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Oracle Cloud vs Spheron

8 GPUs in common. Oracle Cloud is cheaper on 0, Spheron on 8; on average Spheron is 52% below Oracle Cloud.

Prices collected 2026-09-18

Oracle Cloud
12GPUs · +121.8% vs market
Spheron
12GPUs · +5.4% vs market
In common
8
Kind
hyperscaler · marketplace

Every GPU both price

GPUOracle CloudSpheronDifferenceMarket
NVIDIANVIDIA B300$15.00$10.21Spheron −32%$7.85
NVIDIANVIDIA B200$14.00$9.36Spheron −33%$6.59
NVIDIANVIDIA H200$10.00$4.79Spheron −52%$4.45
NVIDIANVIDIA H100 SXM$10.00$2.64Spheron −74%$3.50
AMDAMD MI300X$6.00$3.59Spheron −40%$2.59
NVIDIANVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell$4.50$2.27Spheron −50%$2.05
NVIDIANVIDIA A100 80GB$4.00$1.43Spheron −64%$1.79
NVIDIANVIDIA L40S$3.50$0.96Spheron −73%$1.47

Only one of them has it

Only Oracle CloudMI355X, A100 40GB, V100 16GB, A10

Questions

Is Oracle Cloud or Spheron cheaper?

On the 8 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Oracle Cloud is cheaper on 0 and Spheron on 8. On average Spheron is 52% cheaper than Oracle Cloud across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.

What does one have that the other does not?

Oracle Cloud alone prices MI355X, A100 40GB, V100 16GB, A10; Spheron alone prices GH200, RTX 6000 Ada, RTX 4090, RTX 5090. They are different kinds of provider — Oracle Cloud is a hyperscaler, Spheron a marketplace — which is most of why the prices differ.

Where do these prices come from?

Oracle Cloud: OCI's public price-list API (the cost estimator's feed), pay-as-you-go, per GPU-hour as listed. One price worldwide. Spheron: Public pricing page, parsed. Per-GPU price is the listed per-GPU rate, or the node price divided by GPU count. Prices near reserved, committed or contract terms are discarded; anything outside a plausible range for the GPU is discarded. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.