The Sorso View Compute Index · SVCI
The benchmark for the cost of compute.
Published on recurring issue cycles. Between monthly full-panel sweeps, priced-provider observation issues freshly observe every currently priced provider. Since Issue 009, unscheduled panel entries are marked deferred, and coverage and opacity are not calculated for those issues. Track 2 may run weekly or biweekly. Every data point sourced. Every weight disclosed.
Issue 011 · Current
The latest SVCI level is 104.3, unchanged from Issue 010. The September 14 full-panel sweep captures 27 providers: sixteen comparable rates unchanged and eleven captured exclusions. Coverage Score is 0.7400 and Compute Opacity Index is 26.0. Read Issue 011.
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What the Index measures.
The on-demand, publicly quoted instance rental rate for the H100 SXM 80GB configuration, captured in the pre-publication window across the twenty-seven-provider panel. Normalized to USD per GPU-hour. For multi-GPU instances, this is a comparison unit, not an offer to rent one GPU separately. Currency is United States dollars; non-USD rates are reported alongside their USD equivalents. Source URL, capture window, and evidence record logged for every price.
This is the public leverage layer: the visible rate-card market that exists before private negotiation. Public list rates are one reference point in committed-use negotiation and procurement analysis. The Index reads that public signal without claiming to observe confidential contract pricing.
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What the Index does not measure.
Private contract pricing, which is confidential and customer-specific, can differ materially from public list pricing. The Index does not observe those confidential rates. Editorial addresses private pricing only when it enters the public record through filings, disclosures, or other attributable sources.
Reserved and committed-use pricing. Bundled enterprise pricing combined with storage, networking, and credits. Operators who do not publish on-demand rates, including Nscale, IREN, and Fluidstack, are acknowledged in editorial coverage but excluded from the Index calculation.
The line between what is measured and what is not is published in the same place as the number itself. Stating limits plainly is not a weakness of the methodology. It is the methodology.