Ornn Exchange data shows GPU rental prices climbing month-on-month across chip generations - Crypto Briefing

Rentals for Nvidia’s latest AI chips climbed sharply in October, with the H200 leading a month-on-month increase of nearly 49%, according to fresh data from the Ornn Compute Price Index.

The H200 rental rate jumped nearly 49% to $7.75 per GPU-hour, while the B200 rose 32% to $9.84. Older chips also saw gains, with the H100 up 8.3% to $3.25 and the A100 up 11.58% to $1.06.

The spread between generations is widening, with a B200 now costing roughly nine times what an A100 does and the H200 renting for more than double the H100.

How Ornn measures GPU prices

Ornn AI Inc. built the Ornn Compute Price Index (OCPI) to track what GPU rentals actually cost, using volume-weighted averages of settled trades rather than surveys or posted rate cards.

The index is drawn from executed trades in the neocloud market, a cluster of newer cloud providers that rent out GPU capacity specifically for AI work. It settles daily at midnight ET, and several of Ornn’s tickers are available on Bloomberg.

Ornn also runs a marketplace, Ornn Compute, where users can trade both spot and reserved GPU capacity. The marketplace uses the index as its pricing reference.

Ornn’s role in the AI compute market

Ornn is a recent arrival, founded in 2025 by a team of MIT graduates with the goal of bringing transparent pricing to the GPU rental market for AI workloads.

The company raised $33 million in a seed round in June 2026, a sizable check for a company at that stage. Ornn’s data is increasingly being used as a reference by neocloud operators and financial firms for pricing and hedging.

As Blackwell chips gain adoption, buyers and sellers have struggled to see clearly where supply and demand actually sit, and Ornn wants to be the scoreboard.