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Compute Cost Index

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GPU rental prices from AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle OCI, CoreWeave and Lambda, covering on-demand, spot and reserved pricing. Cost per petaFLOP-hour, day and year is calculated from dense BF16 throughput; structured sparsity is excluded. Retrieval dates identify the price observations used in this release.

Data version
2026.3 · released 2026-07-17
Documentation revised
2026-09-08
Rows
508
Columns
15
Licence
CC-BY-4.0
Checksum
9d4ad13062064478…
Data vintage
2026-03-29 to 2026-07-17 · 87% of dated rows retrieved 2026-07-17

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  • CSVData in UTF-8, without a byte-order mark; dates use ISO 8601.
  • Data dictionaryColumn definitions.
  • JSON SchemaColumn types and required fields.
  • MethodologySources, calculations and limitations.
  • Croissant JSON-LDFile and column metadata in the MLCommons Croissant 1.0 format.
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Column completeness

15 columns · 508 rows

Column completeness. Each bar counts non-empty cells in a column of the downloadable CSV. Select a column to read its definition.

Full bar length represents all 508 rows. 10 of 15 columns are populated on every row; one of those columns is marked "one value" because the entry is the same on every row.

A blank cell has no value in this file. The accuracy of a populated value requires checking its source and any calculations applied to it.

Symbols identify required columns (◆), source and retrieval information (◈), and estimate flags (◊). Required columns can still contain null values.

How it was made

Scrutica Compute Cost Index — v2026.3

Release date: 2026-07-17 Documentation revised: 2026-09-08 License: CC-BY-4.0 Suggested citation: see CITATION block at the bottom.

Coverage

508 instance and pricing-tier observations across 6 providers and 9 accelerator types. Pricing tiers are on-demand, spot, one-year reserved and three-year reserved.

Normalisation

The calculation divides the hourly instance price by its peak dense BF16 throughput in PFLOP/s. Instance throughput is the GPU count multiplied by per-GPU TFLOP/s and divided by 1,000. Multiplying the resulting hourly cost by 24 gives cost per petaFLOP-day; multiplying the day value by 365 gives the year value.

Throughput specifications come from Epoch AI’s ML Hardware data. The calculation excludes structured sparsity and applies no utilization discount, so it prices peak capacity. Reserved prices are expressed as hourly rates for the stated commitment term. Missing inputs leave the normalized cost blank.

Refresh path

scripts/package-datasets.ts packages the observations and calculated cost fields in data/processed/cloud_pricing.json. The file’s retrieved_at column dates each observation; the release date identifies the packaged version.

Known limitations

  • Spot rates are dated observations and can vary within a day.
  • The files cover published rental rates. Negotiated enterprise discounts and the costs of buying and operating hardware require separate data.
  • A throughput-normalized price does not account for workload-specific utilization, memory or interconnect requirements.

Cite it

Format

Compute Cost Index

v2026.3 · 508 rows · released 2026-07-17 · SHA-256 9d4ad1306206…

Gringras, D., & Scrutica. (2026). Scrutica Compute Cost Index (Version 2026.3) [Data set]. Scrutica. (No DOI assigned)

BibTeX
@dataset{scrutica_compute_cost_index_2026_3,
  author    = {Gringras, David and {Scrutica}},
  title     = {Scrutica Compute Cost Index},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {2026.3},
  publisher = {Scrutica},
  note      = {No DOI assigned; cite the version and SHA-256 checksum at /datasets/compute-cost-index},
  url       = {https://scrutica.com/datasets/compute-cost-index}
}
APA 7th edition
Gringras, D., & Scrutica. (2026). Scrutica Compute Cost Index (Version 2026.3) [Data set]. Scrutica. (No DOI assigned)
Chicago author-date
Gringras, David, and Scrutica. 2026. "Scrutica Compute Cost Index, Version 2026.3." Dataset. Scrutica. Released July 17, 2026. https://scrutica.com/datasets/compute-cost-index (No DOI assigned).
CSL-JSON
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    "URL": "https://scrutica.com/datasets/compute-cost-index",
    "note": "No DOI assigned; cite the version and SHA-256 checksum (9d4ad1306206…) from /datasets/compute-cost-index."
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DataCite metadata
Creator: Gringras, David; Scrutica
PublicationYear: 2026
Title: Scrutica Compute Cost Index
Publisher: Scrutica
Version: 2026.3
Rights: CC-BY-4.0
ResourceTypeGeneral: Dataset
Identifier (URL): https://scrutica.com/datasets/compute-cost-index
SHA-256 (CSV): 9d4ad130620644787a23f75d6b4e8b84ffee19e38782383a8d3ba80dc07180d5
Plain-text citation
Scrutica Compute Cost Index, v2026.3 (2026-07-17). https://scrutica.com/datasets/compute-cost-index. SHA-256 9d4ad1306206…

The citation guide also covers numbers quoted from Scrutica pages.

See also

For current analysis, open Compute Cost Index. See Methodology for calculation details and Corrections for published amendments.