I lined up five GPU cloud providers' real prices — the 'best-rated' one costs almost double

CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda and Crusoe all rent you the same Nvidia silicon. The price gap between them is bigger than most people renting compute…

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Lena Fischer · AI & Local Compute Editor

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H100 on-demand: CoreWeave $6.16/hr, Lambda $3.99/hr (1x GPU), Crusoe $3.90/hr, Nebius $3.85/hr — per each provider's own pricing and MarkTechPost's August 2026 roundup.

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B200 on-demand: CoreWeave $8.60/hr vs Lambda's $6.69/hr (8x instance) — confirmed directly on Lambda's own pricing page.

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CoreWeave posted $2.575 billion Q2 2026 revenue, up 112% YoY, with a $104 billion backlog, per its own investor release — the premium buys contracted capacity, not faster chips.

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Nebius is the only one of the five publishing B300 on-demand pricing ($7.85/hr) right now.

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Groq licensed its LPU chip design to Nvidia in December 2025 and has since refocused entirely on inference-cloud hosting rather than selling its own silicon.

Who should rent from whom

Personal projects and small fine-tuning runs: Nebius or Crusoe on-demand, or Lambda if you specifically need B200 and can pay the on-demand rate. Anything requiring guaranteed multi-month capacity…

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