Clearing Basis
CCIR's headline reference rate is built from posted list-asks: every panel source posts a rate card. One venue is different. Vast.ai is a live, continuously-repriced, executable marketplace. Vast is tracked separately so the list-ask series stays clean, and re-surfaced here as a basis: how the live marketplace price sits relative to the ex-Vast list-ask floor at matched tier (Tier 3). Positive means the live venue is pricing above posted list-asks. Negative means below.
| Chip | List-ask floor | Vast | Basis · 7d | Basis · 1d | n (vast/list) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B200 | $5.98 | $7.00 on-demand · live ask | +17.1% | -0.7% | 2/3 |
| H200 | $3.99 | $4.34 on-demand · live ask | +8.8% | -7.6% | 2/5 |
| H100 | $3.17 | $2.07 on-demand · live ask | -34.7% | -45.2% | 2/10 |
| A100 | $1.98 | $0.69 on-demand · live ask | -65.3% | -64.0% | 2/5 |
| A100 | $1.59 | $0.84 on-demand · live ask | -47.4% | -36.6% | 2/8 |
As of 2026-08-22 · 7-day window · operator-equal medians, matched tier (Tier 3). Input is the bid clearing floor where Vast exposes one, otherwise the on-demand live ask (flagged per row). Single-venue signal: Vast only. It is the lone executable marketplace in the panel, not the whole market. A single-venue market-intelligence signal.
Implied market utilization — Vast marketplace
The same venue's listings disclose how much of each machine is currently rentable: enough to reconstruct occupancy machine by machine, snapshot by snapshot. Both lines read the same direction: higher means tighter. Capacity (solid): share of listed GPU capacity not currently rentable. Whole nodes (dashed): share of machines without a rentable 8-GPU block. The panel-wide availability view is a separate product (see Availability), and the two are never blended.
Four snapshots daily. A machine with zero rentable chunks may be fully rented or host-paused. The public feed cannot distinguish them, so the utilization read is IMPLIED: share of listed capacity not currently rentable. Denominator is listed capacity only. History begins 2026-05-13. Single-venue market-intelligence signal.