{
  "date": "2026-09-21",
  "harvestLabel": "September 21, 2026 catalog",
  "sourceNote": "Public catalog prices recorded September 21, 2026, compared with September 14. Some September 14 Azure entries use verified recovered collection dates rather than original capture timestamps. OCPI uses the September 21 settlement at 4 PM Eastern. Listings without a published region do not establish regional availability.",
  "gpuData": {
    "H100 SXM": {
      "tab": "H100 SXM",
      "ocpiLabel": "OCPI-H100 SXM",
      "filter": "Across the nine providers we track, this comparison covers publicly listed whole-GPU H100 SXM offers that match the OCPI family. For each provider, the displayed floor is the lowest eligible offer found for this exact H100 SXM cohort; it is not a floor across GPU families. It excludes fractional vGPU slices, private quotes, negotiated discounts, taxes, provider-specific fees, zero-priced listings, spot/preemptible pricing, and reserved or committed terms. Per-GPU pricing is calculated by dividing the listed instance hourly price by the number of GPUs in the instance.",
      "offerBasis": "Provider floor for the exact OCPI GPU shown",
      "ocpi": 2.7883333333333336,
      "ocpiAsOf": "September 21, 2026 4:00 PM Eastern (EDT)",
      "offers": [
        {
          "provider": "AWS",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 6.88,
          "instancePrice": 55.04,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "p5.48xlarge",
          "region": "US East (N. Virginia)",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 26,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 15,
          "qualification": "coverage-degraded",
          "qualificationReason": "The Harvest source identifies the eligible P5 offers as H100 80 GB HBM3 but does not literally state the SXM form factor.",
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA H100 (80 GB HBM3, Hopper, 1979 TFLOPS (Tensor/Sparsity))"
        },
        {
          "provider": "Azure",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 12.29,
          "instancePrice": 98.32,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "Standard_ND96isr_H100_v5",
          "region": "westus3",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 24,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 24,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA H100 (80 GB HBM3, Hopper, 1979 TFLOPS (Tensor/Sparsity))"
        },
        {
          "provider": "GCP",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 11.061249987825,
          "instancePrice": 88.4899999026,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "a3-highgpu-8g",
          "region": "us-west1",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 14,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 13,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA H100 SXM (80 GB HBM3)"
        },
        {
          "provider": "OCI",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 10.0,
          "instancePrice": 80.0,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "H100 SXM 8-GPU instance (B98415)",
          "region": "ap-hyderabad-1",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 52,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 26,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA H100 (Tensor Core) (80 GB HBM3, Hopper, 1979 TFLOPS (Tensor/Sparsity))"
        },
        {
          "provider": "CoreWeave",
          "className": "neocloud",
          "perGpu": 6.155,
          "instancePrice": 49.24,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "hgx-h100",
          "region": "global",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 1,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 1,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA HGX H100 (80 GB)"
        },
        {
          "provider": "Crusoe",
          "className": "neocloud",
          "perGpu": 3.9,
          "instancePrice": 31.2,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "h100-80gb-sxm-ib.8x",
          "region": "Europe (Iceland)",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 3,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 3,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA H100 SXM5 (80 GB HBM3)"
        },
        {
          "provider": "Lambda",
          "className": "neocloud",
          "perGpu": 3.99,
          "instancePrice": 31.92,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "gpu_8x_h100_sxm5",
          "region": "Region not published",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 4,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 1,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA H100 SXM5 (80 GB HBM3)"
        },
        {
          "provider": "Nebius",
          "className": "neocloud",
          "perGpu": 3.85,
          "instancePrice": 3.85,
          "gpuCount": 1.0,
          "sku": "1gpu-16vcpu-200gb",
          "region": "eu-north1",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 2,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 1,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA H100 NVLink (80 GB HBM3, Hopper, 1979 TFLOPS (Tensor/Sparsity))"
        }
      ],
      "missingProviderNotes": {
        "Vultr": "No eligible reviewed offer for this exact GPU cohort."
