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, previously listed provider-region GPU offers not present in the latest snapshot, 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 27 harvest was quiet on comparable public on-demand GPU pricing, but not on catalog visibility. All nine providers completed the harvest and had normalized GPU offers in both comparison weeks. The current set contains 13,741 normalized comparable public on-demand GPU offers, up 19 from 13,722 last week. Of those, 13,703 exact provider + region + instance/SKU observations were present in both weeks. None of the matched observations moved more than the 1% reporting threshold.

Most of this week's visibility churn was at Lambda. Thirty-eight previously seen offers returned to view—37 at Lambda and one at Vultr—while 19 previously listed Lambda provider-region GPU offers were not present in this week's public catalog snapshot. This does not necessarily mean the GPU was retired or unavailable; the listing may have moved, changed identifiers, or temporarily disappeared from the provider feed.

The broader raw provider feeds moved more substantially. AWS added 47,712 records, but all of that net growth came from non-GPU product families: Compute Optimized (+13,493), General Purpose (+17,700), Memory Optimized (+15,907), and Storage Optimized (+612). AWS's raw GPU Instance family remained flat at 177,216 rows, while its comparable GPU offer set remained unchanged at 10,582. GCP declined by 503 raw records: CPU and RAM fell by 252 rows each, partially offset by one additional TPU row. Its Accelerated Computing family remained flat at 1,972 rows, and its comparable GPU offer set remained unchanged at 798.

Ornn Cloud Price Index (OCPI) context moved even though the comparable public on-demand catalog did not. From the July 19 reviewed reading to the latest July 26 reading available at the time this article was written, Ornn x ICE OCPI moved to $2.60 per GPU-hour for H100 SXM (-4.1%), $4.86 for H200 (-0.8%), $6.58 for B200 (-7.8%), and $1.05 for A100 SXM4 (+4.0%). That move flipped the B200 comparison: with the public catalog floor unchanged at $6.69 per GPU-hour, the lowest reviewed public B200 price now sits about $0.11 (1.7%) above the index; a week ago it was $0.45 (6%) below it. H200 is now the only one of the four tracked families whose public floor remains below OCPI ($4.29 versus $4.86). This is index movement, not a public-catalog price change; OCPI is transaction-based index context, not an executable quote, availability proof, or part of the public-catalog movement counts below.

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. The latest Ornn x ICE reading set available when this draft was refreshed is through July 26, 2026 at 20:00 UTC.

These are index readings, not live provider quotes or current orderability claims. They do not alter the July 27 public-catalog movement analysis.

Week at a glance

Among the 9 providers with comparable public on-demand GPU offers in both weeks, none had a price move over the 1% reporting threshold. Lambda and Vultr changed catalog visibility through restored / expanded visibility and previously listed GPU offers not present this week, shown below.

These movement counts apply only to comparable public-catalog on-demand prices. OCPI is a separate transaction-based market index and is shown independently.

• Among the 9 providers with comparable public on-demand GPU offers in both weeks, no price changes cleared the 1% reporting threshold.

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.

GPU movement coverage. All 9 providers had comparable public on-demand GPU offers in both weeks and were included in the GPU price-movement conclusion.

Underlying provider feeds also shifted: AWS (+47,712 catalog records), GCP (-503 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 (37) 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

38 previously seen public GPU catalog observations were visible again this week across Lambda (37), Vultr (1).

Each provider and SKU had appeared in an earlier verified comparison; the region shown is where the offer was visible this week. We classify these as restored or expanded catalog visibility, not a new hardware launch, proof of added capacity, or confirmation that the offer is currently orderable.

Previously listed GPU offers not present this week

Nineteen previously listed provider-region Lambda GPU offers were not present in this week's public catalog snapshot. Entries are grouped by provider so high-volume catalog churn does not hide smaller-provider changes.

Each count represents one provider + region + instance/SKU combination that appeared in the prior harvest but not in this one. This does not necessarily mean the GPU was retired or unavailable; the listing may have moved, changed identifiers, or temporarily disappeared from the provider feed.

Top on-demand movers by provider

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

Methodology

Evidence through. Pricing evidence in this issue runs through July 27, 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 20, 2026) against this week's (July 27, 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. Providers with zero comparable GPU offers in either week are excluded from GPU price-movement conclusions. 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 no-longer-visible observation 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. A previously listed offer counted as not present this week means the exact provider + region + instance/SKU combination appeared in the prior harvest but not in this one; multiple regional observations can share one SKU string.

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 27, 2026 harvest completed across 9 providers. After normalizing 5,585,097 raw catalog price observations against verified hardware specs, this Pulse identified 13,741 current normalized comparable public on-demand GPU offers. Of those, 13,703 exact provider + region + instance/SKU observations were present in both weeks and eligible for direct movement comparison.

Next Pulse: Week of 2026-08-03.