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July 6, 2026

Weekly Pricing Pulse

9 providers harvested. 0 New Silicon catalog entries, 44 restored / expanded visibility entries, 6 Deprecated SKUs, and 0 on-demand per-GPU moves over 1%.

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One email after the Monday harvest review: material price moves, catalog churn, OCPI context, and buyer notes.

Editor's note

The July 6 harvest was relatively quiet for public on-demand GPU prices, but it was useful for verification. Across the nine clouds tracked, we did not find a comparable per-GPU price move above the 1% reporting threshold. The visible movement this week is catalog visibility: Lambda rows that disappeared last week returned to view, and Vultr had one row seen in earlier verified harvests return. We are treating those as restored visibility, not new catalog launches. The latest reviewed Ornn Cloud Price Index (OCPI) readings across H100 SXM, H200, B200, and A100 SXM4 remained below the public catalog floor across the nine-provider catalog set.

About Pulse

The Weekly Pricing Pulse tracks what changed in published GPU cloud pricing across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, CoreWeave, Lambda, Vultr, Nebius, and Crusoe over the last 7 days. AIForge Works compares each new harvest with the prior week and highlights buyer-relevant movement: comparable on-demand price changes, New Silicon, restored / expanded visibility, Deprecated SKUs, and likely price/SKU rolls.

This is not a live quote, workload-specific recommendation, or personalized account analysis. For workload-specific recommendations, use Cloud Advisor. To inspect neighboring SKUs, regions, or commitment terms, open the Multi-Cloud Pricing Analyzer. To compare your own GPU spend against a comparable floor, use GPU Audit.

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 compares AIForge Works' July 6 public catalog harvest with the latest reviewed Ornn x ICE OCPI readings available through July 5, 2026 at 20:00 UTC.

Ornn OCPI context

OCPI compared to Global Public Catalog Floor

MPA data: July 6, 2026 harvest
Market coverage
H100 SXM
This comparison includes publicly listed cloud offers for whole-GPU instances across AIForge Works' indexed global catalog.
OCPI-H100 SXM
Transaction-based - Ornn x ICE - latest July 5, 2026 20:00 UTC
$2.57/ GPU / hr
AIForge Works global floor
Nebius - eu-north1
$3.85/ GPU / hr
Spread to OCPI
$1.28 50% above
Providers with matching Public offers 8 / 9
Global Public Catalog floor sits $1.28 / 50% above OCPI - Nebius is the lowest indexed AIForge Works offer for this GPU comparison.
Hyperscalers: AWS $6.88 to OCI $10.00 (+167.7% to +289.1% vs OCPI)
Neoclouds: Nebius $3.85 to CoreWeave $6.16 (+49.8% to +139.5% vs OCPI)
Provider floor detail
Public catalog floors - normalized per GPU/hr
Hyperscalers
4/4 matched
AWSHyperscalers
$6.88/GPU/hr
+$4.31 / +167.7%
p5.4xlarge-1 GPU
US East (N. Virginia)
AzureHyperscalers
$6.98/GPU/hr
+$4.41 / +171.6%
Standard_NC40ads_H100_v5-1 GPU
eastus
GCPHyperscalers
$9.80/GPU/hr
+$7.23 / +281.2%
0B85-B65B-0812-1 GPU
us-east4
OCIHyperscalers
$10.00/GPU/hr
+$7.43 / +289.1%
B98415-8 GPUs
ap-hyderabad-1
Neoclouds
4/5 matched
NebiusNeoclouds
$3.85/GPU/hr
+$1.28 / +49.8%
1gpu-16vcpu-200gb-1 GPU
eu-north1
CrusoeNeoclouds
$3.90/GPU/hr
+$1.33 / +51.8%
h100-80gb-sxm-ib.8x-8 GPUs
Europe (Iceland)
LambdaNeoclouds
$3.99/GPU/hr
+$1.42 / +55.3%
gpu_8x_h100_sxm5-8 GPUs
Arizona, USA
CoreWeaveNeoclouds
$6.16/GPU/hr
+$3.59 / +139.5%
hgx-h100-8 GPUs
global
VultrNeoclouds
N/A
No indexed match
No indexed Public Catalog match-Coverage gap
N/A
Methodology: This comparison covers publicly listed whole-GPU H100 SXM offers that match the OCPI family. Provider floor prices are shown only when a comparable worldwide H100 family has been reviewed. It excludes fractional vGPU slices, private quotes, negotiated discounts, taxes, provider-specific fees, zero-priced listings, spot/preemptible pricing, and reserved or committed terms. For multi-GPU instances, AIForge Works normalizes the listed hourly instance price to dollars per GPU-hour by dividing by GPU count.
What the floor means: The AIForge Works global floor is the lowest indexed public catalog offer found for this GPU comparison. It is a global catalog-floor benchmark, not a region-matched comparison to OCPI.
Sources and limits: This Pulse uses the July 6, 2026 harvest for public catalog floors and the latest reviewed Ornn x ICE OCPI reading available for comparison, through July 5, 2026 20:00 UTC. OCPI is a transaction-based Ornn x ICE index; AIForge Works floors are independently indexed public catalog offers. This page is informational only: it is not a live quote, availability guarantee, purchase recommendation, or procurement, legal, financial, or technical advice. Verify current provider availability, terms, fees, taxes, discounts, and contract pricing directly with the provider before acting. Full OCPI methodology lives at index.ornn.com.

