Gate News message, April 28 — IndiaAI reduced benchmark prices for Nvidia’s B200 GPUs by 10% in the fourth round of its compute tender. The new rates are set at 290.7 rupees (approximately US$3.1) per hour for a single unit and 2,325.6 rupees (approximately US$25) per hour for eight units.
The B200 benchmark price sits close to India’s market rates for older hardware. The H100 GPU averages around 249 rupees (US$2.6) per hour, while the H200 rents for approximately 300.14 rupees (US$3.2) per hour. Import duties add a 25-30% premium to GPU costs in India, raising prices significantly for both new and existing hardware.
Under the tender’s letter of intent (LoI), qualified bidders must match the lowest rates and supply at least 1,000 compute units within six months. Several bidders noted that the pricing may be difficult to sustain given rising memory costs and rupee weakness. The move is part of India’s government plan to expand domestic AI infrastructure through standardized rates and zero ingress and egress fees, creating a utility-style pricing model that contrasts with larger cloud providers’ pricing structures.
The tender addresses a gap in India’s AI compute availability; AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud do not currently offer newer GPUs such as the H100 in their Indian data center regions.
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