Nvidia DGX Cloud pricing: why there’s no rate card, and what replaced it

There has never been an official rate card for NVIDIA DGX Cloud. The only price revealed by NVIDIA at launch was $36,999 per instance per month, which occurred in 2023.

Currently, it is only possible to get pricing through a private request from a partner or directly from the cloud providers. No price list is available to refer to.

This is not by mistake, but simply because of the way NVIDIA sells this product. This is also because of the new strategy adopted by Nvidia, making pricing even less transparent than before.

Key takeaways

• There has never been an official rate card for Nvidia’s DGX Cloud. The only figure released by Nvidia was $36,999 per instance per month, which came during the 2023 launch of DGX Cloud.
• Currently, the only way to get a proper price quote is through private pricing through a partner or by comparing cloud services.
• As of the end of 2025, Nvidia is no longer marketing DGX Cloud to new external customers. Most of its capacity is now being used internally.
• The alternative that Nvidia is directing its customers towards is called DGX Cloud Lepton, which is a GPU marketplace model. It does not have an official rate card either.
• The rollout of DGX Cloud took longer than Nvidia had planned. AWS joined the effort about two and a half years after the initial launch date.
• Nvidia charges for DGX Cloud using a subscription-per-node pricing model.

What Nvidia actually says about DGX Cloud pricing

Every DGX Cloud partner page has the same message. See the AWS, Azure, GCP, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure websites. All lead you to “Request Private Offer Pricing” or simply “Contact Us.”

Not one lists a price. This holds true both today and one year ago.

Nvidia’s DGX Cloud-specific terms of service clearly state the billing structure: subscription-based per node. However, they provide no information regarding subscription costs.

The only publicly disclosed pricing for DGX Cloud was the launch pricing itself. In March 2023, Nvidia’s press release announced the launch of DGX Cloud clusters at a price of $36,999 per instance per month.

That was over two years ago. Nvidia has maintained the same pricing since then.

Is there a DGX Cloud price per GPU or per H100?

Not at all. And that confuses many readers. DGX Cloud is not available on an itemised basis as a rental for individual GPUs.

The pricing is for managed nodes or clusters. The term “node” includes the hardware, networking, and Nvidia software together as one product, not as individual components.

As a result, there is no officially released figure for “$X per H100 per hour” for DGX Cloud. All such figures floating around lack a verifiable Nvidia source. Therefore, approach them with caution.

If what you are looking for is the per-GPU hourly price, then that’s another product line entirely.

How DGX Cloud actually rolled out across partners

Here, the launch cycle offers insight into the product’s direction.

Nvidia had unveiled DGX Cloud in March 2023, identifying Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as the initial partner for this solution. However, Nvidia only launched DGX Cloud on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in October 2023, seven months after its initially unveiled.

Initially, Nvidia assumed that both Azure and Google Cloud would join a quarter or two later. Eventually, both partners joined, but their launch timeline was slower than expected.

According to DataCenterDynamics, AWS became a partner two and a half years after the 2023 launch.

Notably, AWS became a partner just as Nvidia stopped selling DGX Cloud to customers.

Indeed, upon its launch, Nvidia announced early customer testing. According to the press release, among these customers were such big enterprises as Amgen (biotechnology company) and ServiceNow (enterprise software).

These examples have common features that include the fact that both companies were using DGX Cloud for conducting research and development in the areas of large language models and code generation.

The described customer base is fully consistent with the original $36,999 monthly subscription cost. Nvidia never targeted DGX Cloud at small groups of researchers.

The described customer base also explains the fact that there was no need to announce the public price list at the very launch since the companies’ procurement departments usually sign individual agreements with Nvidia instead of checking a public rate card.

This was not an issue until smaller customers began searching for DGX Cloud pricing information because of the AI boom in 2023.

Why DGX Cloud pricing got harder to find, not easier

And here’s the relevant excerpt from above. Nvidia has been quietly pivoting away from DGX Cloud as a customer-facing product.

As reported by both Tom’s Hardware and DataCenterDynamics, this pullback took place between September and December 2025. In both cases, sourcing has come from The Information. Nvidia apparently ended any sales pitches for DGX Cloud with outside customers.

