HGX

Buy vs Rent an H200 Box: Break-Even Math Puts Tipping Point at 60% Utilization

A LocalLLaMA user shared break-even math for buying versus renting an 8-GPU HGX H200 server: about $370k in hardware versus a median $4.40 per GPU-hour across 34 providers, paying back in 14.4 months at 100% utilization, 24 months at 60% and 36 months at 40%. He concludes owning wins above roughly 60% sustained utilization and renting wins below 40%.