Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
At a glance: what changed this month Crusoe MI300X is now $1.71/GPU-hr on published pricing — the lowest rate from any major provider as of May 2026. CoreWeave's effective H100 rate is about $6.16/GPU-hr once you normalise its unbundled 8-GPU HGX nodes (GPU + vCPU + RAM + storage all priced separately). Lambda H100 SXM5 sits at $2.99–$3.79/hr depending on configuration and is bundled — closer to what most builders expect to see on an invoice. The 192GB HBM3 on MI300X is the unsung hero — Llama-3.3-70B fits on a single device with KV cache headroom, so tensor-parallel splits and their NCCL/RCCL overhead can disappear from your serving topology. SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX 2.0 still gives only CoreWeave the Platinum tier; Crusoe holds Gold. Price advantage does not automatically buy you…
