A100 Cloud GPU Pricing
Compare A100 prices across 13 cloud providers. On-demand from $0.20/hr.
A100 market snapshot
verifiedCheapest A100 confirmed in stock right now: $0.20/hr on Vast.
▲ mid-range vs the last 6 months — at $2.14/hr the A100 floor price is mid-range vs the last 6 months (up 540% vs last month) — 6-month range $0.33–$5.77/hr.
Bottom line: prices are mid-range versus the last 6 months.
Most reliably in stock over the last 30 days: Shadeform, PrimeIntellect, Lambda. Frequently waitlisted: Gcore, Runpod.
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 computed from AvailabilityRecord history, measuring how much covered time each tracked row was reported available.
Strongest reliability signals here: PrimeIntellect (100%, 30d covered), Shadeform (100%, 30d covered), Lambda (98%, 30d covered).
Caveat: scores stay hidden until a row has at least 48covered 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.
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
Price History & Comparison
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
fake/equal spot rows suppressed
median $1.93/GPU-hr
Cheapest trusted spot / interruptible capacity is on Vast; 1 provider currently report spot-adjacent stock (282 units/signals visible).
Vast has the strongest 30-day spot-adjacent reliability signal here (98%). See the 30-day reliability depth module for the broader availability 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
$0.10/GPU-hr
vs on-demand $0.20/GPU-hr · 50% 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 table below for on-demand and spot-adjacent 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.
A100 (1× GPU) availability — last 7 days
2 of 5 providers kept 1× A100 ≥80% available all week. Polled hourly · 5 providers tracked · 7-day window.
| Provider | Sat15 | Sun16 | Mon17 | Tue18 | Wed19 | Thu20 | Fri21 | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PrimeIntellect | 100% | |||||||
| Vast | 96% | |||||||
| Lambda | 75% | |||||||
| Shadeform | 71% | |||||||
| Runpod | 0% |
Pricing by Provider
| Provider | Instance Type | GPUs | On-Demand | Spot / interruptible | Visit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vast | 1x A100 SXM4 marketplace | 1 | $0.20 Available | $0.10 | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 PCIE marketplace | 1 | $0.27 Available | $0.20 | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 SXM4 marketplace | 1 | $0.27 Available | $0.13 | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 PCIE marketplace | 1 | $0.27 Available | N/A | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 SXM4 marketplace | 1 | $0.52 Available | $0.20 | Visit |
| Vast | 2x A100 PCIE marketplace | 2 | $0.53 Available | $0.40 | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 SXM4 marketplace | 1 | $0.53 Available | N/A | Visit |
| Vast | 2x A100 PCIE marketplace | 2 | $0.54 Available | N/A | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 SXM4 marketplace | 1 | $0.60 Available | $0.30 | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 SXM4 marketplace | 1 | $0.60 Available | N/A | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 SXM4 marketplace | 1 | $0.60 Available | $0.13 | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 PCIE marketplace | 1 | $0.66 Available | $0.47 | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 SXM4 marketplace | 1 | $0.67 Available | $0.60 | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 PCIE marketplace | 1 | $0.67 Available | $0.53 | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 SXM4 marketplace | 1 | $0.74 Available | N/A | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 SXM4 marketplace | 1 | $0.74 Available | $0.53 | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 PCIE marketplace | 1 | $0.78 Available | $0.43 | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 SXM4 marketplace | 1 | $0.80 Available | $0.40 | Visit |
| Vast | 2x A100 PCIE marketplace | 2 | $0.80 Available | $0.27 | Visit |
| Vast | 1x A100 PCIE marketplace | 1 | $0.83 Available | N/A | Visit |
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