NVIDIA Blackwell Chip Rental Rates Rise 48% in Two Months

Hourly rental rates for NVIDIA Blackwell chips rose 48% over two months to $4.08 as demand for AI agents drove companies to secure more computing capacity.

The rate was $2.75 two months earlier. Demand in recent months has grown for AI agents that can write code and handle tasks such as scheduling real-estate tours. TokenPost previously covered rental prices across listed GPU tiers.

OpenAI API usage rose from 6 billion tokens per minute in October 2025 to 15 billion in late March 2026.

In late March, Anthropic began limiting users’ token use on weekdays during peak hours, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. ET.

CoreWeave raised service prices by more than 20% in late 2025 and required smaller customers to sign contracts lasting at least three years, compared with one-year terms previously. OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said computing shortages led OpenAI to abandon some projects.