      }
    },
    "H200": {
      "tab": "H200",
      "ocpiLabel": "OCPI-H200",
      "filter": "Across the nine providers we track, this comparison covers publicly listed whole-GPU H200 offers, excluding GH200 systems. For each provider, the displayed floor is the lowest eligible offer found for this exact H200 cohort; it is not a floor across GPU families. It excludes fractional vGPU slices, private quotes, negotiated discounts, taxes, provider-specific fees, zero-priced listings, spot/preemptible pricing, and reserved or committed terms. Per-GPU pricing is calculated by dividing the listed instance hourly price by the number of GPUs in the instance.",
      "offerBasis": "Provider floor for the exact OCPI GPU shown",
      "ocpi": 5.065,
      "ocpiAsOf": "September 21, 2026 4:00 PM Eastern (EDT)",
      "offers": [
        {
          "provider": "AWS",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 7.912,
          "instancePrice": 63.296,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "p5en.48xlarge",
          "region": "US East (N. Virginia)",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 13,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 13,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA H200 (141 GB HBM3e, Hopper, 1979 TFLOPS (Tensor/Sparsity))"
        },
        {
          "provider": "Azure",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 10.6,
          "instancePrice": 84.8,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "Standard_ND96isr_H200_v5",
          "region": "eastus2",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 31,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 31,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA H200 (141 GB HBM3e, Hopper, 1979 TFLOPS (Tensor/Sparsity))"
        },
        {
          "provider": "GCP",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 10.600863561625,
          "instancePrice": 84.806908493,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "a3-ultragpu-8g",
          "region": "us-central1",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 1,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 1,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA H200 SXM (141 GB HBM3e)"
        },
        {
          "provider": "OCI",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 10.0,
          "instancePrice": 80.0,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "H200 8-GPU instance (B110519)",
          "region": "ap-hyderabad-1",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 26,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 26,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA H200 (141 GB HBM3e, Hopper, 1979 TFLOPS (Tensor/Sparsity))"
        },
        {
          "provider": "CoreWeave",
          "className": "neocloud",
          "perGpu": 6.305,
          "instancePrice": 50.44,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "hgx-h200",
          "region": "global",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 1,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 1,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA HGX H200 (141 GB)"
        },
        {
          "provider": "Crusoe",
          "className": "neocloud",
          "perGpu": 4.29,
          "instancePrice": 34.32,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "h200-141gb-sxm-ib.8x",
          "region": "Europe (Iceland)",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 1,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 1,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA H200 SXM5 (141 GB HBM3e)"
        },
        {
          "provider": "Nebius",
          "className": "neocloud",
          "perGpu": 4.5,
          "instancePrice": 4.5,
          "gpuCount": 1.0,
          "sku": "1gpu-16vcpu-200gb",
          "region": "eu-north1",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 8,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 4,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA H200 NVLink (141 GB HBM3e, Hopper, 1979 TFLOPS (Tensor/Sparsity))"
        }
      ],
      "missingProviderNotes": {
        "Lambda": "No eligible reviewed offer for this GPU in the dated catalog.",
        "Vultr": "No eligible reviewed offer for this GPU in the dated catalog."
      }
    },
    "B200": {
      "tab": "B200",
      "ocpiLabel": "OCPI-B200",
      "filter": "Across the nine providers we track, this comparison covers publicly listed whole-GPU B200 offers, excluding GB200 systems. For each provider, the displayed floor is the lowest eligible offer found for this exact B200 cohort; it is not a floor across GPU families. It excludes fractional vGPU slices, private quotes, negotiated discounts, taxes, provider-specific fees, zero-priced listings, spot/preemptible pricing, and reserved or committed terms. Per-GPU pricing is calculated by dividing the listed instance hourly price by the number of GPUs in the instance.",
      "offerBasis": "Provider floor for the exact OCPI GPU shown",
      "ocpi": 7.706666666666667,
      "ocpiAsOf": "September 21, 2026 4:00 PM Eastern (EDT)",
      "offers": [
        {
          "provider": "AWS",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 14.2416,
          "instancePrice": 113.9328,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "p6-b200.48xlarge",
          "region": "US East (N. Virginia)",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 8,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 8,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA B200 (192 GB HBM3e, Blackwell, 4500 TFLOPS (Tensor/Sparsity))"
        },
        {
          "provider": "OCI",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 14.0,
          "instancePrice": 112.0,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "B200 8-GPU instance (B110978)",
          "region": "ap-hyderabad-1",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 26,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 26,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA B200 (192 GB HBM3e, Blackwell, 4500 TFLOPS (Tensor/Sparsity))"
        },
        {
          "provider": "CoreWeave",
          "className": "neocloud",
          "perGpu": 8.6,
          "instancePrice": 68.8,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "nvidia-b200",
          "region": "global",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 1,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 1,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA HGX B200 (180 GB)"
        },
        {
          "provider": "Lambda",
          "className": "neocloud",
          "perGpu": 6.69,
          "instancePrice": 53.52,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "gpu_8x_b200_sxm6",
          "region": "Region not published",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 3,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 1,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA B200 SXM6 (180 GB HBM3e)"
        },
        {
          "provider": "Nebius",
          "className": "neocloud",
          "perGpu": 7.15,
          "instancePrice": 57.2,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "8gpu-160vcpu-1792gb",
          "region": "me-west1",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 4,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 2,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA B200 NVLink (180 GB HBM3e, Blackwell, 4500 TFLOPS (Tensor/Sparsity))"
        }
      ],
      "missingProviderNotes": {
        "GCP": "No eligible reviewed offer for this exact GPU cohort.",
        "Vultr": "No eligible reviewed offer for this exact GPU cohort.",
        "Azure": "GB200 systems are outside this B200 comparison; no eligible Azure B200 offer is included.",
        "Crusoe": "No eligible reviewed offer for this GPU in the dated catalog."
