Weekly Pricing Pulse

About Pulse

The Weekly Pricing Pulse presents what changed in published GPU cloud pricing across the 9 tracked providers in the last 7 days. Every week, AIForge Works runs a fresh harvest across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, CoreWeave, Lambda, Vultr, Nebius, and Crusoe, diffs the new data against the prior week, and surfaces the moves worth knowing about: biggest price changes on existing comparable entries, New Silicon, Deprecated SKUs, and likely price/SKU rolls.

What the Pulse is NOT: it is not a live quote, and it is not workload-specific advice. The numbers reflect public catalog prices at the moment of harvest. For a live quote, check the provider. Within AIForge Works, use Cloud Advisor for workload-specific recommendations, open the Multi-Cloud Pricing Analyzer to see neighboring SKUs, regions, or commitment terms for any mover that catches your eye, and use GPU Audit to compare your own GPU spend against a comparable floor.

Editor's note

May 25 was a quiet public-price week, with no comparable on-demand GPU offers moving more than 1% across the nine tracked providers. The visible activity is catalog availability, not repricing: Lambda and Vultr showed newly visible and no-longer-visible GPU catalog entries, while AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, CoreWeave, Crusoe, and Nebius were unchanged in this weekly comparison. We are not treating these catalog changes as proof of new physical capacity or broad market movement; they are watchlist items until source-backed by provider documentation or repeated in later harvests. For buyers, the takeaway is stability: if you were comparing public on-demand GPU rates from May 18, the May 25 harvest does not show a material price move, but Lambda and Vultr availability should be rechecked before making placement assumptions.

What moved this week

No provider had comparable on-demand offers over the 1% movement threshold. Lambda, Vultr changed catalog visibility through New Silicon and Deprecated SKU entries, shown below. Same-instance SKU rolls are tagged as likely price changes.

• On-demand pricing was quiet this week. We did not find any public on-demand GPU price changes above the 1% reporting threshold; the visible movement is catalog availability.

Top on-demand movers by provider

No comparable offers met the 1% movement threshold for this section.

Up to 5 price observations per provider, ranked by absolute per-GPU rate change. See Methodology for how per-GPU rates are computed.

Provider roll-up

No change this week: AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, CoreWeave, Crusoe, Nebius.

Existing price changes track comparable provider + region + instance/SKU observations over the 1% movement threshold. New Silicon excludes same-provider, same-geo, same-instance likely SKU rolls. Deprecated SKUs remain exact catalog SKUs no longer visible as purchasable rows.

Catalog changes this week

Catalog change counts are artifact-level visibility changes. They show provider + region + instance/SKU observations that became newly visible or no longer visible between harvests. Provider-level add/remove churn exists for Lambda (12 newly visible, 49 no longer visible); Vultr (2 newly visible, 7 no longer visible), but this comparison did not find same-provider, same-geo, same-instance pairs. We do not describe these as likely SKU rolls unless that exact overlap is present.

New Silicon this week

14 New Silicon on-demand GPU catalog entries were detected across Lambda (12), Vultr (2). Entries are grouped by provider so high-volume catalog churn does not hide smaller-provider changes.

New Silicon means a provider + region + instance/SKU observation newly visible in this harvest that is not paired with a same-provider, same-geo, same-instance deprecated SKU. It still does not by itself prove net-new capacity or a brand-new accelerator family.

Deprecated SKUs this week

56 Deprecated SKU on-demand GPU catalog entries were detected across Lambda (49), Vultr (7). Entries are grouped by provider so high-volume catalog churn does not hide smaller-provider changes.

Deprecated SKU means the exact provider catalog SKU was present in the prior harvest but absent from this one. It is no longer purchasable as that exact SKU in the artifact comparison, even when a same-instance replacement looks likely.

Methodology

What we compared. This Pulse compares last week's harvest (May 18, 2026) against this week's (May 25, 2026). Both harvests run automatically against the same 9 cloud providers.

How we compare prices fairly. Different providers package GPUs differently: some sell single-GPU instances, others sell 8-GPU instances. To compare apples-to-apples, we divide every instance price by the number of GPUs on that instance. All movement percentages in this Pulse are based on that per-GPU hourly rate, not the raw instance price.

What counts as a real move. We only flag price changes greater than 1%. Anything smaller is treated as rounding noise and excluded.

Reserved/committed terms. The generated Pulse diff certifies on-demand movement only. If the editor's note discusses 1-year or 3-year reserved or committed terms, that claim must be reviewed against separate evidence before publication.

Currency. All prices are in US dollars. Catalog entries missing a clean price or verified GPU specs are dropped before comparison.

How we choose summary callouts. The short summary only highlights price moves that are broad enough to read as a market signal. Narrow one-provider movements may still appear in detail tables, but we do not treat them as market-wide repricing.

This week's coverage. All 9 providers reported clean harvests. After normalizing 5.45M raw catalog price observations against verified hardware specs, the broader MPA catalog includes all deployable instance offers. This Pulse narrows that catalog to roughly 13,000 comparable on-demand GPU observations for week-over-week movement analysis.

This Pulse compiles publicly published prices. It is not a live quote and is not workload-specific advice. See the About section at the top for links to AIForge Works pricing and availability tools.

Next Pulse: Week of 2026-06-01.