Week 25 · 2026

Week 25 GPU Cost Pulse: B200 Below $2.60 — Blackwell Is Now the Baseline

📅 June 15–21, 2026 🏢 32 providers tracked 📊 396 pricing records 📡 Data: GridStackHub.ai

According to GridStackHub.ai data for the week of June 15, 2026, the cheapest B200 GPU rental drops to $2.58/hr on Vultr — down another 7.5% week-over-week as Blackwell supply crosses the inflection point. Three weeks ago, CoreWeave listed B200 at $4.26/hr. Today that same workload costs 39.4% less. The consumer spot market is still hot: RTX 4090 spot on Vast.ai surged a third consecutive week, and RTX 3090 is up again after last month's 131% spike. We track 32 providers and 396 pricing records every week so you don't have to.

The Number That Matters This Week

B200 at $2.58/hr. Just three weeks ago CoreWeave listed B200 at $4.26/hr — making this a 39.4% price collapse in 21 days. That's not a discount. That's a regime change. Blackwell is no longer premium-only; it's the new default inference tier.

Blackwell Deep Dive: B200 / B300 / GB200

Blackwell pricing is in free-fall relative to its launch trajectory. B200 and B300 are converging fast, with the B300 now representing the cheapest entry into Blackwell architecture.

GPUProviderOn-DemandWoW Change1-Yr CommitMemory
B200 192GBVultr$2.58/hr▼ -7.5%$1.99/hr192GB HBM3e
B200 192GBLambda Labs$2.91/hr▼ -4.6%$2.24/hr192GB HBM3e
B200 192GBCoreWeave$3.10/hr▼ -3.2%$2.39/hr192GB HBM3e
B300 144GBLambda Labs$2.31/hr▼ -5.7%$1.79/hr144GB HBM3e
GB200 NVL72CoreWeave$7.40/hr➡ Flat1.44TB HBM3e
GB200 NVL72Crusoe$6.95/hrNEW1.44TB HBM3e

Week 25 Blackwell headline: CoreWeave's B200 at $4.26/hr (Week 22) was the ceiling. At $3.10/hr today it's already down 27% — and Vultr at $2.58/hr shows where the floor is heading. Crusoe entering GB200 territory with a cheaper $6.95/hr list is the first real competition on the NVL72 tier.

Full GPU Index — Week 25

32 providers · 396 pricing records · Updated weekly

GPUCheapest ProviderOn-DemandWoW Change1-Yr CommitMemory
GB200 NVL72Crusoe$6.95/hrNEW1.44TB HBM3e
B200 192GBVultr$2.58/hr▼ -7.5%$1.99/hr192GB HBM3e
B300 144GBLambda Labs$2.31/hr▼ -5.7%$1.79/hr144GB HBM3e
H100 SXM 80GBCoreWeave$2.14/hr▼ -2.3%$1.74/hr80GB HBM3e
H200 141GBLambda Labs$1.84/hr▼ -2.6%$1.42/hr141GB HBM3e
L40S 48GBVultr$0.56/hr▼ -5.1%$0.43/hr48GB GDDR6
A100 80GB SXM4TensorDock$0.85/hr▼ -2.3%$0.66/hr80GB HBM2e
A100 40GB PCIeLambda Labs$1.12/hr▼ -2.6%$0.87/hr40GB HBM2e
RTX 4090 24GBVast.ai (spot)$0.44/hr▲ +13.9%24GB GDDR6X
RTX 3090 24GBVast.ai (spot)$0.31/hr▲ +12.1%24GB GDDR6
AMD MI300X 192GBThunder Compute$1.85/hr➡ Flat$1.42/hr192GB HBM3

Rates as of June 15, 2026. Spot rates are marketplace medians — individual host rates vary.

Top Price Movers — Week 25

  1. Vultr B200 ▼ -7.5% → $2.58/hr
    Largest single-week B200 drop since launch. Vultr quietly expanded Blackwell capacity in Frankfurt and Chicago regions. The $4.26/hr CoreWeave floor from three weeks ago now looks like history.
  2. Vast.ai RTX 4090 ▲ +13.9% → $0.44/hr (spot)
    Third consecutive week of consumer spot price increases. The RTX 3090 surge (+131.7% in Week 23) that seemed anomalous has now spread upward through the consumer tier. Vast.ai marketplace hosts are pulling capacity — or demand for consumer-tier inference is climbing faster than supply. Watch this signal closely.
  3. Lambda B300 ▼ -5.7% → $2.31/hr
    B300 (Blackwell Ultra) is now the cheapest Blackwell SKU tracked. If this holds, it flips the expected pecking order — new architecture undercutting older Blackwell. Lambda is clearly using B300 aggressively to win inference workload migration.
  4. Vast.ai RTX 3090 ▲ +12.1% → $0.31/hr (spot)
    Consumer spot surge is broad-based. Two consecutive weeks of double-digit gains across the Vast.ai consumer tier signals a structural shift, not noise. The most likely explanation: small-model inference demand is routing to consumer GPUs as H100 moves up-market.
  5. Crusoe GB200 NVL72 NEW → $6.95/hr
    First meaningful competition to CoreWeave on GB200 NVL72 capacity. $6.95/hr vs CoreWeave's $7.40/hr is a 6.1% discount on the most expensive GPU tier in the index. For enterprises locked into NVL72 workloads, this is the first real alternative since CoreWeave's launch.

