GPU Rent Hub GPUsH100 SXM vs A100 SXM

H100 SXM vs A100 SXM: specs, price and which to rent

GPU Rent Hub rents both cards as dedicated bare metal in three United States datacenters, paid in Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, Monero, Solana or Litecoin with no identity verification. The H100 SXM is $1,690 a month and the A100 SXM is $990 a month. Everything below is measured, not argued.

Updated 2026-09-01

$700Monthly price difference

80 GBMemory on both cards

$2.35H100 SXM per GPU-hour

$1.38A100 SXM per GPU-hour

01 Side by side

What is the difference between the H100 SXM and the A100 SXM?

Every figure is the one we rent against, taken from the same catalogue the dashboard prices from. Per-GPU-hour is the flat monthly price divided by 720 hours; you are never billed by the hour.

	H100 SXM	A100 SXM
Memory	80 GB HBM3	80 GB HBM2e
Memory bandwidth	3.35 TB/s	2.04 TB/s
Architecture	Hopper (2022)	Ampere (2020)
Cores	16,896 CUDA · 528 Tensor	6,912 CUDA · 432 Tensor
FP8	3,958 TFLOPS (sparse)	not supported
FP16	1,979 TFLOPS (sparse)	624 TFLOPS (sparse)
Interconnect	NVLink · 900 GB/s	NVLink · 600 GB/s
Board power	700 W	400 W
Host vCPU	20	16
Host RAM	251 GB	125 GB
Local NVMe	2 TB	1 TB
Weekly price	$475	$280
Monthly price	$1,690	$990
Per GPU-hour	$2.35	$1.38
Price per GB of VRAM	$21.12	$12.38
In stock now	63	78

02 Verdict

Which should you rent?

Both cards carry 80 GB, so capacity is not what decides this one. The H100 SXM supports FP8 and the A100 SXM does not, which roughly halves the memory a quantised model needs and is the largest practical difference between the two. Bandwidth is 3.35 TB/s against 2.04 TB/s, and for single-stream token generation it is bandwidth that sets the speed, not the FLOPS figure on the spec sheet. The H100 SXM costs 71% more per month, $1,690 against $990, or $2.35 against $1.38 per GPU-hour.

Work out how much VRAM your model actually needs

Rent the H100 SXM when

Multi-week training and fine-tuning runs. A 70B model in FP8 fits on one card; in BF16 it needs two.

$1,690/mo · $475/wk · specifications and stock

Rent the A100 SXM when

The cheapest 80 GB card with NVLink. 80 GB of HBM2e under $1,000 a month, the value pick for multi-week runs.

$990/mo · $280/wk · specifications and stock

03 Availability

Where each card is in stock

A dash means the card is on the waitlist in that region. The price is identical in all three, so choose on latency and stock, nothing else.

Region	H100 SXM	A100 SXM
DFW-1Dallas, TX	32	40
IAD-1Ashburn, VA	19	22
PDX-1Hillsboro, OR	12	16

Datacenter specifications and latency

04 Questions

H100 SXM against A100 SXM

Is the H100 SXM better than the A100 SXM?

For anything memory-bound the H100 SXM wins: 80 GB at 3.35 TB/s against 80 GB at 2.04 TB/s. For work that already fits in 80 GB the A100 SXM is the better buy, because it costs $990 a month against $1,690 and the job finishes either way.

What is the price difference between the H100 SXM and the A100 SXM?

At GPU Rent Hub the H100 SXM is $1,690 a month and the A100 SXM is $990, a gap of $700. Weekly terms are $475 and $280. Both prices are flat and include power, cooling, a public IPv4 and 20 TB of outbound traffic.

How much VRAM does the H100 SXM have compared to the A100 SXM?

The H100 SXM has 80 GB of HBM3 and the A100 SXM has 80 GB of HBM2e. A 70B model in FP8 fits on one card; in BF16 it needs two.

Can I rent either card without KYC?

Yes. Both are rented on the same terms: an account is a username and a password, payment is Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, Monero, Solana or Litecoin, and no identity document is requested or stored at any point.

Which one is available today?

Stock moves. As of 2026-09-01 there were 63 H100 SXM and 78 A100 SXM cards free across DFW-1, IAD-1 and PDX-1. The per-region table above comes from the same inventory the dashboard deploys against.

Can I put several H100 SXM cards in one machine?

Yes. Multi-GPU configurations sit on a single node with NVLink · 900 GB/s between the cards, and ordering two, four or eight takes 5%, 8% or 10% off the per-card price.

Rent either one by the week or the month

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