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

June 8 is the first Pulse in this series where the market story is not just catalog churn: Azure and Nebius both show high-confidence on-demand per-GPU movement, while the Ornn x ICE OCPI comparison gives us a useful check against AIForge Works public catalog floors. The right read is still disciplined, not breathless: most providers did not reprice comparable on-demand GPU rows, and several visible catalog changes are availability or SKU-surface changes rather than proof of new physical capacity. For buyers, this is a re-check week: validate current public catalog rows before carrying forward last week's shortlist, and treat the OCPI/floor spread as directional market context rather than a live quote.

Quarantine note: the source bundle includes RTX PRO 6000 BSE rows that are held out pending source-backed disposition: 3 New Silicon rows and 5 weekly-diff movement rows. The published article uses post-quarantine display counts.

Ornn OCPI context

OCPI is the Ornn Cloud Price Index, a transaction-based benchmark for observed GPU cloud pricing that AIForge Works uses as market context alongside public provider catalog floors.

This Pulse includes the verified Ornn x ICE OCPI comparison for the June 8, 2026 reading set. It compares transaction-based OCPI readings with AIForge Works indexed Public Catalog floors and explicitly audited catalog ranges where available for H100 SXM, H200, B200, and A100 SXM4.

Read the comparison as directional index context, not a live quote, not a geography-matched procurement claim, and not part of the weekly on-demand movement diff below.

What moved this week

All qualifying on-demand price movement this week was in Azure, Nebius. AWS, GCP, Crusoe, Lambda, Vultr also changed catalog visibility through New Silicon and Deprecated SKU entries, shown below. Same-instance SKU rolls are tagged as likely price changes.

• Nebius H100 80 GB increased 30.5% in eu-north1, on a per-GPU basis.
• Azure A100 80 GB increased 30.1% in eastus2, on a per-GPU basis.
• Nebius B200 180 GB increased 30.0% in me-west1, on a per-GPU basis.

Top on-demand movers by provider

Azure

5 biggest Azure movers this week, ranked by confidence, then percentage change. (53 Azure price entries moved >1% in total.)

Nebius

5 biggest Nebius movers this week, ranked by confidence, then percentage change. (12 Nebius price entries moved >1% in total.)

Up to 5 price observations per provider, ranked by confidence (high-confidence first), then by percentage change. See Methodology for how per-GPU rates and confidence are computed.

Provider roll-up

No change this week: OCI, CoreWeave.

Quarantine note: 5 Azure RTX PRO 6000 BSE movement rows are excluded from the display movement totals above pending source-backed disposition. They remain in the source quarantine ledger.

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 Lambda (273 newly visible, 147 no longer visible); Vultr (2 newly visible, 8 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

332 New Silicon on-demand GPU catalog entries were detected across AWS (48), Azure (4), GCP (1), Lambda (273), Nebius (4), Vultr (2). 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

159 Deprecated SKU on-demand GPU catalog entries were detected across Crusoe (4), Lambda (147), Vultr (8). 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 (June 1, 2026) against this week's (June 8, 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 5.47M 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 2026-06-15.