Oracle Cloud A100-80GB Pricing Options
All available A100-80GB 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 A100-80GB 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 A100-80GB
- 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.
A100-80GB Technical Overview
The A100 80GB variant doubles the memory of the 40GB model, enabling fine-tuning of larger models without gradient checkpointing. MIG partitioning is available for running multiple smaller workloads on a single GPU.
Pricing Analysis
Oracle Cloud's cheapest A100-80GB option starts at $20.0000/hr, which is 91% above the market average of $10.4477/hr. Oracle Cloud currently offers on-demand pricing only for A100-80GB. 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: A100-80GB pricing has become very competitive as providers shift focus to H100/H200. It offers excellent value for workloads that need more VRAM than the 40GB variant but don't require Hopper performance.
Top Alternatives to Oracle Cloud for A100-80GB
Side-by-side cost comparison vs the cheapest Oracle Cloud A100-80GB rate ($20.0000/hr).
| Provider | Price/hr | Type | vs Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vultr | $0.1250/hr | On-Demand | -99% cheaper vs Oracle Cloud |
| Vast.ai | $0.6000/hr | Spot | -97% cheaper vs Oracle Cloud |
| Azure | $0.7350/hr | Spot | -96% cheaper vs Oracle Cloud |
| Shadeform | $0.9900/hr | On-Demand | -95% cheaper vs Oracle Cloud |
| RunPod | $1.0000/hr | On-Demand | -95% cheaper vs Oracle Cloud |
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