I thought I found a cheap H100. I was wrong.

I thought I found a great deal on an H100. ~$2.50/hour. Way cheaper than what I’d seen elsewhere. On paper, it looked like a no-brainer. It wasn’t. The mistake I made Like most people, I compared GPU providers based on: hourly price That’s how every pricing page is structured. So naturally, that’s how we evaluate them. But after actually running workloads, it became obvious: the hourly rate is one of the least important numbers. What actually matters: cost per useful compute The real question is