The H100 SXM median rental rate rose 1.2% week-over-week, moving from $3.25 to $3.29 per GPU-hour, according to AIMC observations. That narrow headline move obscures meaningful dispersion across individual marketplaces: the spread between the lowest and highest observed ask prices this week spans more than $0.80 per GPU-hour, a gap that carries material implications for operators sourcing at scale. The analysis that follows breaks down H100 SXM pricing marketplace by marketplace, documents the specific rate each venue is posting, and quantifies how far each sits from the $3.29 median. The data covers the seven-day window ending this reporting period and reflects listed rates as observed, without normalization for contract length or reserved versus on-demand tier distinctions.
This Week in Numbers
- Focus SKU: H100 SXM
- Week-over-week move: +1.2% ($3.25 → $3.29 median across covered marketplaces)
- Marketplace coverage: 19 marketplaces, 322 observations this week
- Price range: $1.89/hr at upcloud to $10.00/hr at huggingface
AIMC tracked H100 SXM across 19 authorized marketplaces this week. Full partner list at aiminingco.com/data-partners.
H100 SXM — Pricing by Marketplace
| Marketplace | Min | Median | Max | Observations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| upcloud | $1.89 | $1.89 | $1.89 | 7 |
| dataoorts | $1.92 | $1.92 | $1.92 | 7 |
| ionet | $2.09 | $2.09 | $2.09 | 7 |
| deepinfra | $2.20 | $2.20 | $2.20 | 7 |
| theta | $2.29 | $2.29 | $2.29 | 7 |
| akash | $2.56 | $2.56 | $2.56 | 7 |
| openrelay | $2.60 | $2.60 | $2.60 | 7 |
| synpixcloud | $2.78 | $2.78 | $2.79 | 35 |
| massedcompute | $2.89 | $3.02 | $3.14 | 14 |
| hyperstack | $3.20 | $3.20 | $3.20 | 14 |
| verda | $3.25 | $3.25 | $3.25 | 35 |
| runpod | $3.29 | $3.29 | $3.49 | 91 |
| cyfuture | $3.34 | $3.41 | $3.48 | 28 |
| arkane | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 | 7 |
| lambda | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 | 7 |
| togetherai | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 | 7 |
| cirrascale | $4.28 | $4.28 | $4.28 | 7 |
| oblivus | $4.31 | $4.31 | $4.31 | 7 |
| huggingface | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | 21 |
Spread Analysis
Across the 19 marketplaces carrying H100 SXM this week, the observed median ranged from $1.89/hr at upcloud to $10.00/hr at huggingface — a 5.3x spread between the lowest and highest median. Intra-SKU spreads of this magnitude reflect differences in commitment terms, regional availability, and how aggressively each provider is positioning the same hardware, rather than differences in the silicon itself. AIMC reports each marketplace's observed median independently and does not blend them into a single figure that would mask this dispersion — the spread itself is part of what the market is telling you.
Observation depth for H100 SXM this week totaled 322 listings across 19 marketplaces. Marketplaces with deeper listing counts contribute more stable medians; those represented by a single listing are shown for completeness but carry correspondingly less weight in interpreting where H100 SXM is clearing.
What This Means
The most striking feature of this week's H100 SXM data is not the direction of its median price movement but the extraordinary width of the pricing landscape surrounding it. Ai Mining Co. tracked 19 active marketplaces offering H100 SXM capacity this week, and the spread between the lowest and highest observed median hourly rates ran from $1.89 on Upcloud to $10.00 on Hugging Face — a 5.3x differential across what is nominally the same compute unit. A spread of this width suggests that buyers are not encountering a unified market for this SKU; they are encountering a collection of distinct market segments that happen to share a hardware label. Differences of this magnitude are broadly consistent with variation in commitment structures, with some platforms pricing short-burst or on-demand access at a substantial premium relative to providers whose rates may reflect longer reservation terms or regional supply conditions — though the data alone cannot confirm which variable is driving any individual platform's position on that range.
AIMC's data shows the aggregate median for H100 SXM moved +1.2% week over week, a directionally positive but numerically modest shift. Taken in isolation, that figure would suggest relative stability in the center of the distribution. But the dispersion tells a more complicated story: when the interquartile range spans multiple dollars per hour, the median is functioning less as a reliable price signal and more as an arithmetic midpoint between markets that may not be competing with one another in any practical sense. Platforms like Upcloud sitting at the low end and Hugging Face at the high end may be serving meaningfully different buyer profiles, geographic demand pools, or access models, and collapsing those into a single median risks obscuring more than it reveals.
It is important to state clearly that this analysis describes a snapshot. One week of observed pricing across 19 marketplaces captures the state of this SKU's availability and positioning at a specific moment; it does not constitute a trend, and nothing in this data supports characterizing the +1.2% move as the beginning, continuation, or reversal of any directional pattern. What the data does establish is that H100 SXM access is priced in a fragmented and highly dispersed manner across the platforms AIMC monitors, and that dispersion itself is a material feature of how this hardware is currently being brought to market.
Methodology & Coverage
This weekly report is generated from pricing data collected daily across all authorized data partners listed at aiminingco.com/data-partners. Coverage includes on-demand rates published by each marketplace. Spot pricing, reserved instance rates, and enterprise contracts are excluded.
For complete methodology, data collection schedule, and quality controls, see aiminingco.com/methodology.
This report contains observable market data only. No estimates, no forecasts, no buy/sell recommendations.