RunPod H100 SXM · Community Cloud vs Vultr vbm-112c-2048gb-8-h100-gpu

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The same H100 SXM at two providers, so the board is identical and everything else is not. RunPod H100 SXM · Community Cloud takes 2 of 4 rounds against Vultr vbm-112c-2048gb-8-h100-gpu. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $2.69/GPU-hr against $2.99/GPU-hr.

RunPodWins 2 rounds

H100 SXM · Community Cloud

1x H100 SXM · 80 GB · 3.4¢/GB-hr

$2.69/GPU-hr

$2.69/hr for the machine · $452 a weekMarketplace

Vultr

vbm-112c-2048gb-8-h100-gpu

8x H100 SXM · 80 GB each · 3.7¢/GB-hr

$2.99/GPU-hr

$23.92/hr for the machine · $4,019 a week

Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$2.69/GPU-hr

$2.99/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

not published

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

3.4¢/GB-hr

3.7¢/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

80 GB

80 GB

GPUs per instance

1x H100 SXM

8x H100 SXM

vCPU

20

112

RAM

125 GB

2015 GB

Included storage

none · volumes extra

960 GB

Regions listed

none listed

none listed

What a run costs on each

  • An hour of the machine$2.69/hr vs $23.92/hr
  • A day$65 vs $574
  • A week$452 vs $4,019
  • A week on spotno spot price vs no spot price

RunPod, then Vultr, at the published rate with no commitment discount.

Go further

Add a third or fourth machine, or change the weighting, in the tool.

What moved this week

  1. 1H100.80S.30V · 1x H100 SXM5 80GB

    Verda (DataCrunch) · 1% dearer ·

    H100 SXM · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour

    $4.79/GPU-hr $4.75/GPU-hr
  2. 1H100.80S.32V · 1x H100 SXM5 80GB

    Verda (DataCrunch) · 1% dearer ·

    H100 SXM · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour

    $4.79/GPU-hr $4.75/GPU-hr
  3. 4H100.80S.176V · 4x H100 SXM5 80GB

    Verda (DataCrunch) · 1% dearer ·

    H100 SXM · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour

    $4.79/GPU-hr $4.75/GPU-hr
  4. H100 SXM · Secure Cloud

    RunPod · 14% dearer ·

    H100 SXM · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour

    $3.99/GPU-hr $3.49/GPU-hr

Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, RunPod H100 SXM · Community Cloud or Vultr vbm-112c-2048gb-8-h100-gpu?
RunPod H100 SXM · Community Cloud, at $2.69/GPU-hr against $2.99/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 1 Nov 2026. On the whole machine that is $2.69/hr against $23.92/hr.
Which holds more GPU memory?
Vultr vbm-112c-2048gb-8-h100-gpu, at 640 GB across the instance against 80 GB. Per board it is 80 GB against 80 GB.
What would a week cost?
$452 for RunPod H100 SXM · Community Cloud and $4,019 for Vultr vbm-112c-2048gb-8-h100-gpu, at 168 hours of the whole machine at its published rate, with no commitment discount. Neither publishes an interruptible rate.
What does the hourly price leave out?
RunPod H100 SXM · Community Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Vultr vbm-112c-2048gb-8-h100-gpu: disk 960 GB, no regions published, billed per hour. Egress and tax are extra on both.

Every rate is the on-demand price for one GPU for one hour, read 1 Nov 2026 from each provider's own page, so a node of eight is compared at what one of its GPUs costs. Storage, egress and tax are extra unless a row says otherwise, and reserved or committed rates are not indexed. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.

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