DeepSeek R1 · Performance per Dollar

DeepSeek R1 — B300 vs H200 Performance per Dollar

Cost per million tokens of B300 (NVIDIA Blackwell) versus H200 (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.

Push DeepSeek R1 to 50 tok/s/user and B300 lands at $0.11 per million tokens against H200's $0.24 — B300 pulls ahead by 115%.

B300: $0.26 per million tokens. H200: $0.69. Both at 89 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1, with B300 165% cheaper.

Toward the upper edge of the 12–167 tok/s/user interactivity band — at 128 tok/s/user — B300 runs $0.75 per million tokens on DeepSeek R1 while H200 runs $1.33. B300 is the cheaper choice by 77%. (Numbers reflect the default 8k/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): B300 $2.34/GPU/hr · H200 $1.41/GPU/hr. Source: SemiAnalysis Market August 2025 Pricing Surveys & AI Cloud TCO Model.

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DeepSeek R1: B300 versus H200 cost per million tokens at matched interactivity levels
B300 versus H200 cost per million tokens for this comparison's canonical default workload. Lower cost indicates better performance per dollar.
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
B300:$0.112H200:$0.241
B300:$0.260H200:$0.689
B300:$0.750H200:$1.329
Concurrency
B300:~288H200:~74
B300:~58H200:~6
B300:~9H200:~21

Inference Performance

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