AWS EC2 P5 pricing

Eight H100s per instance on demand, at roughly four times the specialist rate. Savings plans and capacity blocks are how this comes down; the list price is a starting point for negotiation.

List prices checked

By Amazon Web Services · GPU cloud

Rate card

What Amazon Web Services charges, by billing axis.

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Source: Amazon Web Services pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

AWS EC2 P5 billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$5,526/mo

  • 730 GPU-hours at $7.57/hr (H100 80GB)$5,526

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$11,052/mo

  • 1,460 GPU-hours at $7.57/hr (H100 80GB)$11,052

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$5,526/mo

  • 730 GPU-hours at $7.57/hr (H100 80GB)$5,526

AWS EC2 P5 vs the alternatives

The closest GPU cloud providers on price, with the difference on gpu cloud's headline axis.

ServiceEntry planvs AWS EC2 P5Compare
Google Cloud A3$6.981.1× cheaperHead to head
Azure ND H100 v5$6.981.1× cheaperHead to head
Replicate H100$5.041.5× cheaperHead to head
Modal H100$3.951.9× cheaperHead to head
Lambda H100$2.493× cheaperHead to head
CoreWeave H100$2.313.3× cheaperHead to head

Questions about pricing

How much does AWS EC2 P5 cost in 2026?
AWS EC2 P5 charges usage-based rates with no fixed monthly floor, per Amazon Web Services's published pricing page. There is no free tier. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does AWS EC2 P5 have a free tier?
No. AWS EC2 P5 bills from the first unit of usage. Several competitors in the same category do publish a free allowance — the rankings linked below list them.
Are these AWS EC2 P5 prices current?
They were checked against Amazon Web Services's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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