[SMM Computing Power News] The default brokerage fee for the H series models in the industry is an additional 1,000 yuan per unit per month.

SMM has learned that a pricing convention has also been established for intermediary channels in computing power leasing for entry-level models—an intermediary fee of about 300 yuan per machine per month, which is generally applicable to the 4090 series (e.g., RTX 4090). As a channel facilitation cost, it is added on top of the base rental. SMM believes that the intermediary fee for entry-level models is significantly lower than that for high-end models, reflecting ample supply of low and mid-end computing power and sufficient channel competition.

Abstract: August 11, a cluster released 8 relocatable H100 servers, with a monthly rent of 72,000 yuan per unit and a three-year minimum lease; A100 80G server channel tax-inclusive quotation of 1.34 million yuan per unit, valid for only 3 days.

SMM learned that a computing cluster in South China released the rental resources of 2 IB-networked A100 80G servers, with a monthly rent of 35,000 yuan per unit and a minimum one-year lease (long-term agreement). These resources are aimed at high-bandwidth interconnection needs such as large model training, and IB networking can support low-latency communication for multi-machine distributed training. SMM believes that the release of a small batch of high-end GPUs in the form of a long-term agreement reflects the resilience of training computing power demand in South China.