# $2/hr H100s vs Amazon's $12

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-06-13
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** A Decentralized Compute Marketplace with Greg Osuri (Software Engineering Daily)
- **Watch at:** 00:25:22 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O3HfvHSfqk&t=1522s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-06-13-2-hr-h100s-vs-amazon-s-12-r2mz/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "$2/hr H100s vs Amazon's $12," A Decentralized Compute Marketplace with Greg Osuri (Software Engineering Daily), 13 Jun 2024, 00:25:22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O3HfvHSfqk&t=1522s

## Quote — verbatim

> Akash will start offering H100s at around $2, which is the cheapest ever you can find. For comparison, Amazon offers H100, if you're lucky, for $12 an hour. Akash is doing the same exact chip for $2 an hour.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On high-density GPU pricing as incentivized supply comes online; earlier he notes 95% utilization on A100s and that no cloud sells on-demand H100s without multi-year, multi-million-dollar leases.