# Cloud GPU pricing, October 2026: what an H100, H200, B200 or B300 costs per hour

> Listed per GPU-hour prices for B300, B200, H200, H100, A100, L40S, L4 and RTX cards as of October 8, 2026, with a training-run cost example.

Source: https://www.nodus-compute.ai/blog/cloud-gpu-pricing-october-2026/
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**Short answer (Oct 8, 2026):** the [Nodus pricing page](https://www.nodus-compute.ai/pricing/) lists an H100 SXM 80 GB at $2.60/hr, H200 SXM at $3.59/hr, B200 at $5.50/hr and B300 at $6.94/hr. Consumer and prosumer cards go much lower: an RTX 4090 is $0.29/hr and an RTX 3090 is $0.18/hr. Modal’s listed rates for the same data center GPUs run from 2% higher (B300) to about 2.5x higher (L40S) depending on the card.

Prices below are per GPU-hour, USD, taken from the public Nodus pricing page on October 8, 2026, which lists Modal’s published rate beside each one.

## Data center GPUs

|GPU|VRAM|Nodus|Modal|
|-|-|-|-|
|B300|288 GB|$6.943|$7.099|
|B200|180 GB|$5.500|$6.250|
|H200 SXM|141 GB|$3.593|$4.540|
|H100 SXM|80 GB|$2.600|$3.949|
|A100|80 GB|$1.090|$2.498|
|A100|40 GB|$0.904|$2.099|
|RTX PRO 6000|96 GB|$1.350|$3.031|
|L40S|48 GB|$0.793|$1.951|
|L4|24 GB|$0.430|$0.799|

## Budget and prosumer GPUs

|GPU|VRAM|Nodus|
|-|-|-|
|RTX 5090|32 GB|$0.480|
|RTX 4090|24 GB|$0.290|
|RTX 3090|24 GB|$0.180|
|RTX 6000 Ada|48 GB|$0.743|
|RTX A6000|48 GB|$0.333|
|RTX A4000|16 GB|$0.173|

## Which one should you rent?

* **Fine-tuning a 7B to 14B model with LoRA:** a 48 GB card (L40S, A6000) or a 24 GB card with QLoRA. A100 80 GB if you want full fine-tunes of small models.
* **Full fine-tunes and pretraining at scale:** H100 or H200. H200’s 141 GB helps with long context and larger batch sizes.
* **Serving frontier-size open models:** B200 or B300. B300’s 288 GB per GPU means fewer GPUs per replica, which often lowers cost per token even though the hourly rate is higher.
* **Experiments, evals and small jobs:** RTX 4090 / 5090 at under $0.50/hr are hard to beat.

## What the hourly rate does not tell you

1. **Boot and teardown.** Some platforms bill from machine creation to deletion. On Nodus the bill is split into `Boot`, `Running` and `Teardown` segments so you can see it.
2. **Price changes mid-run.** Nodus freezes the rate when the machine is chosen for the whole run.
3. **Interruptions.** Spot capacity is cheaper, but only if your job checkpoints. Otherwise one preemption can wipe out the savings. See our [preemption guide](https://www.nodus-compute.ai/docs/guides/checkpoints/).
4. **Reserved terms.** For multi-month commitments on B200/B300, reserved pricing is quoted separately and depends on term length, location and interconnect. Nodus handles these through [Reserved Compute](https://www.nodus-compute.ai/reserved-compute/).

## FAQ

**What is the cheapest H100 per hour in October 2026?** The Nodus pricing page lists an H100 SXM 80 GB at $2.60/hr as of Oct 8, 2026. Run `nodus run --dry-run` for the estimate for your exact job.

**How much does a B300 cost per hour?** The Nodus pricing page lists a B300 at $6.94/hr as of Oct 8, 2026. Reserved terms are quoted per request.

**Is there a free tier?** New Nodus accounts get a $30 starter grant valid for 30 days.

We refresh this table monthly. Live prices: [nodus-compute.ai/pricing](https://www.nodus-compute.ai/pricing/)