Rent NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB) in the Cloud

Cloud NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB) pricing in July 2026: on-demand starts at $1.10 per hour (cheapest at Vast.ai), spot at $0.79 per hour (cheapest at Novita AI), reserved ~up to 40% below on-demand.

For reference, 6 providers currently list NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB) capacity. Differences in interconnect, regions, and SLA explain why rates span a wide band — the lowest-cost isn't always the right answer for multi-node training or regulated real-time serving.

Rent NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB) today from Vast.ai, Massed Compute, or RunPod — compare live pricing and spin up in minutes.

NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB) packs 80 GB of HBM2e with 2,039 GB/s of bandwidth, delivers 312 TFLOPS of FP16 compute, and operates at 400W. It's based on the Ampere architecture introduced in 2020.

For most AI use cases this matters in three ways: 1) how big a model you can load; 2) how fast attention runs (bandwidth-bound); 3) how fast MatMul-heavy ops run (compute-bound). NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB) tends to sit in a balanced spot on all three — which is why it shows up repeatedly in cloud catalogues aimed at ML teams.

Ready to deploy? Vast.ai has NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB) from $1.10/hr. Massed Compute and RunPod also carry it.

How fast is NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB)? The raw numbers: 312 TFLOPS FP16, 19.5 TFLOPS FP32, 2,039 GB/s memory bandwidth. In mixed-precision AI jobs, that translates to sustained throughput comfortably above older generations.

For model training, expect wall-clock times that scale predictably from those TFLOPS figures at large batch sizes. For low-latency inference, real-world latency is dominated by memory bandwidth and by how much of your KV-cache fits on-chip — so the 2,039 GB/s and 80 GB capacity matter more than headline TFLOPS.

Launch a NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB) instance on Vast.ai from $1.10/hr — or check Massed Compute and RunPod for alternative regions and availability.

Cloud providers carrying NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB) in July 2026: Cherry Servers, Massed Compute, Novita AI, RunPod, Vast.ai, Vultr (6 total). Vast.ai has the most affordable on-demand rate ($1.10 per hour); Novita AI has the most affordable spot rate ($0.79 per hour).

When evaluating, go beyond the per-hour rate: check typical queue times, whether instances are bare-metal or virtualised, what interconnect is available for multi-GPU model training, and what support channels you get. These factors often matter more than a 10-15% rate difference.

Rent NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB) today from Vast.ai, Massed Compute, or RunPod — compare live pricing and spin up in minutes.

NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB) shines for AI training, fine-tuning, HPC, inference. The card's 80 GB of VRAM and Ampere-generation tensor cores make it a strong match for AI AI workloads that push batch sizes hard and benefit from modern mixed-precision support.

It's overkill for toy experiments and under-sized for the largest frontier models, but covers the vast middle: fine-tuning open-source transformers, training diffusion models, running batch real-time serving pipelines, and supporting interactive workflows that need more VRAM than a consumer card offers.

Top cloud providers offering NVIDIA A100 SXM (80GB): Vast.ai (from $1.10/hr), Massed Compute, and RunPod. Start comparing live rates.