Oracle Cloud A100 Pricing Options
All available A100 instance types on Oracle Cloud, sorted by lowest hourly rate.
| Region | Instance | Type | Price/hr | GPUs | vCPUs | RAM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| us-ashburn-1 | BM.GPU.A100-v2.8 (8x A100) | On-Demand | $20.0000/hr Cheapest | 8× GPU | 128 vCPU | 2048 GB |
About Oracle Cloud A100 Cloud Pricing
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offers GPU compute through their BM.GPU series, with aggressive pricing that often undercuts AWS and Azure. Oracle has invested heavily in AI infrastructure partnerships.
Why Choose Oracle Cloud for A100
- Aggressive pricing vs other hyperscalers
- Bare-metal GPU instances with no virtualization overhead
- RDMA cluster networking for distributed training
- Free tier and always-free instances for experimentation
Best suited for: Enterprise teams evaluating alternatives to AWS/Azure/GCP who want hyperscaler reliability at lower prices.
A100 Technical Overview
The A100 comes in 40 GB and 80 GB variants. The 80 GB version is essential for fine-tuning models over 13B parameters. MIG (Multi-Instance GPU) partitioning allows splitting a single A100 into up to 7 isolated GPU instances for smaller workloads.
Pricing Analysis
Oracle Cloud's cheapest A100 option starts at $20.0000/hr, which is 420% above the market average of $3.8477/hr. Oracle Cloud currently offers on-demand pricing only for A100. This means no commitment required, but you won't access the deeper discounts available from reserved or spot pricing.
Note: Oracle's GPU pricing is often 20–40% below AWS for equivalent configurations. Their bare-metal instances provide full hardware access without virtualization overhead.
Market context: A100 pricing has dropped 30–50% since H100 became widely available. It remains the best value for workloads that don't require the raw throughput of Hopper-generation hardware.
Top Alternatives to Oracle Cloud for A100
Side-by-side cost comparison vs the cheapest Oracle Cloud A100 rate ($20.0000/hr).
| Provider | Price/hr | Type | vs Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud | $29.3912/hr | On-Demand | +47% more vs Oracle Cloud |
| Azure | $32.7700/hr | On-Demand | +64% more vs Oracle Cloud |
| AWS | $40.9659/hr | On-Demand | +105% more vs Oracle Cloud |
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