we track is $0.35/hr versus $0.74/hr on-demand. The trade-off is your instance can be reclaimed, so use spot for fault-tolerant or checkpointed jobs.
Related GPUs
- NVIDIA A100 40GB (40GB HBM2)
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Source & accuracy
Figures are a dated snapshot from each provider's published pricing page (as of June 2026). Hyperscaler per-GPU prices are derived from 8-GPU instance prices (instance price / 8) and include bundled vCPU/RAM; marketplace (Vast.ai) figures are moving medians, not list prices. We do not invent numbers — where a value is unknown we show "—" with a reason. See our methodology. This is an informational comparison, not a quote.
Last updated: 2026-06-21