Weekly Pricing Pulse

About Pulse

The Weekly Pricing Pulse presents what changed in published GPU cloud pricing across the 9 tracked providers in the last 7 days. Every week, AIForge Works runs a fresh harvest across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, CoreWeave, Lambda, Vultr, Nebius, and Crusoe, diffs the new data against the prior week, and surfaces the moves worth knowing about: biggest price changes on existing comparable entries, New Silicon, Deprecated SKUs, and likely price/SKU rolls.

What the Pulse is NOT: it is not a live quote, and it is not workload-specific advice. The numbers reflect public catalog prices at the moment of harvest. For a live quote, check the provider. Within AIForge Works, use Cloud Advisor for workload-specific recommendations, open the Multi-Cloud Pricing Analyzer to see neighboring SKUs, regions, or commitment terms for any mover that catches your eye, and use GPU Audit to compare your own GPU spend against a comparable floor.

Editor's note

May 18 was a baseline-stability week for public on-demand GPU pricing. Across all nine tracked providers, no comparable on-demand GPU offers moved more than 1% from the May 11 harvest, which means the visible signal this week is catalog availability rather than price movement. Vultr showed a small set of newly visible and no-longer-visible GPU catalog entries; AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, CoreWeave, Crusoe, Lambda, and Nebius were unchanged in this weekly comparison. We are treating the Vultr rows as catalog-watch items, not as proof of new capacity or broad repricing. For buyers, the takeaway is simple: public on-demand GPU prices were steady this week, but Vultr availability should be checked directly if those specific SKUs or regions matter to a deployment decision.

What moved this week

No provider had comparable on-demand offers over the 1% movement threshold. Vultr changed catalog visibility through New Silicon and Deprecated SKU entries, shown below. Same-instance SKU rolls are tagged as likely price changes.

• On-demand pricing was quiet this week. We did not find any public on-demand GPU price changes above the 1% reporting threshold; the visible movement is catalog availability.

Top on-demand movers by provider

No comparable offers met the 1% movement threshold for this section.

Up to 5 price observations per provider, ranked by absolute per-GPU rate change. See Methodology for how per-GPU rates are computed.

Provider roll-up

No change this week: AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, CoreWeave, Crusoe, Lambda, Nebius.

Existing price changes track comparable provider + region + instance/SKU observations over the 1% movement threshold. New Silicon excludes same-provider, same-geo, same-instance likely SKU rolls. Deprecated SKUs remain exact catalog SKUs no longer visible as purchasable rows.

Catalog changes this week

Catalog change counts are artifact-level visibility changes. They show provider + region + instance/SKU observations that became newly visible or no longer visible between harvests. Provider-level add/remove churn exists for Vultr (3 newly visible, 5 no longer visible), but this comparison did not find same-provider, same-geo, same-instance pairs. We do not describe these as likely SKU rolls unless that exact overlap is present.

New Silicon this week

3 New Silicon on-demand GPU catalog entries were detected across Vultr (3). Entries are grouped by provider so high-volume catalog churn does not hide smaller-provider changes.

New Silicon means a provider + region + instance/SKU observation newly visible in this harvest that is not paired with a same-provider, same-geo, same-instance deprecated SKU. It still does not by itself prove net-new capacity or a brand-new accelerator family.

Deprecated SKUs this week

5 Deprecated SKU on-demand GPU catalog entries were detected across Vultr (5). Entries are grouped by provider so high-volume catalog churn does not hide smaller-provider changes.

Deprecated SKU means the exact provider catalog SKU was present in the prior harvest but absent from this one. It is no longer purchasable as that exact SKU in the artifact comparison, even when a same-instance replacement looks likely.

Methodology

What we compared. This Pulse compares last week's harvest (May 11, 2026) against this week's (May 18, 2026). Both harvests run automatically against the same 9 cloud providers.

How we compare prices fairly. Different providers package GPUs differently: some sell single-GPU instances, others sell 8-GPU instances. To compare apples-to-apples, we divide every instance price by the number of GPUs on that instance. All movement percentages in this Pulse are based on that per-GPU hourly rate, not the raw instance price.

What counts as a real move. We only flag price changes greater than 1%. Anything smaller is treated as rounding noise and excluded.

Reserved/committed terms. The generated Pulse diff certifies on-demand movement only. If the editor's note discusses 1-year or 3-year reserved or committed terms, that claim must be reviewed against separate evidence before publication.

Currency. All prices are in US dollars. Catalog entries missing a clean price or verified GPU specs are dropped before comparison.

How we choose summary callouts. The short summary only highlights price moves that are broad enough to read as a market signal. Narrow one-provider movements may still appear in detail tables, but we do not treat them as market-wide repricing.

This week's coverage. All 9 providers reported clean harvests. After normalizing 5.46M raw catalog price observations against verified hardware specs, the broader MPA catalog includes all deployable instance offers. This Pulse narrows that catalog to roughly 14,000 comparable on-demand GPU observations for week-over-week movement analysis.

This Pulse compiles publicly published prices. It is not a live quote and is not workload-specific advice. See the About section at the top for links to AIForge Works pricing and availability tools.

Next Pulse: Week of 2026-05-25.