Use-case guide · Reasoning / agentic

Should you pick H100 PCIe for reasoning / agentic?

H100 PCIe has 80 GB VRAM. Whether it's the right fit for reasoning / agentic depends on your model size, expected QPS, and budget. Below is what we're seeing in production.

VRAM + model fit

H100 PCIe fits models up to ~56B parameters in BF16 comfortably with room for KV-cache. For reasoning / agentic specifically, you'll want to leave headroom for context length growth.

Pricing

Live pricing across all providers for H100 PCIe is on the GPU detail page — click through for the sortable list.

Throughput

On reasoning / agentic workloads, H100 PCIe typically delivers the throughput published in its FP16 spec, minus the framework overhead (vLLM ≈ 85% MFU, TGI ≈ 70%).

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