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B200 vs H200 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 H200 SXM
$0.774/hr
OVHcloud · median $4.59 · 58 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
H200 SXM
live panel, 2026-09-27
| B200 | H200 SXM | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| ARCHITECTURE | Blackwell | Hopper |
| LAUNCHED | 2025 | 2024 |
| MEMORY | 192 GB HBM3e | 141 GB HBM3e |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 8 TB/s | 4.8 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
B200 vs H200 SXM
B200 more than doubles compute and adds FP4 at 1.4x the memory. If your stack cannot use FP8/FP4 well, the realized gain shrinks - and H200s are far easier to rent today.
H200 SXM vs B200
B200 adds ~2.3x dense compute and 8 TB/s, at 1000 W and early-cycle prices. H200 is the mature, available, usually cheaper option.
Workload fit
B200: frontier pre-training, fp4 inference, large moe training. H200 SXM: large-model inference, memory-bound training, moe serving.
B200 VS H200 SXM - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, B200 or H200 SXM?
By today's published on-demand rates: B200 starts at $2.490/GPU/hr (median $6.25, 36 providers) and H200 SXM starts at $0.774/GPU/hr (median $4.59, 58 providers). The cheapest live listing is the H200 SXM at OVHcloud. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
B200 or H200 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. H200 SXM: The H200 is an H100 with the memory subsystem rebuilt: 141 GB of HBM3e at 4.8 TB/s versus 80 GB at 3.35. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent B200 and H200 SXM?
36 providers publish B200 rates and 58 publish H200 SXM rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.
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