GPU Cloud Pricing · Ampere
The GPU that built the LLM era. Still abundant, still capable, and now priced well below Hopper for training and 70B-class inference.
GPU.ai rates are the live fleet floor — the cheapest provider with stock, passed through at cost. Competitor rates are public on-demand list prices.
| Provider | $ / GPU / hr |
|---|---|
| GPU.ai — Secure Cloud | $1.07 |
| GPU.ai — Community Cloud | $0.880 |
| CoreWeave | $2.21 |
| AWS | $5.12 |
| Azure | $4.10 |
Need scale? Real 8× A100 80GB nodes are in inventory from $1.07/GPU/hr.
Available regions: Canada Central · Europe East · Europe West · US Central · US East · US West
GPU.ai prices are read live from our aggregated fleet of 12+ GPU clouds and normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate (a 8× node's price is divided by its GPU count). We charge the provider's raw rate with zero markup and bill per second. Competitor figures are each provider's public on-demand list rate for the closest equivalent SKU — never spot, reserved, or committed-use discounts. Stock counts reflect launchable inventory, not theoretical capacity. Last updated 2026-08-17; this page refreshes hourly.
| Architecture | Ampere |
| VRAM | 80 GB HBM2e |
| Memory bandwidth | 2,039 GB/s |
| FP16 tensor (dense) | 312 TFLOPS |
| CUDA cores | 6,912 |
| Power (TDP) | 400 W |
| Interconnect | NVLink 3 (600 GB/s) |
| Released | 2020 |
Minimum A100 80GB count needed to hold popular open models in VRAM, at FP16 and 4-bit quantization.
| Model | Params | FP16 | 4-bit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 8B | 8B | 1× A100 80GB | 1× A100 80GB |
| Mistral 7B | 7B | 1× A100 80GB | 1× A100 80GB |
| Gemma 2 27B | 27B | 1× A100 80GB | 1× A100 80GB |
| Qwen2.5 32B | 32B | 1× A100 80GB | 1× A100 80GB |
| Llama 3.1 70B | 70B | 4× A100 80GB | 1× A100 80GB |
| Qwen2.5 72B | 72B | 4× A100 80GB | 1× A100 80GB |
| Mixtral 8x22B | 141B MoE | 8× A100 80GB | 2× A100 80GB |
| Llama 3.1 405B | 405B | Doesn't fit | 4× A100 80GB |
| FLUX.1 dev | 12B | 1× A100 80GB | 1× A100 80GB |
| SDXL | 3.5B | 1× A100 80GB | 1× A100 80GB |
| Whisper large-v3 | 1.5B | 1× A100 80GB | 1× A100 80GB |
Weights-only estimates with a 20% margin for KV cache and activations at moderate context. Long contexts, large batches, and training need substantially more memory.
A100 80GB cloud instances on GPU.ai currently start at $0.880 per GPU per hour, billed per second. That is the live floor price across every provider in our fleet — we route your launch to the cheapest provider with stock and add zero markup.
The NVIDIA A100 80GB has 80 GB of HBM2e memory with up to 2,039 GB/s of bandwidth. GPU.ai reports the minimum VRAM actually delivered across our fleet, so the figure you see at launch is the figure you get.
Yes — real 8× A100 80GB nodes are launchable right now, from $1.07 per GPU per hour. We only advertise node sizes that exist in live inventory, not theoretical configurations.
GPU.ai aggregates a dozen-plus GPU clouds and passes through each provider's raw price with no markup, so the same silicon is typically far cheaper than hyperscaler list rates. The comparison table on this page shows the current public on-demand list prices side by side.
Billing is per second, starting when your instance is SSH-ready and stopping the moment you terminate. There are no minimum commitments, no reservation fees, and no egress surprises — you pay the listed hourly rate pro-rated to the second.