Weekly Pricing Pulse

Editor's note

Between October 11, 2026 and October 18, 2026, the lowest observed comparable public on-demand catalog prices across the nine providers we track changed as follows. The H100 SXM floor rose from $3.90/GPU-hour at Crusoe to $3.99/GPU-hour at Lambda (2.3% higher); the lowest-priced provider changed. The H200 floor at Crusoe rose from $4.29 to $5.40/GPU-hour (25.9% higher). The B200 floor remained $6.69/GPU-hour at Lambda. The A100 SXM4 floor remained $2.30/GPU-hour at Crusoe. These are saved-catalog observations, not live quotes or evidence of capacity or orderability; the lowest price may involve a different region or instance size.

For market context, over the 8 days from October 11, 2026 to October 19, 2026, settled OCPI readings in US dollars per GPU-hour changed as follows: H100 SXM moved from $2.65 to $2.98 (up 12.5%); H200 moved from $5.61 to $6.35 (up 13.2%); B200 moved from $7.45 to $8.41 (up 12.9%); A100 SXM4 moved from $0.96 to $1.00 (up 4.2%). Percentage changes are approximate. The catalog and index retain their separate observation dates and are not region-matched quotes.

Across the October 11 to October 18 GPU pricing comparison, 4 matched public on-demand GPU prices across the nine providers we track changed by more than 1%. We compared 13,685 of this week’s 13,795 GPU price listings directly with last week’s prices for the same provider, region and GPU configuration. The other 110 listings had no exact prior match: 108 were newly visible and 2 had appeared in an earlier catalog.

Nearly all of this week’s 108 newly visible listings are in two AWS regions: 102 G7e listings in Malaysia, spanning six sizes and 17 observed operating-system and preinstalled-software combinations per size, plus five Trn2 on-demand listings in Hyderabad. The remaining listing is a GCP RTX PRO 6000 GPU-component rate in Melbourne.

The AIForge Works Weekly Pricing Pulse is informational and is not a live quote, capacity signal, availability guarantee, workload-specific recommendation or personalized account analysis. For workload-specific options, use Cloud Advisor. To inspect neighboring SKUs, regions or terms, open the Multi-Cloud Pricing Analyzer. To compare your own GPU spend with dated market evidence, use GPU Audit. Verify current price, capacity, availability, orderability, terms, fees and taxes directly with the provider before acting.

Ornn OCPI context

OCPI is the Ornn Compute Price Index (Ornn x ICE), a third-party index that tracks the traded price of compute rather than quoted or listed prices, shown as market context. Ornn measures on-demand rentals only; reserved-capacity, long-term and forward contracts are outside the scope of the indices. These are settled daily readings through October 19, 2026. Ornn index source.

All readings are US dollars per GPU-hour. Catalog and OCPI prices are displayed rounded to cents. Spreads and percentage changes are approximate and may differ slightly when recomputed from the displayed rounded values.

Lowest observed catalog price: The lowest comparable public on-demand price found in our October 18 catalog across the nine providers we track.

Week at a glance

We compared 13,685 of this week’s 13,795 GPU price listings directly with last week’s prices for the same provider, region and GPU configuration. 110 listings did not have an exact prior match; the details below explain those differences. 4 matched prices changed by more than 1%.

Collection-method correction: AWS Windows listings use the license-included price; BYOL and license-excluded variants are not compared.

Collection-method correction: AWS G7e (RTX PRO 6000) sizes are identified from AWS’s published specifications and are now compared per GPU-hour.

Collection-method correction: This issue uses the October 18 Harvest.

Collection-method correction: Crusoe location labels now follow Crusoe's published locations: US East (New York) is now US East (Virginia) and US West (California) is now US West (Nevada). Earlier weeks are compared under the corrected labels, so the change is not counted as catalog movement.

Collection-method correction: For this issue, we recomputed the October 11 comparison baseline using the current eligibility rules: 13,692 comparable listings, versus 14,032 reported in the October 12 issue. This 340-listing restatement changes the comparison baseline; it is not evidence of provider listings appearing or disappearing. This week's figures use the restated baseline.

Provider roll-up

No reportable exact GPU catalog movement was found for Azure, OCI, CoreWeave or Nebius.

Newly visible listings

Catalog changes in detail

Restored or expanded regional observations

• Lambda: gpu_1x_h100_pcie in Region not published at $3.29 per GPU-hour.
• Lambda: gpu_8x_a100 in Region not published at $1.99 per GPU-hour.

Prior regional observations not seen this week

• Lambda: gpu_8x_a100 in Germany at $1.99 per GPU-hour.
• Lambda: gpu_8x_a100 in Israel at $1.99 per GPU-hour.
• Lambda: gpu_8x_a100 in Osaka, Japan at $1.99 per GPU-hour.
• Lambda: gpu_1x_h100_pcie in Utah, USA at $3.29 per GPU-hour.
• Vultr: vcg-a16-12c-128g-32vram in Region not published at $0.47 per GPU-hour.
• Vultr: vcg-a16-24c-256g-64vram in Region not published at $0.47 per GPU-hour.
• Vultr: vcg-a16-48c-496g-128vram in Region not published at $0.47 per GPU-hour.

Matched prices changed by more than 1%

• Crusoe: h200-141gb-sxm-ib.8x (H200 141 GB) in Europe (Iceland): $4.29 to $5.40 per GPU-hour.
• Crusoe: h100-80gb-sxm-ib.8x (H100 80 GB) in Europe (Iceland): $3.90 to $4.50 per GPU-hour.
• Crusoe: h100-80gb-sxm-ib.8x (H100 80 GB) in US East (Virginia): $3.90 to $4.50 per GPU-hour.
• Crusoe: h100-80gb-sxm-ib.8x (H100 80 GB) in US South (Texas): $3.90 to $4.50 per GPU-hour.

Same SKUs under different region labels

The following SKUs appear in both regional observation lists at the same recorded per-GPU price, GPU label and GPU count. These are separate region-qualified observations, not evidence that the underlying SKUs disappeared. The records alone do not establish whether the locations changed or their labels changed; unknown regions remain unknown. The counts retain the original exact comparison keys.

• Lambda: gpu_1x_h100_pcie; prior labels: Utah, USA; current labels: Region not published.
• Lambda: gpu_8x_a100; prior labels: Germany, Israel, Osaka, Japan; current labels: Region not published.

Catalog visibility does not establish a product launch, retirement, or available capacity.

Evidence and methodology

We compare public on-demand prices for the same provider, region and GPU configuration. Prices are normalized per GPU-hour and rounded to cents. The lowest observed comparable catalog price excludes spot, reserved or committed terms, software-only charges and fractional GPUs. Catalog prices are saved evidence, not live quotes or guarantees of orderability.

Next Pulse: Week of October 26, 2026