How Compute Index turns live H100 prices into a market signal
The primary index is not a generic GPU average. It is a H100-focused market heat score built from live or availability-verified spot prices, provider-level medians, source confidence, and freshness gates.
What the score means
The 0-100 score measures H100 market heat. Lower scores indicate a buyer-friendlier market with softer prices or better supply. Higher scores indicate seller-friendlier conditions with rising prices, tighter supply, wider provider spreads, or weaker source health.
Buyer's market
Neutral-buyer
Neutral-seller
Seller's market
Component weights
What enters the spot index
- GPU class must resolve to H100-family inventory.
- Price must be normalized to USD per GPU-hour.
- Offer must be live or availability-verified for the primary spot tape.
- Rows must pass source-quality gates and freshness windows.
- Provider medians are computed before the global aggregate to reduce marketplace row-count bias.
What is excluded
- Hardcoded fallback rows.
- Unknown or unmatched GPU aliases.
- Stale rows outside provider freshness windows.
- Official list prices without verified current capacity.
- Quote-required or contact-sales rows without public spot availability.
Freshness windows
Freshness depends on the source type. Fast-moving marketplace APIs should refresh much more often than official catalog pages.
stale after roughly 30 minutes
stale after roughly 24 hours
reference after roughly 7 days
always excluded from market aggregates
Current limitations
The index is optimized for public H100 spot-market visibility, not every private enterprise contract. Some providers expose only official list prices, contact-sales pricing, or limited capacity signals. Those rows are useful context, but they are visually and methodologically separated from the primary live spot index.