Apparently, Nvidia reassigned the vast majority of Nvidia’s DGX Cloud capacity to internal research and development work. The company also integrated the DGX Cloud team into Nvidia’s internal engineering division.

But note that this information comes from reporting, not from a statement on record from Nvidia. However, several sources have confirmed this information, not just one.

There’s a fairly obvious answer to why this was done. In 2023, when DGX Cloud launched, GPU capacity was scarce, and hyperscalers were expensive. However, by 2025, hyperscalers had lowered their GPU pricing dramatically.

DGX Cloud vs. DGX Cloud Lepton: what’s actually different

There are two distinct services here, and search behaviour indicates many people are struggling to differentiate them.

DGX Cloud is Nvidia’s original managed AI supercomputing service delivered via hyperscaler partners. DGX Cloud was, as mentioned above, being phased out for new customers.

DGX Cloud Lepton is a more recent service offering, which isn’t a similar offering to the previous one. It is a marketplace that links buyers and Nvidia Cloud Partners (NCPs) directly.

Moreover, Lepton does not address the problem of transparency of pricing here, too. In fact, the official Nvidia Lepton pages prove that pricing is determined independently by each individual NCP and not by Nvidia.

In a discussion of Lepton’s goals, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated Lepton aims to connect Nvidia’s ecosystem of GPU cloud providers with AI developers. This context is crucial because Nvidia sees itself as an intermediary, not as a vendor, which explains why it never publishes pricing information.

How to actually find out what you’d pay

There are only two options since neither DGX Cloud nor Lepton provides rate information.

Before asking for a quote, it is necessary to understand the term “NVIDIA Cloud Partner.” NVIDIA certifies NCPs according to the NVIDIA reference architecture. This concerns the GPU configuration, networking, and verification tests before deployment.

That is a real quality criterion, not just a marketing one, but again it reveals nothing about the price.

The first one is asking for a private quote directly from your chosen partner. It will provide you with an actual quote, but you should be ready to spend some time.

The second option is comparing rates among different NVIDIA Cloud Partners. For Lepton, it is essential to have different prices set by partners.

Comparing rates among verified partners is a quicker way.

Frequently asked questions

Is Nvidia DGX Cloud still available to new customers?

Availability appears to have dropped sharply since late 2025. Nvidia has likely shifted most of its DGX Cloud capacity to internal use. Additionally, Nvidia has scaled back its efforts to sell to any new external customers.

What replaced DGX Cloud for customers who want managed Nvidia infrastructure?

DGX Cloud Lepton represents Nvidia’s present solution. Unlike its other models, DGX Cloud Lepton is a marketplace model that links buyers to NVIDIA Cloud Partners.

How much did DGX Cloud cost when it launched?

According to Nvidia’s 2023 press release announcing the availability of DGX Cloud, cluster availability begins at $36,999 per instance per month. This is the only price Nvidia has ever officially released regarding DGX Cloud.

What’s the difference between DGX Cloud and DGX Cloud Lepton?

DGX Cloud is Nvidia’s initial managed service and is being phased out by its partner hyperscalers. DGX Cloud Lepton is the more recent marketplace solution to DGX Cloud.

Is there a per-GPU or per-H100 price for DGX Cloud?

There isn’t any officially published information about a rate per GPU for DGX Cloud. Nvidia markets its DGX Cloud service as a node or cluster subscription, rather than as individual GPUs. There are some numbers available for the per-GPU DGX Cloud rate, but there isn’t any reliable Nvidia source for those figures.

Does Nvidia sell DGX Cloud access directly, or only through partners?

Through the hyperscaler partners only. Hyperscalers offer all DGX Cloud services via their platforms, including AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI. Each partner sets pricing independently in each case.

The real story isn’t a hidden price list

Nvidia never intended to publish a rate card as any regular cloud service would. This problem became even more severe since Nvidia reduced its DGX Cloud offerings. Pricing and the product’s decreasing availability are two sides of the same coin.

It’s not that Nvidia will disappear from the computing business altogether. Nvidia decided not to compete directly with the hyperscalers it provides hardware to. Nvidia now redirects all requests for GPU capacity to the Lepton partner marketplace.

Instead of looking for a non-existent DGX Cloud rate, try comparing rates from real providers.