OCPI vs Public Catalog Floor by Week

Transaction-index prices vs lowest indexed public catalog floor.

OCPI index Catalog floor

H100 SXM

OCPI
$2.57
Floor
$3.85(Nebius)
$1.28 above
$3.89$2.275/18Nebius5/18 catalog floor: $2.9500 from Nebius5/18 OCPI: $3.1500$3.15$2.955/25Nebius5/25 catalog floor: $2.9500 from Nebius5/25 OCPI: $2.8500$2.85$2.956/1Nebius6/1 catalog floor: $2.9500 from Nebius6/1 OCPI: $2.7700$2.77$2.956/8Nebius6/8 catalog floor: $3.8500 from Nebius6/8 OCPI: $3.1000$3.10$3.856/15Nebius6/15 catalog floor: $3.8500 from Nebius6/15 OCPI: $2.4800$2.48$3.856/22Nebius6/22 catalog floor: $3.8500 from Nebius6/22 OCPI: $2.3100$2.31$3.856/29Nebius6/29 catalog floor: $3.8500 from Nebius6/29 OCPI: $2.4500$2.45$3.857/6Nebius7/6 catalog floor: $3.8500 from Nebius7/6 OCPI: $2.5700$2.57$3.85

H200

OCPI
$4.03
Floor
$4.29(Crusoe)
$0.26 above
$5.78$3.385/18Nebius5/18 catalog floor: $3.5000 from Nebius5/18 OCPI: $5.7200$5.72$3.505/25Nebius5/25 catalog floor: $3.5000 from Nebius5/25 OCPI: $4.1100$4.11$3.506/1Nebius6/1 catalog floor: $3.5000 from Nebius6/1 OCPI: $4.6600$4.66$3.506/8Crusoe6/8 catalog floor: $4.2900 from Crusoe6/8 OCPI: $4.6000$4.60$4.296/15Crusoe6/15 catalog floor: $4.2900 from Crusoe6/15 OCPI: $3.5900$3.59$4.296/22Crusoe6/22 catalog floor: $4.2900 from Crusoe6/22 OCPI: $3.4400$3.44$4.296/29Crusoe6/29 catalog floor: $4.2900 from Crusoe6/29 OCPI: $3.6100$3.61$4.297/6Crusoe7/6 catalog floor: $4.2900 from Crusoe7/6 OCPI: $4.0300$4.03$4.29

B200

OCPI
$5.14
Floor
$6.69(Lambda)
$1.55 above
$6.75$4.235/18Nebius5/18 catalog floor: $5.5000 from Nebius5/18 OCPI: $5.8200$5.82$5.505/25Nebius5/25 catalog floor: $5.5000 from Nebius5/25 OCPI: $5.3400$5.34$5.506/1Nebius6/1 catalog floor: $5.5000 from Nebius6/1 OCPI: $5.9900$5.99$5.506/8Lambda6/8 catalog floor: $6.6900 from Lambda6/8 OCPI: $4.6600$4.66$6.696/15Lambda6/15 catalog floor: $6.6900 from Lambda6/15 OCPI: $4.5000$4.50$6.696/22Lambda6/22 catalog floor: $6.6900 from Lambda6/22 OCPI: $4.2900$4.29$6.696/29Lambda6/29 catalog floor: $6.6900 from Lambda6/29 OCPI: $4.4100$4.41$6.697/6Lambda7/6 catalog floor: $6.6900 from Lambda7/6 OCPI: $5.1400$5.14$6.69

