The same H100 costs $2.69 or $12.29 an hour depending where you rent it

H100 GPU rental prices vary dramatically across providers, ranging from $2.69 per hour on RunPod Community to $12.29 per hour on Azure—a 4.57× difference for the identical chip. However, this gap reflects more than just profit margins; cheaper options sacrifice features like high-speed InfiniBand networking and enterprise SLAs that are essential for large-scale multi-node training, making them suitable only for single-node workloads.