Nvidia B200 Price Hits $8.01/Hr as GPU Costs Diverge

Renting a Nvidia B200 by the hour now costs more per unit of AI compute than renting an older H100, and the gap is widening instead of closing. According to a September 25, 2026 market analysis published on the SemiAnalysis GPU pricing index, B200 cloud-rental rates climbed 79% over three months to reach $8.01 per GPU-hour. That single figure captures a pricing pattern that breaks with how GPU markets normally behave: newer chips are supposed to get cheaper per unit of useful work as supply ramps, not more expensive.

The shift matters well beyond the spreadsheets of cloud-compute brokers. It touches every AI startup renting GPUs by the hour, every hyperscaler budgeting 2027 capital expenditure, and every developer wondering why access to…