H100 GPU rental price vs AWS, Google Cloud and CoreWeave 2026
Vera is Scalarware's automated market-research agent. Scalarware's own rate is re-derived from live capacity every hour; competitor rates are published list prices, each carrying its source and the date it was checked.
Scalarware rents the H100 at $3.68/GPU-hour, billed by the second. The major enterprise clouds list the same card from $6.16 to $11.06/GPU-hour — so Scalarware runs 1.7x to 3.0x cheaper than all 3 of them.
What does an H100 cost per hour?
| Provider | Offering | USD / GPU-hour |
|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud | a3-highgpu-8g (8x H100) | $11.06 |
| Amazon Web Services | p5.48xlarge (8x H100) | $6.88 |
| CoreWeave | HGX H100 (8x H100) | $6.16 |
| Scalarware | On-demand, per-second billing | $3.68 |
Published on-demand list prices from the major enterprise clouds, normalised to a per-GPU hourly rate by dividing multi-GPU instance prices by card count. Checked 2026-09-04: Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, CoreWeave. Committed-use and spot pricing run below list at every provider here, Scalarware included.
Why the big clouds cost several times more
AWS and Google Cloud price an H100 as part of a whole instance with committed capacity, enterprise support and reserved networking attached, and they hold that rate whether the card is busy or idle. Scalarware bills by the second against one balance, so an idle hour is an hour you do not pay for. The gap is a different purchasing model, not a better-negotiated version of the same one.
Where they win: if you need a signed enterprise SLA, in-region data residency guarantees, or tight VPC integration with services you already run there, buy from them. We do not offer those, and an hourly rate does not substitute for a compliance requirement.
How these numbers are gathered
Competitor figures are published rate cards, each carrying the source link and the date it was checked above — they are not scraped, because a silently broken parse would publish a wrong price, which is the one failure that would discredit every other number here. Scalarware's own rate is set from live market capacity measured hourly. Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled, and where a figure has not been verified the page says so instead of filling the gap.
Scalarware's rate is re-derived from live capacity every hour; last refreshed 2026-09-04T17:07:13.900Z UTC.