Google Cloud H100 rental price

Google Cloud lists 2 current on-demand H100 rows. Its lowest is $11.06 per GPU-hour, rank 19 of 19 among providers that set their own price. The median of those 19 is $3.90, so Google Cloud sits 184% above the median.

Lowest listed: $11.06/GPU-hr; 8× configuration
Rank: 19 of 19; by lowest solid price
Against median: +184%; median $3.90
Rows: 2; 2 spot, 0 reserved

Rank is among the 19 providers with a current on-demand price they set; marketplace figures, announced prices, spot and reserved rows are not ranked. The difference to the median uses $3.90, the median of the provider lows. USD per GPU-hour, before tax.

Where Google Cloud sits among the providers

19 providers

18 providers, each at its lowest listed on-demand price, USD per GPU-hour

Closest in price

Every on-demand H100 row from Google Cloud

2 rows

Google Cloud on-demand H100 rows with source and read date
Configuration	Billing	$/GPU-hr	$/hr, config	Region	Read	Source
8×a3-highgpu-8g (208 vCPU, 1,871GB RAM)	not stated	$11.06	$88.49	not stated	2026-11-12	page
8×a3-megagpu-8g (208 vCPU, 1,872GB RAM)	not stated	$11.68	$93.40	not stated	2026-11-12	page

Current rows first, then rows announced for later. A marketplace row is set by hosts, a from chip gives the start date of an announced price.

Size by size against the market

rank is among providers at the same size

Google Cloud lowest H100 price at each configuration size and its rank at that size
Size	$/GPU-hr	$/hr, config	Rank at this size	Lowest at this size
8×	$11.06	$88.49	9 of 10	Vultr, $2.30

Google Cloud lists one size, 8× with a price it sets, so there is no per-GPU change across sizes to show.

Spot and reserved H100 from Google Cloud

not part of the ranking

Spot (2)

Google Cloud spot H100 rows beside its on-demand price
Configuration	Billing	$/GPU-hr	Its on-demand low	Difference	Read	Source
8×a3-megagpu-8g (208 vCPU, 1,872GB RAM)	not stated	$6.28	$11.06	-43%	2026-11-12	page
8×a3-highgpu-8g (208 vCPU, 1,871GB RAM)	not stated	$6.59	$11.06	-40%	2026-11-12	page

Spot is capacity that can be interrupted; reserved is paid for over a term. The difference compares each row with Google Cloud's lowest on-demand price of $11.06.

Google Cloud: common questions

How much does Google Cloud charge for an H100 per hour?

$11.06 per GPU-hour for its lowest listed configuration (8×), read 2026-11-12. For that configuration the hourly total is $88.49.

Where does Google Cloud rank for the H100?

Rank 19 of 19 providers by lowest solid on-demand price. The closest providers by price are CoreWeave ($6.16), Amazon Web Services ($6.88), Microsoft Azure ($6.98), and Oracle Cloud ($10.00).

Is Google Cloud above or below the median?

Google Cloud's lowest figure of $11.06 is 184% above the median of $3.90, where the median is taken over each ranked provider's lowest price.

How does Google Cloud bill H100 time?

Google Cloud does not state a billing unit on the pages we read for its H100 rows, so none is assumed.

Does Google Cloud list an 8-GPU H100 server?

Yes: $11.06 per GPU, $88.49 per server-hour.

Does Google Cloud list spot or reserved H100 capacity?

2 spot and 0 reserved rows, shown above with the on-demand low beside each.

What Google Cloud states about itself

Machine types have a 1-minute minimum usage charge. source
GPU machine types are billed for attached GPUs, predefined vCPU, memory and bundled Local SSD. source

Pricing page read: https://cloud.google.com/products/compute/pricing/accelerator-optimized

Disclosure

H100 Rate Card is published by the Runcrate team, who also run Runcrate, an AI cloud. Runcrate is listed in the table for the H100, marked "ours, live". It is sorted by price like every other row, with no pinned position. Other providers' prices are read from their own public pricing pages. We have no paid placement.