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 $0.21 — B300 pulls ahead by 99%.

B300: $0.27 per million tokens. H200: $0.60. Both at 89 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1, with B300 118% cheaper.

Toward the upper edge of the 12–167 tok/s/user interactivity band — at 128 tok/s/user — B300 runs $0.63 per million tokens on DeepSeek R1 while H200 runs $1.16. B300 is the cheaper choice by 83%. (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.)

Chip pricing (owning hyperscaler): B300 $2.26/chip/hr · H200 $1.22/chip/hr. Source: SemiAnalysis Market July 2026 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:$0.107H200:$0.213
B300:$0.273H200:$0.596
B300:$0.633H200:$1.160
Concurrency
B300:~288H200:~73
B300:~57H200:~6
B300:~7H200:~21

Inference Performance

Agentic inference metrics from the AgentX scenario and fixed-sequence inference metrics across models, hardware configurations, and serving parameters.

Cost per Million Total Tokens (Owning - Hyperscaler) vs. Interactivity

DeepSeek R1 0528 671B FP4 8K / 1K Source: SemiAnalysis InferenceX™

TCO $/chip/hr: H100: 1.17H200: 1.22B200: 1.73B300: 2.26GB200: 1.86GB300: 2.31MI300X: 0.95MI325X: 1.1MI355X: 1.5RTX6000PRO: 0.68

Source: SemiAnalysis Market July 2026 Pricing Surveys & AI Cloud TCO Model

Note: Disaggregated inference configurations (e.g., MoRI SGLang, Dynamo TRTLLM) calculate cost per million tokens per decode chip or per prefill chip, rather than per total chip count. This makes direct token cost comparison with aggregated configs not an apples-to-apples comparison.

Note: Disaggregated inference configurations (e.g., MoRI SGLang, Dynamo TRTLLM) calculate input throughput per decode chip or per prefill chip, rather than per total chip count. This makes direct input throughput comparison with aggregated configs not an apples-to-apples comparison.

Note: Disaggregated inference configurations (e.g., MoRI SGLang, Dynamo TRTLLM) calculate output throughput per decode chip or per prefill chip, rather than per total chip count. This makes direct output throughput comparison with aggregated configs not an apples-to-apples comparison.

Note: Disaggregated inference configurations (e.g., MoRI SGLang, Dynamo TRTLLM) calculate power per decode chip or per prefill chip, rather than per total chip count. This makes direct power comparison with aggregated configs not an apples-to-apples comparison.

Note: Disaggregated inference configurations (e.g., MoRI SGLang, Dynamo TRTLLM) calculate Joules per decode chip or per prefill chip, rather than per total chip count. This makes direct Joules per token comparison with aggregated configs not an apples-to-apples comparison.

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