Cloud bills do not read the way marketing pages promise. A company picks a GPU instance because the sticker price looks reasonable, then the invoice shows egress charges, storage fees, and a minimum node size nobody mentioned at signup. That gap between advertised rate and real bill is why the GPU cloud providers debate has become the most contested pricing fight in cloud computing heading into late 2026.
https://tech-insider.org/aws-vs-azure-vs-gcp-gpu-cloud-pricing-2026/