      }
    },
    "A100 SXM4": {
      "tab": "A100 SXM4",
      "ocpiLabel": "OCPI-A100 SXM4",
      "filter": "Across the nine providers we track, this comparison covers publicly listed whole-GPU A100 SXM4 offers that match the OCPI family. For each provider, the displayed floor is the lowest eligible offer found for this exact A100 SXM4 cohort; it is not a floor across GPU families. It excludes fractional vGPU slices, private quotes, negotiated discounts, taxes, provider-specific fees, zero-priced listings, spot/preemptible pricing, and reserved or committed terms. Per-GPU pricing is calculated by dividing the listed instance hourly price by the number of GPUs in the instance. The catalog cohort requires 80 GB per GPU; Azure ND96asr_A100_v4 (40 GB) is excluded.",
      "offerBasis": "Provider floor for the exact OCPI GPU shown",
      "ocpi": 0.9933333333333333,
      "ocpiAsOf": "September 21, 2026 4:00 PM Eastern (EDT)",
      "offers": [
        {
          "provider": "AWS",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 3.43088125,
          "instancePrice": 27.44705,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "p4de.24xlarge",
          "region": "US East (N. Virginia)",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 6,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 6,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA A100 (80 GB HBM2e, Ampere, 312 TFLOPS (Tensor))"
        },
        {
          "provider": "Azure",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 4.09625,
          "instancePrice": 32.77,
          "gpuCount": 8,
          "sku": "Standard_ND96amsr_A100_v4",
          "region": "westus3",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 29,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 29,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB",
          "specificationSource": "https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/ndma100v4-series",
          "qualification": "qualified_Consumption_base_compute"
        },
        {
          "provider": "GCP",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 5.06879789,
          "instancePrice": 5.06879789,
          "gpuCount": 1.0,
          "sku": "a2-ultragpu-1g",
          "region": "us-central1",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 1,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 1,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA A100 SXM4 (80 GB HBM2e)"
        },
        {
          "provider": "OCI",
          "className": "hyperscaler",
          "perGpu": 4.0,
          "instancePrice": 32.0,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "A100 SXM4 8-GPU instance (B95907)",
          "region": "ap-hyderabad-1",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 26,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 26,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA A100 (80 GB HBM2e, Ampere, 624 TFLOPS (Tensor/Sparsity))"
        },
        {
          "provider": "CoreWeave",
          "className": "neocloud",
          "perGpu": 2.7,
          "instancePrice": 21.6,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "nvidia-a100",
          "region": "global",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 1,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 1,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA A100 (80 GB)"
        },
        {
          "provider": "Crusoe",
          "className": "neocloud",
          "perGpu": 2.3,
          "instancePrice": 18.4,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "a100-80gb-sxm-ib.8x",
          "region": "US East (New York)",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 1,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 1,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB (80 GB HBM2e)"
        },
        {
          "provider": "Lambda",
          "className": "neocloud",
          "perGpu": 2.79,
          "instancePrice": 22.32,
          "gpuCount": 8.0,
          "sku": "gpu_8x_a100_80gb_sxm4",
          "region": "Region not published",
          "offerBasis": "provider_gpu_floor",
          "eligibleOfferCount": 1,
          "eligibleRegionCount": 1,
          "gpuType": "NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80 GB (80 GB HBM2e)"
        }
      ],
      "missingProviderNotes": {
        "Vultr": "No eligible reviewed offer for this exact GPU cohort.",
        "Nebius": "No eligible reviewed offer for this GPU in the dated catalog."
      }
    }
  },
  "correctionEvidence": "/pulse/2026-09-21/evidence/azure-a100-correction.json"
}