Weekly Pricing Pulse
By Bobby Clay, Founder, AIForge Works
9 providers harvested. 0 New Silicon catalog entries, 2 restored / expanded visibility entries, 13 Deprecated SKUs, and 0 on-demand per-GPU pricing observations over 1%.
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
Across the August 10 to August 17 comparison window, public GPU pricing was quiet. Among all nine providers we index, no comparable public on-demand GPU rate moved more than one percent. The four board floors were unchanged, remaining at levels they have held since mid-July.
The only catalog activity was minor visibility churn: two listings returned to view, thirteen dropped out, and no new GPU listing qualified as New Silicon. We report these as changes in what is currently visible, not as confirmed launches, retirements, or capacity moves.
A week with no price movement is not necessarily a slow news week for a buyer. It confirms that the public on-demand floor you would carry into a procurement or renewal discussion is still the floor.
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 public catalog floors from the August 17 harvest with the latest available Ornn x ICE OCPI reading set, through August 16, 2026 at 20:00 UTC. OCPI remains directional index context, not a live quote, an availability claim, or part of the weekly on-demand movement diff below.
OCPI compared to Global Public Catalog Floor
OCPI vs Public Catalog Floor by Week
Transaction-index prices vs lowest indexed public catalog floor.
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Week at a glance
No provider had comparable on-demand offers over the 1% movement threshold. AWS, Lambda, and Vultr changed catalog visibility through restored / expanded visibility and Deprecated SKU entries, 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.
- 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
| Provider | Class | New | Restored / expanded | Gone | >1% | Rolls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | hyperscaler | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Lambda | neocloud | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| Vultr | neocloud | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | - | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
No buyer-visible GPU catalog additions, removals, or public on-demand price moves above 1% were found this week for Azure, GCP, OCI, CoreWeave, Crusoe, and Nebius.
Underlying provider feeds also shifted: GCP (+1 catalog records), OCI (-546 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 (1) 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
2 previously seen public GPU catalog observations were visible again this week across Lambda (1), 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.
Lambda
1 Restored / expanded visibility entries- Restored / expanded visibility: Lambda
gpu_8x_a100in __NO_REGION_EVIDENCE__. A100 40GB, 8-GPU pack. On-demand instance price: $15.92/hr ($1.9900/hr per GPU).
Vultr
1 Restored / expanded visibility entries- Restored / expanded visibility: Vultr
vcg-a16-48c-496g-128vramin Bangalore, IN. NVIDIA A16 16 GB, 8-GPU pack. On-demand instance price: $3.7670/hr ($0.4709/hr per GPU).
Deprecated SKUs
13 Deprecated SKU GPU catalog entries were detected across AWS (6), Lambda (6), Vultr (1). 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 week's public-catalog comparison, even when a same-instance replacement looks likely; this does not prove the SKU is unavailable to buy.
AWS
6 previously listed offers not present this week / 1 displayed group- Previously listed GPU offer: AWS
g4dn.2xlargefrom US West (Las Vegas). Last seen as 6 price variants: instance $1.02-$1.27/hr (per-GPU $1.015-$1.27/hr).
Lambda
6 previously listed offers not present this week- Previously listed GPU offer: Lambda
gpu_8x_a100from Arizona, USA. Last seen on-demand: $15.92/hr (per-GPU: $1.9900/hr). - Previously listed GPU offer: Lambda
gpu_8x_a100from California, USA. Last seen on-demand: $15.92/hr (per-GPU: $1.9900/hr). - Previously listed GPU offer: Lambda
gpu_8x_a100from Germany. Last seen on-demand: $15.92/hr (per-GPU: $1.9900/hr). - Previously listed GPU offer: Lambda
gpu_8x_a100from Osaka, Japan. Last seen on-demand: $15.92/hr (per-GPU: $1.9900/hr). - Previously listed GPU offer: Lambda
gpu_8x_a100from Virginia, USA. Last seen on-demand: $15.92/hr (per-GPU: $1.9900/hr). - Previously listed GPU offer: Lambda
gpu_1x_gh200from __NO_REGION_EVIDENCE__. Last seen on-demand: $2.2900/hr (per-GPU: $2.2900/hr).
Vultr
1 previously listed offers not present this week- Previously listed GPU offer: Vultr
vcg-a16-48c-496g-128vramfrom __NO_REGION_EVIDENCE__. Last seen on-demand: $3.7670/hr (per-GPU: $0.4709/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
Evidence through. Pricing evidence in this issue runs through August 17, 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 (August 10, 2026) against this week's (August 17, 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 August 17, 2026 harvest completed across 9 providers. Across the broader catalog, 6,278,224 raw price observations became 908,119 normalized pricing rows, up 591 (+0.1%) week over week. Within that normalized catalog, instance rows increased by 65 (+0.1%) to 112,623. The supporting instance-spec table grew to 2,488,020 rows (up 2,481 (+0.1%)). This Pulse narrowed the catalog to 13,796 comparable public on-demand GPU observations, down 11 (-0.1%), for movement analysis.
Next Pulse: Week of 2026-08-24.