B200 Rent Up 43% in Three Months; Electricity Is About 2% of the Price

We priced five rental GPUs from Ornn's settled index and converted each GPU-hour into the electricity it draws at NVIDIA's published maximum power. At US retail rates, power is 2% to 8% of the hourly rent.

Published October 25, 2026 · Prices settled 2026-10-24

Rent vs. power

Bar chart: 3-month change in GPU rent, with Oct 24 price and electricity share of rent per GPU

GPU	$/GPU-hour	1 month	3 months	Max power	Rent per kWh	Power share
H200	$6.20	+20.16%	+36.3%	700 W	$8.86	2.2%
B200	$9.57	+19.48%	+42.8%	1,000 W	$9.57	2.0%
H100 SXM	$3.02	+3.42%	+12.7%	700 W	$4.31	4.5%
RTX PRO 6000 WS	$1.55	+0.00%	+31.4%	600 W	$2.58	7.6%
A100 SXM4	$1.08	+5.88%	+1.9%	400 W	$2.70	7.3%

Prices: Ornn Compute Price Index, settled 2026-10-24. 3-month change from 2026-07-25 via Ornn's free public history (CSV). Max power: NVIDIA specs, linked per GPU. Retail power: BLS $0.196/kWh, 2026-09.

Method

3-month change = Oct 24 settled value ÷ Jul 25 settled value − 1.
kWh per GPU-hour = max power (W) ÷ 1000. Real draw is usually lower, so rent per kWh is a floor and power share is a ceiling.
Rent per kWh = $/GPU-hour ÷ kWh per GPU-hour.
Power share = kWh per GPU-hour × US retail $/kWh ÷ $/GPU-hour. Data centers usually pay less than retail; cooling and host overhead are not included.
The weekly index card uses the 2026-10-21 H100 value ($3.09).
No figure on this page is estimated or forecast.