A100 cloud pricing per hour and rental comparison
As of , the cheapest single A100 confirmed in stock is $0.50 per GPU-hour on Vast. The lowest listed price is $0.27 per GPU-hour on Vast, but that configuration is currently reported out of capacity. GPU Finder compares 8 providers for this size and refreshes availability hourly. Methodology.
Compare A100 on-demand and spot rental rates across 12 cloud providers — 40GB and 80GB listings, node pricing and live stock.
Structured offer basis: 43 current 1× A100 listings range from $0.27 to $4.35 USD per physical GPU-hour. Whole-node prices for other GPU counts are not mixed into this range.
Cheapest single A100 rental
verifiedCheapest A100 confirmed in stock right now
Limited- Is now a good time to rent an A100 cloud GPU?
- ■ mid-range vs the last 6 months — The 8× A100 on-demand floor is $2.82/hr ($0.35/GPU-hr), up 32% vs last month — 6-month range $0.33–$5.77/hr for 8× nodes. In short, prices are mid-range versus the last 6 months.
- What is the cheapest A100 cloud GPU available right now?
- Cheapest A100 confirmed in stock right now: $0.50/GPU-hr on Vast (1× listing, $0.50/hr).
- Which cloud providers most reliably have the A100 in stock?
- Most reliably in stock over the last 30 days: PrimeIntellect, Shadeform. Frequently waitlisted: Runpod, Vast.
Prices are the cheapest listed on-demand rates; “in stock” means the provider reported capacity on our last hourly check. How we compute this →
A100 rental prices by provider
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A100 (1× GPU) availability — last 7 days
1 of 5 providers kept 1× A100 ≥80% available all week. Polled hourly · 5 providers tracked · 7-day window.
| Provider | Tue29 | Wed30 | Thu1 | Fri2 | Sat3 | Sun4 | Mon5 | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PrimeIntellect | 100% | |||||||
| Shadeform | 66% | |||||||
| Lambda | 57% | |||||||
| Vast | 0% | |||||||
| Runpod | 0% |
30-day reliability depth
GPU Finder does not treat availability as a static yes/no flag. For A100, current stock badges are paired with a 30-day reliability score based on our hourly stock checks — the share of tracked time each listing was reported available. How we compute this →
- 75
- listings with a 30-day score
- 58%
- of listings on this page have a score
- 30d
- longest stock history on this page
Strongest reliability signals here: PrimeIntellect (100%, 30d covered), Shadeform (100%, 30d covered), Lambda (78%, 30d covered).
Caveat: scores stay hidden until a listing has at least 48 tracked hours, and some provider APIs expose coarse capacity levels instead of exact stock counts. Use the score as historical depth beside current availability, not as a guarantee that a GPU will still be allocatable when you click through.
Price History & Comparison
Full A100 price history (21 months) →Spot pricing decision guide
Treat spot as a risk-adjusted capacity decision, not just a cheaper number.
per GPU-hour
50% below on-demand floor
daily median for the same offers with complete history
median $0.67/GPU-hr
Cheapest trusted spot / interruptible capacity is on Vast; 1 provider currently report spot or interruptible stock (14 units/signals visible).
Vast has kept spot or interruptible capacity in stock most reliably over the last 30 days (2%). See the availability section for the broader stock history.
The discount is visible, but availability, reliability, or volatility argues for more caution.
Good fit: checkpointed batch jobs, flexible training, and experiments that can restart. Avoid for production serving, deadline-bound runs, or jobs that cannot tolerate eviction.
Source caveat: Runpod exposes explicit spot fields; Vast is labeled interruptible/bid-floor. Lambda is treated as on-demand-only unless a verified spot field is added.
A100 spot and interruptible pricing
A100 spot and interruptible GPU pricing can vary by provider, stock, and interruption risk. GPU Finder shows verified Runpod spot rows and Vast interruptible/bid-related rows beside on-demand pricing where current source data supports it.
Vast interruptible
$0.13/GPU-hr
vs on-demand $0.64/GPU-hr · 79% below on-demand
Vast interruptible A100 rowsGood fit: checkpointed batch jobs, flexible training, and experiments that can restart. Avoid for production serving, deadline-bound runs, or jobs that cannot tolerate eviction. Compare Runpod vs Vast spot and interruptible before renting.
A100 spot and interruptible FAQ
Who has A100 spot GPU pricing?
GPU Finder shows verified Vast interruptible/bid-related A100 rows where current source data supports it. Check the pricing table for on-demand and spot or interruptible offers from other providers.
What is the difference between A100 spot and interruptible pricing?
Runpod exposes explicit spot fields tied to Secure Cloud and Community Cloud. Vast uses a marketplace model, so its discounted A100 capacity is labeled interruptible or bid-related rather than generic spot.
Should I choose the cheapest A100 interruptible offer?
Only if the workload can tolerate interruption. A100 spot and interruptible prices are best for checkpointed batch jobs, flexible training, and experiments. Avoid them for production serving, deadline-bound runs, or non-checkpointed workloads.
About the A100
The NVIDIA A100 is the workhorse GPU of modern ML infrastructure. Based on the Ampere architecture, it introduced Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) partitioning, allowing a single 80 GB card to be sliced into up to seven isolated instances. While no longer the fastest for frontier training, it remains the most widely available datacenter GPU and offers the best price-to-performance ratio for most fine-tuning and medium-scale training jobs.
Key Specifications
| Architecture | Ampere (GA100) |
| GPU Memory | 80 GB HBM2e (also 40 GB) |
| Memory Bandwidth | 2.0 TB/s (80 GB) |
| FP16 Tensor Core | 312 TFLOPS |
| TDP | 400W (SXM4) / 300W (PCIe) |
| Interconnect | NVLink 3.0 (600 GB/s) |
| Release Year | 2020 |
Cloud Pricing Context
A100 80 GB instances start around $1.39/hr on specialized providers and can reach $5/hr on GCP and AWS. Spot pricing often dips below $1/hr. As the most broadly deployed datacenter GPU, the A100 has deep availability across all major and niche clouds, with prices dropping significantly since 2024.
Best For
- Fine-tuning models up to 30B parameters on a single GPU
- Cost-effective inference at scale using MIG partitioning
- Mixed-precision training workloads (BF16/TF32)
- Teams migrating from V100s who need a proven upgrade path
A100 by node size
Dated availability research
Cite the GPU Cloud Availability Index for frozen A100 provider reliability rankings, coverage hours and downloadable data.