Vast.ai H100 rental price

Vast.ai publishes its H100 price as a marketplace or "from" figure, $2.00 per GPU-hour, set by hosts rather than by the provider. It is shown here but never ranked or counted in a statistic.

Marketplace figure: $2.00/GPU-hr; 1× PCIe configuration
Rank: not ranked; marketplace figure
Figure against median: -49%; 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 Vast.ai sits among the providers

19 providers

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

Closest in price

Every on-demand H100 row from Vast.ai

5 rows

Vast.ai on-demand H100 rows with source and read date
Configuration	Billing	$/GPU-hr	$/hr, config	Region	Read	Source
1× PCIemarketplaceMarketplace lowest listed (H100 PCIE)	not stated	$2.00	$2.00	not stated	2026-11-12	page
1× PCIemarketplaceMarketplace median (H100 PCIE)	not stated	$2.53	$2.53	not stated	2026-11-12	page
1× SXMmarketplaceMarketplace lowest listed (H100 SXM)	not stated	$2.67	$2.67	not stated	2026-11-12	page
1× NVLmarketplaceMarketplace lowest listed (H100 NVL)	not stated	$2.80	$2.80	not stated	2026-11-12	page
1× SXMmarketplaceMarketplace median (H100 SXM)	not stated	$3.41	$3.41	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

Vast.ai 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×	$2.00	$2.00	not ranked: marketplace figure	Voltage Park, $1.99

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

Vast.ai: common questions

How much does Vast.ai charge for an H100 per hour?

$2.00 per GPU-hour for its lowest marketplace configuration (1× PCIe), read 2026-11-12. For that configuration the hourly total is $2.00.

Where does Vast.ai rank for the H100?

It is not ranked: the figure is set by hosts on a marketplace, not by the provider, so it is left out of every ranking and statistic.

Is Vast.ai above or below the median?

Vast.ai's lowest figure of $2.00 is 49% below the median of $3.90, where the median is taken over each ranked provider's lowest price.

How does Vast.ai bill H100 time?

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

Does Vast.ai list an 8-GPU H100 server?

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

Does Vast.ai list spot or reserved H100 capacity?

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

What Vast.ai states about itself

Prices are set by supply and demand across 40+ data centers. source
Offers are on-demand, interruptible or reserved. source

Pricing page read: https://vast.ai/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.