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AWS vs GCP vs Azure GPU pricing 2026 comparison: H100 on-demand AWS $6.88/GPU-hr, GCP $11.06/GPU-hr, Azure $12.29/GPU-hr. 8-GPU node: AWS p5.48xlarge $55.04/hr, GCP a3-highgpu-8g $88.49/hr, Azure ND96isr H100 v5 $98.32/hr. Reserved contracts deliver 30-72% off on-demand. B200 on AWS p6 $12.36/GPU-hr.
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Modal vs Replicate serverless GPU pricing 2026: Modal H100 $3.95/hr ($0.001097/sec), Modal A100 80GB $2.50/hr ($0.000694/sec), Modal B200 $6.25/hr; Replicate H100 $5.49/hr ($0.001525/sec), Replicate A100 80GB $5.04/hr ($0.001400/sec), Replicate B200 2x $9.95/hr. Modal cold-starts ~5s; Replicate ~60s+ on private deployments.
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Vast.ai GPU rental pricing 2026: H100 SXM marketplace floor $1.33/hr interruptible (Jul 2026); H100 PCIe unverified $0.90-$1.60/hr, datacenter-verified $1.50-$2.27/hr; H200 verified $3.50-$5.50/hr; B200 intermittent $6-$12/hr; A100 80GB $0.79/hr. Per-second billing, host-level reliability, 50%+ savings with interruptible tier.
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CoreWeave GPU pricing 2026 per-hour: HGX H100 8x $49.24 on-demand / $19.71 spot = $6.16/$2.46 per GPU; HGX B200 8x $68.80 on-demand / $34.11 spot = $8.60/$4.26 per GPU; GB200 NVL72 4-GPU $42.00 on-demand = $10.50 per GPU; GH200 1-GPU $6.50 on-demand. Reserved contracts up to 60% off, sales-negotiated. 8-GPU minimum on most nodes.
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RunPod GPU pricing 2026 per-hour: H100 PCIe Community $1.99 / Secure $2.89; H100 SXM Community $2.69 / Secure $3.29; H200 Community $3.59 / Secure $4.59; B200 Community $5.98 / Secure $6.79; B300 Community $6.94 / Secure $7.89; A100 SXM Community $1.39 / Secure $1.59; L40S Community $0.79 / Secure $0.99. Per-second billing, two tiers (Community vs Secure).
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Lambda Labs GPU pricing 2026 per-hour: H100 PCIe 1x $3.29/hr; H100 SXM 1x $4.29/hr; H100 SXM 8x $3.99/GPU-hr; B200 SXM 1x $6.99/hr; B200 SXM 8x $6.69/GPU-hr; A100 PCIe 40GB $1.99/hr; Reserved 1-Click Cluster 16-GPU HGX H100 from $6.16/GPU-hr down to $5.54/GPU-hr at 256-GPU scale.
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H100 GPU rental cost per hour 2026: cheapest verified rate Vast.ai $1.49/GPU-hr interruptible (Jul 2026); RunPod Community Cloud H100 PCIe $1.99/GPU-hr; Lambda H100 SXM $3.99/GPU-hr; CoreWeave HGX H100 $6.16/GPU-hr on-demand. Compare 17 providers and reserve-vs-on-demand discount math.
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ChatGPT Enterprise pricing 2026 — quote-only with reported $45-$75 per seat per month (~$60 typical, $40 at 5,000+ seats) and a ~150-seat minimum on annual prepay. Business plan $20/seat/mo annual ($25 monthly, 2-seat min). Token-based billing at GPT-6 Astra $10/$50 per 1M tokens.
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LLM fine-tuning cost comparison 2026 — OpenAI GPT-4.1 SFT $25/MTok training, $100/hr RFT o-series with $5,000 job cap; Vertex AI per-token + 1.5x base inference for tuned; Bedrock $0.0785/min/CMU Custom Model Import; Together AI $0.48-$2.90 per 1M training tokens. Hidden costs add 15-40%.
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OpenRouter pricing 2026 — pay-as-you-go 5.5% credit fee with $0.80 minimum per purchase; BYOK free up to $25,000/mo list-price inference then 5%; Enterprise free up to $200,000/mo; 300+ models, 80+ providers. Token rates pass through with no per-token markup.
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DeepSeek API pricing 2026 — V4 Flash $0.14 input / $0.28 output per 1M tokens (cheapest major LLM); V4 Pro $0.44/$0.87 (75% promo until May 31 2026); V3.2 $0.28/$0.42 with 128K context; R1 $0.55/$2.19 reasoning with separate CoT tokens. Cache 90% off input.
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Azure OpenAI vs AWS Bedrock vs Vertex AI pricing 2026: Foundry exclusive on OpenAI GPT-5 family + 1,700+ models + cached inputs ~90% off + PTU 30-50% off PAYG; Bedrock 100+ models no base fee; Vertex 200+ Gemini-exclusive + batch 50% off. Hidden costs add 10-20% across all.
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