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B200 vs H100 SXM
Specs from the chip makers' datasheets; prices from the live Compute Cafe panel, refreshed hourly. Every rate is an on-demand published price with a source receipt.
CHEAPEST B200
$2.490/hr
SpotGPUs · median $6.25 · 36 providers
CHEAPEST H100 SXM
$0.890/hr
SpotGPUs · median $5.49 · 77 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
H100 SXM
live panel, 2026-09-27
| B200 | H100 SXM | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| ARCHITECTURE | Blackwell | Hopper |
| LAUNCHED | 2025 | 2022 |
| MEMORY | 192 GB HBM3e | 80 GB HBM3 |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 8 TB/s | 3.35 TB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 2.25 PFLOPS FP16/BF16 tensor dense; 4.5 PFLOPS FP8; 9 PFLOPS FP4 dense | 989 TFLOPS FP16/BF16 tensor dense (1,979 sparse); 1,979 TFLOPS FP8 dense |
| POWER DRAW | 1,000 W | 700 W |
| INTERCONNECT | NVLink 5.0 1.8 TB/s | NVLink 4.0 900 GB/s |
HOW TO CHOOSE
H100 SXM vs B200
Blackwell roughly doubles dense FP16 and adds FP4, with 192 GB at 8 TB/s. Scarce and priced accordingly - the H100 remains the value pick for most training.
Workload fit
B200: frontier pre-training, fp4 inference, large moe training. H100 SXM: llm pre-training, 70b+ fine-tuning, high-throughput inference.
B200 VS H100 SXM - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, B200 or H100 SXM?
By today's published on-demand rates: B200 starts at $2.490/GPU/hr (median $6.25, 36 providers) and H100 SXM starts at $0.890/GPU/hr (median $5.49, 77 providers). The cheapest live listing is the H100 SXM at SpotGPUs. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
B200 or H100 SXM - which should I rent?
B200: The B200 is Blackwell's datacenter flagship: roughly 2.3x the H100's dense compute, a new FP4 precision that doubles effective inference throughput, 192 GB at 8 TB/s, and NVLink 5 at 1.8 TB/s. H100 SXM: The H100 SXM is the chip the current generation of frontier models was trained on, and the benchmark every other datacenter GPU is priced against. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent B200 and H100 SXM?
36 providers publish B200 rates and 77 publish H100 SXM rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.
Full pricing: B200 · H100 SXM · all comparisons