How to use PetaPrice
Find the cheapest GPU for your workload in a few steps, and what to look for when choosing one.
Using PetaPrice step by step
Choose what to optimize for
On the home page, pick FLOPS for training and compute-bound work, VRAM to fit the biggest model per dollar, or Bandwidth for LLM token generation. For FLOPS, also pick the precision you run in, usually FP16/BF16.
Filter to GPUs that fit
Set a minimum VRAM so your model fits, the number of GPUs per instance, and on-demand, spot or reserved pricing. You can also filter by vendor, provider headquarters (EU only) and managed cloud vs. community hosts.
Read the ranking
The ranking sorts GPUs by value for money at their cheapest matching offer. The label shows how much more each GPU costs per unit than the best. The sweet-spot chart plots price against performance: up and to the left is better.
Open a GPU
A GPU's page lists every provider renting it, each configuration with its price, a daily price history and the cost at every precision. Tap a provider to see its configurations and the link to rent.
Compare GPUs side by side
Pick up to four GPUs in Compare to see prices, compute per dollar, memory, bandwidth and providers next to each other.
Check the price and rent
Prices are indicative list prices refreshed about every 2 hours. Follow the Rent link and confirm the price on the provider's website before you book.
Choosing a GPU for your workload
What matters for each kind of job, and the GPUs that are the best value for it right now.
LLM inference
What matters: Enough memory for weights and KV cache, then memory bandwidth: generating tokens is bandwidth-bound.
Best value right now · Best bandwidth per dollar with 80 GB or more
- 1Instinct MI355X$2.59/h$0.32/TB/s·h
- 2Instinct MI325X$2.00/h$0.33/TB/s·h
- 3Instinct MI300X$1.85/h$0.35/TB/s·h
Training and fine-tuning
What matters: Dense BF16 or FP8 compute, memory for weights, gradients and optimizer state, and NVLink between GPUs.
Best value right now · Best FP8 compute per dollar, datacenter GPUs
- 1Instinct MI355X$2.59/h$0.51/PFLOP·h
- 2Instinct MI300X$1.85/h$0.71/PFLOP·h
- 3B200 SXM$3.20/h$0.71/PFLOP·h
Experiments and small models
What matters: A low hourly price and at least 24 GB. Consumer and workstation cards are often the cheapest way to start.
Best value right now · Cheapest GPU-hour with 24 GB or more
Open this view →Scientific computing (FP64)
What matters: Double-precision throughput. Many AI GPUs, including Blackwell and all consumer cards, have little of it.
Best value right now · Best FP64 compute per dollar
- 1Instinct MI300X$1.85/h$11.3/PFLOP·h
- 2Instinct MI325X$2.00/h$12.2/PFLOP·h
- 3V100 SXM2 16GB$0.19/h$24.4/PFLOP·h
Which precision?
Lower precision is faster and needs less memory, if your GPU runs it natively and your model tolerates it.
| Format | Bits | Used for | Native on |
|---|---|---|---|
| FP64 | 64 | Scientific simulation | Any |
| FP32 | 32 | Non-tensor work, numerically sensitive code | Any |
| TF32 | 19 | FP32 training on tensor cores | Blackwell Ultra, Blackwell, Hopper, Ada Lovelace, CDNA 3, Xe-HPC, Ampere |
| FP16 / BF16 | 16 | The standard for training and serving LLMs | Blackwell Ultra, Blackwell, CDNA 4, Hopper, Ada Lovelace, CDNA 3, Gaudi, TPU, Trainium, RDNA 3, Xe-HPC, Inferentia, Ampere, CDNA 2, CDNA |
| FP8 | 8 | Faster training and inference on recent GPUs | Blackwell Ultra, Blackwell, CDNA 4, Hopper, Ada Lovelace, CDNA 3, Gaudi, Trainium, Inferentia |
| INT8 | 8 | Quantized inference | Blackwell Ultra, Blackwell, CDNA 4, Hopper, Ada Lovelace, CDNA 3, TPU, RDNA 3, Xe-HPC, Inferentia, Ampere, CDNA 2, CDNA, Turing |
| FP4 | 4 | Quantized inference of large models | Blackwell Ultra, Blackwell, CDNA 4 |
Before you rent
- The model fits in VRAM, including KV cache or optimizer state.
- The GPU runs your precision natively (FP8 and FP4 only on recent generations).
- Multi-GPU jobs: SXM with NVLink, and InfiniBand across servers.
- The price type fits the job: spot only if you checkpoint.
- Storage, egress and the CPU and RAM that come with the instance.
- The final price on the provider's website.
Tips
- Filters are saved in the URL, so you can bookmark or share any view.
- Spot capacity is often half the price or less, but can be stopped at any time. Use it for jobs that checkpoint.
- Compare dense FLOPS at the precision you actually use: FP8 and FP4 numbers only help if your software uses them.
- Each provider's page shows every GPU it rents and how its prices compare with the cheapest provider.