Nvidia’s B200 GPU rental rates surge 74% in three months

Renting Nvidia's Blackwell chips keeps getting pricier as AI demand outpaces supply across multiple pricing trackers Renting an Nvidia B200 GPU now costs a lot more than it did last quarter. Rental rates for the chip climbed 74% over the past three months, according to a GPU rental marketplace. Research firm SemiAnalysis recorded a 79% increase in B200 on-demand rental rates, bringing the price to $8.01 per GPU-hour by the end of September 2026. The Ornn Compute Price Index tells a similar story over a slightly later window. Between late July and late October 2026, it showed the B200 rental price rising from $6.58 to $9.76 per GPU-hour, a 48% increase. A wide spread between the cheap seats and the premium boxes Live listings from early November 2026 show just how fragmented this market is. Across roughly 10 to 20 cloud service providers, on-demand B200 rates ranged from $1.89 to $16.11 per GPU-hour. The top of that range belongs to the big names. Major providers such as Google Cloud and AWS listed rates exceeding $14 to $16 per GPU-hour, while smaller players sat far lower. Most of the action happens in the middle. Typical on-demand medians landed between $6 and $8.50 per GPU-hour....