H200 rental: cheapest among tracked providers

Prices verified through 2026-10-27 · 3 offers from 2 vendors · sorted by cost for 100 GPU hours/month

Cheapest among tracked providers for 100 hours a month: RunPod H200 (Community Cloud) at $359.00. Change hours or GPU count in the calculator.

#	GPU	Vendor	Type	Rate	100 h/month	Full month (730 h)	Vendor quote	Verified	Label
1	H200 141 GB	RunPod	Community Cloud	$3.59/hr	$359.00	$2,620.70	“H200 $3.59/hr”	2026-10-27	referral
2	H200 SXM 141 GB	Modal	Serverless (per second)	$4.5396/hr	$453.96	$3,313.91	“Nvidia H200 SXM $0.001261/sec”	2026-10-27	public
3	H200 141 GB	RunPod	Secure Cloud	$5.29/hr	$529.00	$3,861.70	“H200 141GB $5.29/hr”	2026-10-27	referral

Basis: hourly rate × hours; dedicated servers are a flat monthly price. One GPU. Excludes storage, egress and tax.

Read before comparing

Rankings are the cheapest among tracked providers on our check date, not across the whole market. Vendors we don't track may cost less.

GPU-hours vs wall-clock time

Prices are per GPU-hour: one GPU for one hour. Four GPUs for 10 wall-clock hours is 40 GPU-hours. Per-second billing (serverless) charges only while your code runs; hourly pods bill from start to stop, idle time included; monthly servers bill a flat price whatever you use. A faster GPU can finish the same job in fewer GPU-hours, so the lowest hourly rate isn't always the lowest cost per job.

Hardware differences

The same GPU name can mean different hardware. SXM modules link GPUs over NVLink and run at higher power limits than PCIe cards, so an H100 SXM is usually faster than an H100 PCIe, especially for multi-GPU training. Interconnect between GPUs and nodes (NVLink, InfiniBand, plain Ethernet) is rarely listed on pricing pages; treat it as unknown unless the vendor states it. VRAM decides which models fit at all. Hardware as listed: H200 141 GB (not stated); H200 SXM 141 GB (SXM).

Egress and storage extras

Totals on this page exclude these. Each cell cites the vendor page it came from; unknown means the vendor doesn't publish it there.

Vendor	Egress	Storage	Interruption / billing terms
Modal	Network egress $0.04/GiB; Starter plan includes 1 TiB/month free. (source, 2026-10-27)	Volumes $0.09/GiB/mo (includes 1 TiB/mo free). (source, 2026-10-27)	Functions are preemptible by default; non-preemptible execution is 3x the base price. CPU and memory are billed separately. (source, 2026-10-27)
RunPod	unknown: Not published on the pricing page. (checked 2026-10-27)	Container disk $0.10/GB/mo; volume disk $0.10/GB/mo running, $0.20/GB/mo idle; network storage $0.07/GB/mo under 1 TB, $0.05/GB/mo over 1 TB. (source, 2026-10-27)	Listed rates are on-demand Pod prices (Secure Cloud and Community Cloud). (source, 2026-10-27)

Interruptible vs on-demand

Interruptible (preemptible or spot) capacity can be stopped by the vendor mid-job and is usually cheaper; on-demand runs until you stop it. Interruptible (preemptible) rates listed here: Modal H200 SXM. All other rates are on-demand: the vendor doesn't publish preemption for them.

FAQ

What is the cheapest H200 per hour among tracked providers?

RunPod H200 (Community Cloud) at $3.59/hr, per the vendor's pricing page checked 2026-10-27. That's $359.00 for 100 GPU hours.

What does a full month of H200 cost?

Running one GPU all month (730 h), the lowest verified option among tracked providers is RunPod H200 (Community Cloud) at about $2,620.70.

What is the difference between RunPod Community Cloud and Secure Cloud?

Both are per-hour pods. Community Cloud runs on vetted third-party hosts and costs less; Secure Cloud runs in RunPod's partner data centers. Pick Secure Cloud for sensitive data or stricter uptime needs.

How does Modal's per-second price compare with an hourly pod?

Modal bills GPU time per second only while your function runs, so idle time costs nothing. Its listed rates are for preemptible functions; non-preemptible execution is 3x and choosing a region adds 1.15-1.75x (per modal.com/pricing). The hourly figure shown is the per-second rate x 3600.

What isn't included in these prices?

Storage, data egress, extra vCPU/RAM and taxes. Prices are list or 'from' prices; confirm on the vendor page before you rent.

How are these prices verified?

Each row quotes the vendor's own pricing page and shows the date it was checked. Offers without a verified price aren't listed, and referral links don't change the order.

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