The Nvidia H100 was the workhorse behind nearly every major language model trained between 2023 and 2025, and in 2026 it remains a central line item in any AI infrastructure budget. But H100 pricing is famously hard to pin down: there is no clean sticker price, rental rates swing widely by provider, and newer GPUs like the H200 and B200 are reshaping the value calculation. This guide lays out…