Ai cloud prices just went up again and the trend is the story. nebius raises gpu pay-as-you-go…
ai cloud prices just went up again and the trend is the story. nebius raises gpu pay-as-you-go rates 17 to 21 percent on october 1, its second hike in three months, with cpu up 25 percent and memory 41 percent.
model prices fall while the compute under them gets pricier.
Context
Reuters' report of September 17, 2026 says Nebius will raise pay-as-you-go prices for leasing selected Nvidia chips from October 1, its second price hike in three months. It reports selected GPUs up 17 to 21 percent, some CPU-only instances up 25 percent and memory offerings about 41 percent, with commitment discounts for large multi-month reservations. Nebius's price page carries a GPU-hour table labelled effective October 1, 2026, and its docs show a table of GPU prices from June 1, 2026.
The note drops two qualifiers from Reuters: selected GPUs and some CPU-only instances. On the first-party price page the text extraction lost the column headers, so which of two on-demand columns for HGX B300 ($7.85 and $9.50) is old or new could not be read, and no before or after rates are asserted here. The June 1 table fits a second hike in three months as a timeline but does not state it. Model prices fall while the compute under them gets pricier is the author's take, and no model-price evidence was inspected.
Related work
- nebius raises gpu prices oct 1 - h100 to $4.50 an hour, b300 to $9.50 ↗An earlier note on the Nebius price change or GPU pricing.
- the gpu shortage narrative is over in the spot market. h100 spot prici ↗An earlier note on the Nebius price change or GPU pricing.
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- A dated Nebius changelog with old and new rates.
Sources
- Reuters: Nebius hikes AI cloud prices again (September 17, 2026)reuters.com
- Nebius: pricesnebius.com
- Nebius docs: compute pricingdocs.nebius.com
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The note above is reproduced unedited from the original post, first published on Threads on 22 September 2026 at 16:40 IST. Sources are the papers and datasets the note draws on.
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