Weekly Pricing Pulse

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.

Editor's note

The July 13 harvest warranted a closer look. Public on-demand GPU pricing was quiet across the nine providers in our catalog as no comparable per-GPU rate moved more than 1%. Fourteen previously seen observations returned—13 Lambda A100 40GB rows and one Vultr A16 row—while 54 exact provider-region-SKU observations were no longer visible, 52 at Lambda. These are catalog-visibility changes, not proof of new capacity or hardware retirement.

At the same time, the broader dataset expanded. Raw provider records rose by 35,526, or 0.65%, to 5,520,202, while normalized pricing rows rose by 11,403, or 1.43%, to 809,741. The all-in instance count fell by 2,153, or 1.93%, from 111,706 to 109,553, but most of that decline came from refining how Azure products are counted. Prices for entire dedicated hosts are now tracked separately from prices for individual virtual machines; those Azure products remain in the catalog and did not disappear. For buyers, the takeaway is straightforward: unchanged public prices do not mean an unchanged catalog, so confirm that the exact GPU SKU is still listed in the region you need before relying on last week’s data.

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 pairs AIForge Works' July 13, 2026 public catalog-floor harvest with the latest reviewed Ornn x ICE OCPI readings available through July 12, 2026 at 20:00 UTC. The comparison covers H100 SXM, H200, B200, and A100 SXM4. Read it as directional index context, not a live quote, not a geography-matched procurement claim, and not part of the weekly on-demand movement count below.

That 0-move count applies only to comparable public-catalog on-demand prices. OCPI is a separate transaction-based market index and is shown independently.

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

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 (+36,100 catalog records), Azure (-680 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 (13) and Vultr (1). Because these provider and SKU combinations appeared in earlier verified harvests, we treat them as restored catalog visibility rather than brand-new silicon launches.

Catalog changes this week

Catalog change counts summarize week-over-week visibility changes in the compared harvests. 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.

Restored / expanded visibility

14 previously seen provider-region-SKU observations returned to view: 13 Lambda A100 40GB 8-GPU entries and one Vultr A16 8-GPU entry. Each appeared in an earlier verified harvest and is visible again in this week's comparison. We treat these as restored / expanded catalog visibility, not New Silicon and not proof of newly available capacity.

Deprecated SKUs

54 Deprecated SKU GPU catalog entries were detected across Lambda (52), Vultr (2). 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 visible as that exact SKU in this weekly comparison, even when a same-instance replacement looks likely; this does not prove the SKU is unavailable to buy.

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

Evidence through. Pricing evidence in this issue runs through July 13, 2026. This evidence-through date is recorded separately from the publication date shown in the article header.

What we compared. This Pulse compares last week's harvest (July 6, 2026) against this week's (July 13, 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 13, 2026 harvest completed across 9 providers. Across the broader catalog, 5,520,202 raw price observations became 809,741 normalized pricing rows, up 11,403 (+1.4%) week over week. Within that normalized catalog, instance rows fell to 109,553, down 2,153 (-1.9%). The supporting instance-spec table grew to 2,224,262 rows, up 31,404 (+1.4%). This Pulse narrowed the catalog to 13,659 comparable public on-demand GPU observations, down 37 (-0.3%), for movement analysis.

Next Pulse: Week of 2026-07-20.