compute.cheap Lists H100 at $1.15/hr and H200 at $1.39/hr Behind a 2,000-Hour Prepay Wall
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compute.cheap posted on Show HN on 2026-09-07 with H100 at $1.15/hour interruptible and $1.19 reserved, H200 at $1.39 interruptible and $1.99 reserved, and GB300 and B200 sold out as of 2026-09-06. The business model is the interesting part: a 2,000 GPU-hour minimum reservation with 50% prepaid upfront to secure capacity and the balance billed during use, which is a commodity futures structure rather than a cloud SKU. It is the same seat-to-commitment inversion happening in AI SaaS pricing, applied one layer down at the metal.