DeepSeek R1 · Performance per Dollar

DeepSeek R1 — GB200 NVL72 vs H200 Performance per Dollar

Cost per million tokens of GB200 NVL72 (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.

On DeepSeek R1 at 65 tok/s/user, the per-million math comes out to $0.09 for GB200 NVL72 and $0.33 for H200; GB200 NVL72 delivers 284% more output per dollar.

At 99 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1, GB200 NVL72 costs $0.11 per million tokens; H200 costs $0.69. GB200 NVL72 is 539% more cost-efficient at this operating point.

GB200 NVL72 edges H200 at 133 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1 — $0.18 per million tokens versus $1.29, a 632% cost-per-token gap. (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): GB200 NVL72 $1.86/chip/hr · H200 $1.22/chip/hr. Source: SemiAnalysis Market July 2026 Pricing Surveys & AI Cloud TCO Model.

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DeepSeek R1: GB200 NVL72 versus H200 cost per million tokens at matched interactivity levels
GB200 NVL72 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
GB200 NVL72:$0.085H200:$0.327
GB200 NVL72:$0.109H200:$0.694
GB200 NVL72:$0.176H200:$1.286
Concurrency
GB200 NVL72:~975H200:~155
GB200 NVL72:~333H200:~4
GB200 NVL72:~242H200:~18

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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