Mercatus AI

Mercatus AI — The GPU Compute Index (MCI): a volume-weighted, normalised USD-per-GPU-hour price index for hourly GPU rentals, refreshed every 5 minutes from API integrations plus web scraping across 50+ providers (30+ surfaced in the index), with 15 tracked GPU types each carrying its own provider count and 1-day/7-day/30-day change series, selectable historical windows (7/30/60/90-day and all-time), sub-indices by GPU tier and pricing type, and adjacent research on hardware depreciation and resale value.. Narrow but industriously built: 15 models and 30-50 providers at 5-minute cadence with …

Mercatus AI offers (Price, Alternative) — 15 GPU types × 3-26 providers each (H100 26, H200 19, A100 80GB 17, L40S 15, B200 11, B300 7, MI300X 6) at 5-minute collection cadence with a daily-published index; a 90-day rolling trend series per model plus an all-time window, and per-model 1d/7d/30d change series — roughly 7K provider-model observations per day at the stated cadence if the full underlying set is retained.

A reference benchmark for GPU rental rates (the volume-weighted construction makes it a defensible contract-benchmarking reference rather than a cheapest-price list); AI-capex and chip-demand signal generation from price direction and the breadth of providers quoting each model (e.g. 26 providers on H100 vs 3 on L4 as an adoption-maturity read); inference and training cost forecasting; procurement negotiation benchmarks; measuring per-model price dispersion across the 15-model curve as a scarcity signal; and hardware depreciation/residual-value modelling, which the vendor already publishes as adjacent research.

Coverage spans US; Financial Exchanges & Data, IT Consulting & Other Services; price, alternative; equities, options.

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