Nvidia A16 vs Nvidia H100

The H100 is newer, with 5x the memory and 17x the bandwidth. The A16 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

5x more on H100

A16: 16 GB

H100: 80 GB

Memory bandwidth

17x higher on H100

A16: 200 GB/s

H100: 3,350 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

92% cheaper on A16

A16: $0.11 /GPU/hr

H100: $1.30 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	A16	H100
On-demand	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11	$3.39 /GPU/hr from $1.30
Reserved	No reserved listings	$3.14 /GPU/hr from $1.53 (1 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.07	$2.00 /GPU/hr from $0.39

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for on-demand and spot on the A16: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

A16 vs H100 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A16	H100	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	80 GB HBM3 94 GB on NVL	5x more on H100
Bandwidth	200 GB/s	3,350 GB/s 2,000 GB/s on PCIe 3,938 GB/s on NVL	17x higher on H100
Bus width	128-bit	5,120-bit	40x wider on H100
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	1,979 TFLOPS	H100 only
FP16 / BF16	17.9 TFLOPS	989.5 TFLOPS	55x higher on H100
INT8	35.9 TOPS	1,979 TOPS	55x higher on H100
FP32	4.5 TFLOPS	67 TFLOPS	15x higher on H100
FP64	Not supported	34 TFLOPS	H100 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	NVLink 900 GB/s NVLink 600 GB/s on PCIe, NVL	NVLink on H100 only
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2022	17 months newer on H100
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8

Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: A16 datasheet and H100 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	A16	H100
Vast.ai USA	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM
Vultr USA	$0.47 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	--	$1.30 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM
HyperAI Hong Kong	--	$1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$1.98 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Hyperstack UK	--	$2.50 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
EmpirioLabs AI USA	--	$2.60 /GPU/hr On-demand
Jarvislabs India	--	$2.69 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM
Massed Compute USA	--	$2.73 /GPU/hr On-demand