# Akash is \~80% cheaper than Amazon; H100s at $1.49 vs $5

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-09-25
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Compute: Past, Present, and Future by Akash Network founder Greg Osuri at deAI Summit 2024 (Pundi X Labs)
- **Watch at:** 00:15:29 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-4uolkTeE&t=929s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2024-09-25-akash-is-80-cheaper-than-amazon-h100s-at-1-49-vs-5-u7mq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash is \~80% cheaper than Amazon; H100s at $1.49 vs $5," Compute: Past, Present, and Future by Akash Network founder Greg Osuri at deAI Summit 2024 (Pundi X Labs), 25 Sept 2024, 00:15:29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-4uolkTeE&t=929s

## Quote — verbatim

> Apples to apples, Akash costs about 80% cheaper than Amazon... and the way you're able to get this is because Akash taps into underutilized resources, whereas \[on\] Amazon you're actually building new resources and new data centers. With GPUs, in fact, H100 on Akash cost\[s\] \[$1.49\] whereas the same resource would cost I think $5 on Amazon.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Q&A answer on why decentralized compute is cheaper; captions render the price as "$149," consistent with his usual ~$1.50/hour H100 claim.