What an H100 costs per month

That is the whole sum. Count the GPUs in the rental, the hours the machine is up, and the price per GPU-hour. On 12 Nov 2026, the median listed on-demand H100 price was $3.90 per GPU-hour, and the lowest was $1.99.

A single card up all month is 720 GPU-hours. A machine of eight up all month is 5,760.

Most work does not need the machine all month. Office hours on weekdays come to about 170 hours. A nightly batch job of two hours comes to about 60.

On demand you pay for those hours only, as long as the machine is stopped in between. The billing unit decides how much rounding is added at each stop.

A low per-GPU price on a machine of eight is the most common way a budget goes wrong. On 12 Nov 2026, the lowest listed hourly total for an 8-GPU H100 machine was $18.40. Check the smallest rental before you multiply.

If the job needs two H100s, run the sum for one H200 as well. On 12 Nov 2026, the median listed price per GPU-hour was $5.40 for the H200. One card for 720 hours against two cards for 720 hours is often closer than the hourly prices suggest.

If the machine runs most of the 720 hours, price a prepaid month. Multiply the term rate by all 720 and compare with on demand for the hours you expect. A term that is a third cheaper per hour pays off only when you use more than two thirds of it.

Storage is billed while the machine is stopped. Data moved out may be billed by the gigabyte. A machine left on after the job ended is billed at the full rate. Add all three to the month.

On Runcrate one prepaid balance pays for GPUs, models and storage. Billing is by the second on most GPUs, and booting is never billed. Volumes keep files between instances, so stopping a machine does not lose your work. When use is steady, you can prepay a machine for 1 to 12 months at a discount.

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