IBM Cloud
IBM's public cloud for HPC and AI: hourly H100, H200 and Gaudi 3 GPU servers, bare metal, and IBM Spectrum LSF and Symphony clusters for enterprise simulation, risk and AI workloads.
Facts
Source per value- Type What kind of provider it is: hyperscaler, managed HPC service, GPU cloud, sovereign or EU-hosted cloud, publicly funded supercomputer, or simulation-software cloud.
- hyperscaler 1
- Fabric Primary node-to-node network the provider states for its HPC or GPU clusters. RDMA means the provider names RDMA cluster networking without naming the transport.
- RoCE 1
- Interconnect detail Speeds and instance families as the provider states them.
- gx3d-160x1792x8h100: cluster network of 8 x 400 Gbps NICs (3.2 Tbps dedicated) carrying RoCEv2 for RDMA; H100 and H200 cluster networking offered in us-east (wdc06, wdc07) and eu-de (fra04) 1
- Schedulers Job schedulers and orchestrators the provider offers or documents.
- IBM Spectrum LSF, IBM Spectrum Symphony 5
- Slurm Offers or documents Slurm (managed, or as a supported deployment).
- Not published
- Kubernetes Offers managed Kubernetes for its clusters.
- Not published
- CPUs CPU models the provider names for its HPC or GPU hosts.
- Intel Xeon 8474C (4th Gen) on gx3/gx3d H100, H200, A100, L40S and L4 profiles; Intel Xeon 8568Y+ (5th Gen) on Gaudi 3 profile; 4th Gen Intel Xeon or AMD CPUs on bare metal 1
- GPUs / accelerators Accelerators the provider lists, as listed on its own pages.
- NVIDIA B300, H200, H100 SXM5, A100 PCIe, L40S, L4; AMD Instinct MI300X; Intel Gaudi 3 1
- H100 Lists NVIDIA H100.
- Yes 1
- Blackwell Lists at least one NVIDIA Blackwell data-centre GPU (B200, B300, GB200, GB300).
- Yes 7
- AMD Instinct Lists at least one AMD Instinct GPU.
- Yes 7
- Bare metal Sells non-virtualised bare-metal nodes.
- Yes 5
- H100 $/GPU-hr $/GPU-hr Published per-GPU-hour price of an H100. Basis (on-demand, capacity block, derived from an 8-GPU price) is in the next column.
- $10.73 3
- H100 price basis What the H100 price is: purchase mode, instance size and any derivation.
- On-demand gx3d-160x1792x8h100 virtual server (8x H100 SXM5) at $85.85/instance-hour in us-east and us-south, divided by 8; USD, US-account list price effective 1 Nov 2026. Same profile is $99.60/hr in eu-de; spot is $21.46/hr in us-east 3
- Price checked Date the price was read from the provider page.
- 2026-11-11 3
- Pricing model How the provider charges, as it states it.
- GPU virtual servers billed hourly on-demand or as spot; bare metal billed hourly, monthly or on reserved 1-year terms 2
- Regions Locations the provider names on its own pages.
- H100 profile: Dallas, Washington DC, Toronto, Sao Paulo, Frankfurt, Madrid, Paris, London, Sydney, Tokyo; H200 adds Chennai 1
- EU-hosted Names data-centre capacity in an EU member state.
- Yes 1
- Sovereignty claim The provider's own sovereignty or compliance statement, quoted or closely paraphrased.
- Not published
- Software catalogue Pre-configured application catalogue a platform provider advertises.
- Not published
- Runs on Clouds and hardware partners a platform provider lists.
- Not published
- Pricing model
- on-demand + spot
- From
- $10.73 GPU-hour
- Note
- gx3d-160x1792x8h100 (8x H100 SXM5) on-demand $85.85/instance-hour in us-east and us-south, $99.60 in eu-de, divided by 8 for the per-GPU figure. Spot $21.46/instance-hour in us-east and us-south (about $2.68/GPU-hour). US-account list prices from IBM's Global Catalog pricing API, effective 1 Nov 2026; OS licences extra.
Sources
- IBM Cloud Docs: Accelerated profile family (GPU profiles) accessed 2026-11-11
- IBM Global Catalog API: gx3d-160x1792x8h100 profile accessed 2026-11-11
- IBM Global Catalog pricing API: gx3d-160x1792x8h100, us-east accessed 2026-11-11
- IBM Global Catalog pricing API: gx3d-160x1792x8h100, eu-de accessed 2026-11-11
- IBM high-performance computing accessed 2026-11-11
- IBM Cloud HPC deployable architecture (IBM Spectrum schedulers), terraform-ibm-modules accessed 2026-11-11
- IBM Cloud GPUs and AI accelerators accessed 2026-11-11
- IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers accessed 2026-11-11
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