RunPod H100 rental price

RunPod lists 5 current on-demand H100 rows. Its lowest is $2.89 per GPU-hour, rank 5 of 19 among providers that set their own price. The median of those 19 is $3.90, so RunPod sits 26% below the median.

Lowest listed: $2.89/GPU-hr; 1× PCIe configuration
Rank: 5 of 19; by lowest solid price
Against median: -26%; median $3.90
Rows: 5; 0 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 RunPod 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 RunPod

5 rows

RunPod on-demand H100 rows with source and read date
Configuration	Billing	$/GPU-hr	$/hr, config	Region	Read	Source
1× PCIemarketplaceCommunity Cloud H100 PCIe	per second	$1.99	$1.99	not stated	2026-11-12	page
1× SXMmarketplaceCommunity Cloud H100 SXM	per second	$2.69	$2.69	not stated	2026-11-12	page
1× PCIeSecure Cloud H100 PCIe	per second	$2.89	$2.89	not stated	2026-11-12	page
1× NVLSecure Cloud H100 NVL	per second	$3.19	$3.19	not stated	2026-11-12	page
1× SXMSecure Cloud H100 SXM	per second	$3.99	$3.99	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

RunPod 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
1×	$1.99	$1.99	4 of 13	Voltage Park, $1.99

RunPod lists one size, 1× with a price it sets, so there is no per-GPU change across sizes to show.

RunPod: common questions

How much does RunPod charge for an H100 per hour?

$2.89 per GPU-hour for its lowest listed configuration (1× PCIe), read 2026-11-12. For that configuration the hourly total is $2.89.

Where does RunPod rank for the H100?

Rank 5 of 19 providers by lowest solid on-demand price. The closest providers by price are Massed Compute ($2.73), Thunder Compute ($2.95), Civo ($2.99), and OVHcloud ($2.99).

Is RunPod above or below the median?

RunPod's lowest figure of $2.89 is 26% below the median of $3.90, where the median is taken over each ranked provider's lowest price.

How does RunPod bill H100 time?

As stated on its pages: per second. At least one row states per-second billing.

Does RunPod list an 8-GPU H100 server?

Not with a current on-demand price in the data. It lists 1×.

Does RunPod list spot or reserved H100 capacity?

No spot or reserved H100 row is in the data for RunPod.

What RunPod states about itself

Pods are billed per second with no commitment. source
Secure Cloud and lower-priced Community Cloud tiers are both listed. source
Page was updated November 9, 2026. source

Pricing page read: https://www.runpod.io/pricing

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.