GPU Compass – open-source, real-time GPU pricing across 20+ clouds [P]

The team behind the open-source SkyPilot project has launched GPU Compass, a public-facing portal for its real-time cloud GPU pricing catalog. The underlying data is maintained as an Apache 2.0 licensed open-source project called skypilot-catalog, which automatically queries the APIs of over 20 major cloud providers—including AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Lambda Labs—every 7 hours. This process populates a browsable interface with current and historical pricing for more than 50 different GPU models (like NVIDIA's H100, A100, and L4) across 2,000+ individual cloud offerings, covering both on-demand and spot/preemptible instances.

The tool provides transparency in a notoriously opaque and fluctuating market, allowing engineers and financial planners to make data-driven decisions. GPU Compass is already being used as the data backbone by several other third-party GPU comparison tools. By making the raw pricing data publicly visible, the SkyPilot team aims to democratize access to cost information, helping startups and enterprises alike benchmark performance-per-dollar and avoid vendor lock-in. This is particularly critical as the demand for AI compute surges, making infrastructure cost a primary bottleneck for development.