Vast.ai Surge — Consumer Spot Deep Dive

The Vast.ai marketplace has been the most volatile data source in the GridStackHub network for three consecutive weeks. Here's the pattern:

GPUWeek 23Week 24 (est.)Week 253-Week Change
RTX 3090 spot+131.7%+12.1%+12.1%🔥
RTX 4090 spotbaseline+8%+13.9%📈
A10G spot-51.8%+6%+5%stabilizing
A40 spot+54.4%-8%+4%reverting

The read: Consumer tier is seeing a demand surge, likely driven by: (1) Smaller open-source models (Llama 3.2, Phi-3) running efficiently on 24GB consumer cards; (2) Cost-sensitive teams hitting RTX 4090 as the cheapest viable inference GPU; (3) Some host capacity leaving the Vast.ai pool (hosts upgrading hardware). H100 spot inventory on Vast.ai remains stable at ~$1.87/hr, suggesting the surge is specific to the consumer tier, not broad GPU demand tightening.

Provider Comparison Table — Key Workloads

H100 80GB SXM — Best Rates by Provider

ProviderOn-DemandSpotNotes
CoreWeave$2.14/hrLowest H100 on-demand tracked. NVLink clusters available.
Vast.ai$1.87/hr$1.35/hrMarketplace — verify host reliability score
RunPod$2.10/hr$1.79/hrSolid spot availability, good uptime SLA
Lambda Labs$2.49/hrNo spot, but consistent guaranteed availability
TensorDock$2.50/hr$1.60/hrBare-metal, strong for batch training
AWS (P5)$3.93/hrEnterprise SLA; 4.9x cost of Vast.ai spot
GCP (A3)$9.80/hrFull VM pricing — avoid unless compliance-required

A100 80GB — Best Rates by Provider

ProviderOn-DemandSpotNotes
TensorDock$0.85/hr$0.62/hrCheapest A100 on-demand tracked
Thunder Compute$0.78/hrClose second; good for long-running jobs
Vast.ai~$0.80/hr$0.35/hrMarketplace variance high — filter by reliability
CoreWeave$1.19/hrPremium, but guaranteed multi-GPU configs
RunPod$0.99/hr$0.74/hrCommunity Cloud; good value
Lambda Labs$1.12/hrConsistent, no spot available

B200 192GB — All Tracked Providers

ProviderOn-DemandSpotNotes
Vultr$2.58/hrCheapest B200 tracked this week ▼ -7.5%
Lambda Labs$2.91/hrStrong availability; good SLA
CoreWeave$3.10/hrDown from $4.26/hr (Wk 22) — still premium
RunPod$3.19/hrNew B200 tier added June 2026
Spheron$2.12/hr$2.12/hrSpot-equivalent; checkpoint-friendly

30-Day Forecast — Week 25 Edition

5 Things to Watch This Week

  1. Blackwell hits $2.58/hr — B200 down 39% from its CoreWeave peak of $4.26/hr three weeks ago. This is the pricing regime shift that changes the inference calculus permanently.
  2. Consumer spot surge: week 3 — Vast.ai RTX 4090 and RTX 3090 are both up again. If this continues into Week 26, small-model inference demand has structurally outpaced consumer GPU supply on marketplace networks.
  3. B300 undercuts B200 on Lambda — At $2.31/hr vs B200's $2.58/hr floor, newer Blackwell Ultra is cheaper than older Blackwell. That's the supply chain catching up fast.
  4. Crusoe enters GB200 NVL72 at $6.95/hr — First CoreWeave alternative for the biggest Blackwell configs. Enterprises on NVL72 workloads should price-check now.
  5. H100 sub-$2.00/hr coming by August — At $2.14/hr and declining 2–3%/week, H100 hits the $2.00/hr barrier within 6 weeks. That's a psychological threshold that will drive another wave of migration from API services to self-hosted inference.

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Source: GridStackHub GPU Pricing Database — 32 providers, 396 pricing records. Updated weekly. CC BY 4.0

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