Blackwell rental prices spike
A compute‑pricing index reported that hourly rental costs for Nvidia Blackwell GPUs rose to $4.08, a 48% jump from $2.75 two months earlier. The index attributes the price move to rising demand for agentic AI workloads and constrained high‑end GPU supply. (intellectia.ai)
Renting Nvidia’s newest Blackwell chips has gotten sharply more expensive, with one market index putting the average price at $4.08 an hour in April. (techmeme.com) Techmeme, citing The Wall Street Journal, said the Ornn Compute Price Index measured a 48% jump from $2.75 an hour about two months earlier. Ornn said this month that its index tracks GPU-hour pricing across cloud and on-premises markets and is now distributed on the Bloomberg Terminal. (techmeme.com) (tmcnet.com) Blackwell is Nvidia’s current data-center chip family for training and running artificial intelligence models. Nvidia says the DGX B200 system uses eight Blackwell GPUs, while the larger GB200 NVL72 links 72 Blackwell GPUs and 36 Grace central processing units in one rack-scale system. (nvidia.com 1) (nvidia.com 2) Those systems were built for the newer style of artificial intelligence work that keeps models active for longer stretches. Nvidia says GB200 NVL72 targets “reasoning” and trillion-parameter inference, and Amazon Web Services said in May 2025 that its P6-B200 instances were aimed at artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads. (nvidia.com) (aws.amazon.com) Cloud access to Blackwell only started opening up over the past year. Amazon Web Services announced general availability of P6-B200 instances on May 15, 2025, and Nvidia said CoreWeave was the first cloud provider to make GB200 NVL72 instances generally available. (aws.amazon.com) (blogs.nvidia.com) Price pressure is not limited to Blackwell. A SemiAnalysis index reported last week that one-year rental contract pricing for Nvidia H100 chips rose to $2.35 an hour in March 2026 from $1.70 an hour in October 2025, a gain of nearly 40%. (msn.com) Public cloud listings show a wide spread in what customers actually pay. GetDeploying said the average on-demand B200 rental price across 23 providers was being tracked daily in April 2026, while DataStorage listed entry prices starting around $2.25 an hour and other market guides showed on-demand rates above $6 an hour at some providers. (getdeploying.com) (datastorage.com) (deploybase.ai) Nvidia has pitched Blackwell as the chip generation for “the age of AI reasoning,” and the company says the architecture is now in full production. If rental markets keep tightening, the cost of using those systems may stay elevated even as more Blackwell capacity comes online. (nvidia.com)
