Compute Prices what a token and a GPU-hour cost, indexed daily
The DC Hardware index prices the inputs to a data center. This page prices what comes out of one: the per-token list prices of six frontier and open models on OpenRouter, and the rental price of a GPU-hour on vast.ai and sfcompute. Both composites are chain-linked equal-weight geometric means: each day's move averages the day-over-day price changes of the members priced on both days, so a SKU missing a day, joining, or retiring changes who is averaged but never jumps the index — and a deprecated model drops out instead of freezing a dead price into it. Collection began 2026-06-16: the history is short and says so.
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MacroGauge Token price index, 2026-10-02, 2026-07-15=100, 104.3 — https://macrogauge.vercel.app/computeComposite indexes
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chain-linked equal-weight geometric mean: each day's move is the geometric mean of the day-over-day price relatives of the members priced on both days (a member's last price carries at most its staleness limit), rebased to 100 on the first day every member was priced. Token prices blend 75% input and 25% output per million tokens. A day with fewer than 3 members publishes null.
Models — list price per million tokens (OpenRouter)
| Model | Input | Output | Blended | 30d | As of | 90d |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-4o | $2.50 | $10.00 | $4.375 | 0.0% | 2026-10-02 | |
| Claude Sonnet | $2.00 | $10.00 | $4.000 | 0.0% | 2026-10-02 | |
| Llama 3.1 70B | $0.40 | $0.40 | $0.400 | 0.0% | 2026-10-02 | |
| DeepSeek | $0.26 | $1.03 | $0.450 | 0.0% | 2026-10-02 | |
| Gemini Flash | $1.50 | $9.00 | $3.375 | 0.0% | 2026-10-02 | |
| Mistral Large | $2.00 | $6.00 | $3.000 | 0.0% | 2026-10-02 |
GPU rentals — $ per GPU-hour
| SKU | $/GPU-hr | 30d | As of | 90d |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H100 SXM (vast.ai) vast_h100_sxm | $1.602 | −11.1% | 2026-10-02 | |
| H200 (vast.ai) vast_h200 | $3.556 | −13.4% | 2026-09-28 | |
| B200 (vast.ai) vast_b200 | $8.125 | +35.4% | 2026-09-30 | |
| A100 SXM (vast.ai) vast_a100_sxm | $0.669 | +25.4% | 2026-10-02 | |
| RTX 4090 (vast.ai) vast_rtx4090 | $0.482 | +32.4% | 2026-10-02 | |
| H100 (sfcompute spot) sfc_h100 | $2.060 | +5.6% | 2026-09-24 | |
| B300 (vast.ai) vast_b300 · not in index | $8.719 | — | 2026-09-30 | — |
vast.ai rows are the marketplace median for the SKU; sfcompute is its spot average. List prices, not negotiated rates — the same caveat the DC Hardware index carries for OEM inputs. Series are config (config/series.json); a stale series (7-day limit) shows on /status and leaves the mean. vast.ai medians cover the whole on-demand market: the API caps a query at 64 offers, so a saturated SKU is re-queried in price bands and the bands merged. Rows marked “not in index” (B300, first collected 2026-09-29) are priced but kept out of the GPU-hour index, whose base is the first day every member was priced.