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01 Oct 2026, 6:30 PM	Tom's Hardware	5.0	Firm rents four Nvidia H200s to test '80x cheaper' DeepSeek claim A firm rented four Nvidia H200 GPUs at $13,200 per month to independently test DeepSeek's claim of being '80x cheaper', and the rental alone reportedly doubled what the firm was already paying for Claude. The same write-up notes that security flaws forced the team to keep their code offline during the test. The article body itself did not load in the supplied text, so no benchmark results, token throughput, or final verdict are available here. Why: The only concrete numbers we have are the cost side: $13,200/month for four H200s versus an existing Claude bill that this doubled, plus a security constraint that kept code off the network entirely. If you are weighing self-hosted or rented-GPU inference against API spend, this is a reminder that the comparison is rental + ops + isolation overhead, not just per-token price — and that the '80x cheaper' figure is still unverified here. Because no results are in the text, don't cite this as evidence either way yet; wait for the actual measurements. gpu-costs deepseek llm-inference self-hosting ai-infrastructure

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01 Oct 2026, 6:30 PM

Tom's Hardware

5.0

Firm rents four Nvidia H200s to test '80x cheaper' DeepSeek claim

A firm rented four Nvidia H200 GPUs at $13,200 per month to independently test DeepSeek's claim of being '80x cheaper', and the rental alone reportedly doubled what the firm was already paying for Claude. The same write-up notes that security flaws forced the team to keep their code offline during the test. The article body itself did not load in the supplied text, so no benchmark results, token throughput, or final verdict are available here.

Why: The only concrete numbers we have are the cost side: $13,200/month for four H200s versus an existing Claude bill that this doubled, plus a security constraint that kept code off the network entirely. If you are weighing self-hosted or rented-GPU inference against API spend, this is a reminder that the comparison is rental + ops + isolation overhead, not just per-token price — and that the '80x cheaper' figure is still unverified here. Because no results are in the text, don't cite this as evidence either way yet; wait for the actual measurements.