A100 SXM4

OCPI
$1.01
Floor
$2.30(Crusoe)
$1.29 above
$2.33$0.985/18Crusoe5/18 catalog floor: $1.9500 from Crusoe5/18 OCPI: $1.2400$1.24$1.955/25Crusoe5/25 catalog floor: $1.9500 from Crusoe5/25 OCPI: $1.2600$1.26$1.956/1Crusoe6/1 catalog floor: $1.9500 from Crusoe6/1 OCPI: $1.3000$1.30$1.956/8Crusoe6/8 catalog floor: $1.9500 from Crusoe6/8 OCPI: $1.0700$1.07$1.956/15CoreWeave6/15 catalog floor: $2.2100 from CoreWeave6/15 OCPI: $1.0500$1.05$2.216/22CoreWeave6/22 catalog floor: $2.2100 from CoreWeave6/22 OCPI: $1.0200$1.02$2.216/29Crusoe6/29 catalog floor: $2.3000 from Crusoe6/29 OCPI: $1.0200$1.02$2.307/6Crusoe7/6 catalog floor: $2.3000 from Crusoe7/6 OCPI: $1.0100$1.01$2.30

Week at a glance

No provider had comparable on-demand offers over the 1% movement threshold. Lambda and Vultr changed catalog visibility through restored / expanded visibility and Deprecated SKU entries, shown below.

  • 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.

Provider roll-up

ProviderClassNewRestored / expandedGone>1%Rolls
Lambdaneocloud043300
Vultrneocloud01300
Totals-044600

No buyer-visible GPU catalog additions, removals, or public on-demand price moves above 1% were found this week for AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, CoreWeave, Crusoe, and Nebius.

Underlying provider feeds also shifted: AWS (+2,852 catalog records), Azure (-8,833 catalog records), OCI (+208 catalog records). After normalizing to comparable GPU offers, purchase terms, and verified hardware specs, those feed-level changes did not alter the public on-demand GPU offers reported in this Pulse.

Offers seen in earlier verified harvests returned to view this week: Lambda (43) and Vultr (1). Because these provider and SKU combinations appeared in earlier verified harvests, we treat them as restored catalog visibility rather than new catalog launches.

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. We do not describe these as confirmed capacity launches or retirements unless provider-published sources say so.

New Silicon

  • No New Silicon catalog entries were detected after excluding likely same-instance SKU/price rolls.

Deprecated SKUs

6 Deprecated SKU GPU catalog entries were detected across Lambda (3), Vultr (3). 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.

Lambda

3 Deprecated SKU entries
  • Deprecated SKU: Lambda gpu_8x_a100 from California, USA. Last seen on-demand: $15.92/hr (per-GPU: $1.9900/hr).
  • Deprecated SKU: Lambda gpu_1x_a100_sxm4 from India. Last seen on-demand: $1.9900/hr (per-GPU: $1.9900/hr).
  • Deprecated SKU: Lambda gpu_8x_a100 from Osaka, Japan. Last seen on-demand: $15.92/hr (per-GPU: $1.9900/hr).

Vultr

3 Deprecated SKU entries
  • Deprecated SKU: Vultr vcg-a16-48c-496g-128vram from Atlanta, US. Last seen on-demand: $3.7670/hr (per-GPU: $0.4709/hr).
  • Deprecated SKU: Vultr vcg-a16-48c-496g-128vram from Singapore, SG. Last seen on-demand: $3.7670/hr (per-GPU: $0.4709/hr).
  • Deprecated SKU: Vultr vcg-a16-12c-128g-32vram from Tokyo, JP. Last seen on-demand: $0.9420/hr (per-GPU: $0.4710/hr).

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 confidence (high-confidence first), then by percentage change.

Methodology

What we compared. This Pulse compares last week's harvest (June 29, 2026) against this week's (July 6, 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. 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 and has not been seen in the lookback window. Restored / expanded visibility means the provider and instance/SKU appeared in an earlier verified harvest and is visible again, sometimes in additional regions. Deprecated SKU means the exact provider catalog SKU was present in the prior harvest but absent from this one.

Scope and limits. The generated Pulse diff certifies on-demand movement only. All prices are in US dollars. Catalog entries missing a clean price or verified GPU specs are dropped before comparison. This Pulse compiles publicly published prices and is not a live quote, availability guarantee, or workload-specific advice.

This week's coverage. The July 6, 2026 harvest completed across 9 providers. After normalizing 5,484,676 raw catalog price observations against verified hardware specs, the broader MPA catalog includes all deployable instance offers. This Pulse narrows that catalog to 13,694 comparable on-demand GPU observations for week-over-week movement analysis.

Next Pulse: Week of 2026-07-13.