DeepSeek R1 · Performance per Dollar

DeepSeek R1 — B200 vs H100 Performance per Dollar

Cost per million tokens of B200 (NVIDIA Blackwell) versus H100 (NVIDIA Hopper) on DeepSeek R1. Owning-hyperscaler TCO normalized by output tokens — performance per dollar across LLM workloads. Pick the more cost-efficient SKU at every target interactivity level. Use the chart controls below to switch sequences, precisions, and metrics — same interactions as the main inference chart.

At 42 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1, B200 costs $0.11 per million tokens; H100 costs $1.36. B200 is 1109% more cost-efficient at this operating point.

B200 edges H100 at 71 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1 — $0.54 per million tokens versus $4.86, a 794% cost-per-token gap.

Push DeepSeek R1 to 100 tok/s/user and B200 lands at $1.09 per million tokens against H100's $15.7 — B200 pulls ahead by 1342%. (Numbers reflect the default 1k/1k · fp8 selection for this URL — table and chart below update if you change sequence, precision, or model in the controls.)

GPU pricing (owning hyperscaler): B200 $1.95/GPU/hr · H100 $1.30/GPU/hr. Source: SemiAnalysis Market August 2025 Pricing Surveys & AI Cloud TCO Model.

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Interpolated from real benchmark data. Edit target interactivity values below to compare at different operating points.
Metric
Interactivity (tok/s/user)
Interactivity (tok/s/user)
Interactivity (tok/s/user)
Dollar per Million Tokens
B200:$0.113H100:$1.365
B200:$0.544H100:$4.864
B200:$1.088H100:$15.692
Concurrency
B200:~1577H100:~558
B200:~59H100:~52
B200:~139H100:~8

Inference Performance

Inference performance metrics across different models, hardware configurations, and serving parameters.