How GridPup works

Last updated 12 October 2026

GridPup answers one question: what does it cost to rent a given GPU right now, and where is it cheapest? Here is exactly how the numbers are made.

Where prices come from

Every price comes directly from the cloud provider and is updated automatically; nobody types prices in by hand. The clouds page lists each provider, when its prices were last updated, and whether you can rent from it on GridPup.

How often

Each provider is checked every 15 minutes. If a check fails, we keep showing the last good prices and mark them. After two hours without a good check, that provider is hidden until it recovers.

One price unit: per GPU, per hour

Providers price differently: some per GPU, some per whole machine. GridPup converts everything to US dollars per GPU per hour so prices compare directly. A machine with eight GPUs at $20 an hour shows as $2.50. A month is 720 hours.

Cheapest and typical

• From is the lowest on-demand price any provider lists for that GPU.
• Typical is the middle price: we take each provider's median, then the median of those. A marketplace with hundreds of listings counts once, the same as a provider with one price.
• Spot from is the lowest price for capacity that can be taken back at short notice. On Vast.ai this is the lowest bid a host accepts, not a guaranteed price.

The chart's latest point and the typical price on the board are the same number.

Which offers count

• From marketplaces like Vast.ai, we only include hosts the marketplace has verified.
• A price that is missing is shown as a dash, never as $0.00.
• Some providers report how many GPUs are available but not the price. They are listed as “stock only” and never affect the price columns.
• Laptop GPUs and crypto-mining cards are left out.

Matching GPU names

Every provider spells GPU names differently: “H100 SXM”, “NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM3”, “h100_sxm”. GridPup reads each name into the chip, its version (SXM, PCIe, NVL), and its memory, so the same GPU lines up across providers. When a provider doesn't say which version it sells, we show the GPU without guessing the version.

How GridPup is paid

Some “Visit” links carry our referral code, so a provider may pay us when you sign up. That never affects ranking: offers are sorted by price, and the prices come straight from each provider.

Spot a mistake?

Tell us at gridpup.com/contact and include the provider and GPU. We read every message.