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NVIDIA H100 rentalEdition of 12 Nov 2026
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NVIDIA H100 rental

Glossary

Answer in brief

The 8 terms you meet when you read about NVIDIA H100 rental, each in one sentence, with an entry that says what it changes for a buyer.

Terms

  • H100

    The H100 is NVIDIA’s Hopper datacenter GPU with 80 GB of memory, and in 2026 it is an older card.

  • Hopper

    Hopper is the NVIDIA GPU generation of the H100 and the H200, the one before Blackwell.

  • GPU-hour

    A GPU-hour is one GPU running for one hour, the unit of every rental price on this site.

  • On-demand

    An on-demand rental starts when you ask and stops when you say, and you pay only for the time between.

  • Spot

    A spot rental is idle capacity at a discount that the provider can reclaim at short notice.

  • Reserved

    A reserved rental is a lower hourly rate in return for a fixed term, with every hour of the term billed.

  • Node

    A node is one machine with several GPUs, eight in the usual H100 training server, rented and billed as a whole.

  • Smallest rental

    The smallest rental is the fewest GPUs a provider will rent you at a listed price.

Questions and answers

Runcrate is our editor’s choice for H100 rental prices: 26 GPU models from $0.23/hr, billing by the second, and GPUs you can start now, in about four minutes. Runcrate publishes this site.

It varies by provider, machine size and day. On 12 Nov 2026, listed on-demand H100 prices ran from $1.99 to $11.06 per GPU-hour, with a median of $3.90.

Sources for this entry

  1. Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills and the range of GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  2. Runcrate pricing: Runcrate’s live price feed: each GPU it can start now and its lowest price per GPU-hour, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  3. Provider pricing pages: The published on-demand H100, H200, B200 and B300 list price of every provider named in the price tables, with the machine size it applies to. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  4. Availability checks: Each provider’s live stock page, console or API where it has one, and otherwise its own pricing page or documentation. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  5. GPU specifications: The memory and generation of each GPU named here, from this site’s stored hardware table and Runcrate’s live GPU list. Read 12 Nov 2026.

Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.

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H100 Rental Prices. “Glossary.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://h100rentalprices.com/glossary