A transparent, repeatable, daily reference rate for deliverable AI compute. One instrument. One anchor. Built so the market can mature.
| Provider | Tier | $/GPU-hr | Δ vs ICX | Config | Status |
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Gather executable on-demand H100 hourly pricing from a diversified panel of US-based cloud providers. Multi-GPU clusters normalized to per-GPU equivalent.
Standard Compute Unit: 1× NVIDIA H100 80GB, US-located, hourly provisionable. Variants flagged and adjusted. All prices in $/GPU-hour.
Trim statistical outliers. Exclude stale quotes and non-executable listings. Apply minimum data thresholds before publication.
Averaged rate published daily at 4:00 PM ET. Consistent timing. Full methodology documentation available. History downloadable.
ICX reflects transaction prices, not hardware ASP or production expense. Commodity benchmarks measure markets, not drilling costs.
Published methodology. Documented update process. Minimum data requirements. The remedy for data risk is governance, not complexity.
Publish a consistent daily reference rate. Establish volatility patterns, seasonal shifts, and supply tightness in a neutral instrument.
Startups benchmark vendor quotes to ICX. Procurement teams embed ICX in forecasts. The signal: "ICX plus spread" enters the market vocabulary.
Term expectations, forward curves, and realized volatility measures derived from observed spot data. Analytic layers, not separate businesses.
Bilateral swaps. Cash-settled futures. Only after the benchmark is sufficiently trusted and liquid. Trust is the prerequisite, not the product.
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