MARKET PULSEH100 $4.18/GPU-HR 3PH200 $4.47/GPU-HR 1PMI300X $2.59/GPU-HR 1PL40S $1.62/GPU-HR 2PB300 $16.0/GPU-HR 1POBSERVED 2026-09-03 · 1H CACHE

MARKET SNAPSHOT / 03 SEPTEMBER 2026

Compute is becoming
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The intelligence layer for AI infrastructure—prices, futures, capacity, capital and the signals moving the machine economy.

01

CL-FCR $4.41 · the Frontier Compute Rate reference index.

02

H100-family public list pricing centers on $4.18 per GPU-hour.

03

123 source plans; 27 have the fields required for normalized offers.

04

Refresh eligible hourly; latest underlying observation is 2026-09-03.

01 / MARKET BOARD

The price of intelligence.

One board for rental rates, public-market proxies and the economics of an AI workload. Reference data is delayed; methodology varies by source.

CURRENT

H100 minimum advertised plan rate

$4.41LOWEST / PLAN-HR
$4.41$3.90$3.39
2026-08-052026-08-202026-09-03
PUBLIC LIST PRICES · NOT A TRANSACTION INDEXCC-BY SOURCE ↗
CURRENTCHECKED 03 SEPT, 20:47 UTCSOURCE UPDATES DAILY · WE CHECK HOURLY CACHE, ON REQUEST

COMPUTE LEDGER REFERENCE INDEX

CL-FCR Frontier Compute Rate

One current-snapshot reference rate across eligible H100-family, H200, MI300X and B300 public cloud offers.

REFERENCE INDEX · NOT TRADEABLE$4.41USD / GPU-HR
RANGE
$2.59–$16.00
COVERAGE
3 providers · 9 offers
CONSTITUENTS
H100 family · H200 · MI300X · B300
OBSERVED
2026-09-03
GPU FAMILYMEDIANRANGECOVERAGE
H100H100 family · public cloud$4.18/ GPU hr$3.37–$4.413 providersBROAD · 4 offers · 2026-09-03
H200H200 · public cloud$4.47/ GPU hr$4.47–$4.471 providerSINGLE SOURCE · 2 offers · 2026-09-03
MI300XAMD MI300X · public cloud$2.59/ GPU hr$2.59–$2.591 providerSINGLE SOURCE · 2 offers · 2026-09-03
L40SL40S · public cloud$1.62/ GPU hr$1.57–$1.672 providersLIMITED · 2 offers · 2026-09-03
B300HGX B300 · public cloud$16.0/ GPU hr$16.00–$16.001 providerSINGLE SOURCE · 1 offers · 2026-09-03
RTX6KRTX PRO 6000 · public cloud$6.25/ GPU hr$6.00–$8.251 providerSINGLE SOURCE · 4 offers · 2026-09-03

CAPACITY CALCULATOR

What does your GPU month cost?

EST. TOTAL$24,051
Data: gpucloudcompare.com (CC-BY-4.0)METHODOLOGY + LICENSE ↗

02 / INTELLIGENCE

Signals, not noise.

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OFFICIAL RELEASE

Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026

First-party signal from NVIDIA. Open the canonical release for the complete announcement.

OFFICIAL RELEASE

NVIDIA and MediaTek Deepen Long-Standing Partnership to Build AI Edge to Cloud Computing Platforms

First-party signal from NVIDIA. Open the canonical release for the complete announcement.

OFFICIAL RELEASE

AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN Expand Saudi Arabia’s AI Infrastructure as AMD Instinct Systems Go Live

First-party signal from AMD. Open the canonical release for the complete announcement.

03 / BUILT FOR MACHINES, TOO

Clean enough to read.
Structured enough to reason with.

Every signal has a date, unit, provenance and canonical URL. Humans get context; agents get deterministic endpoints.

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