CCIR publishes a reference rate at each Intelligence Factory tier — Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 — because compute becomes financeable not when it is flattened into one price, but when it is segmented into real, transactable capability bundles.
The same H100 silicon is deployed across all three tiers. A buyer choosing among a Tier 1 hyperscale deployment, a Tier 2 dedicated cluster, and a Tier 3 marketplace listing isn't choosing between three prices of the same product — they're choosing between three products that happen to share a chip.
| Silicon | T1IF | T2IF | T3IF | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median $/hr | Trend · 7d | n | Median $/hr | Trend · 7d | n | Median $/hr | Trend · 7d | n | |
| B200 CRI-T1IF-B200-ALL-GTD-OD-ALL | $11.30 | 4 | $6.04 | 4 | $5.98 | 5 | |||
| H200 CRI-T1IF-H200-ALL-GTD-OD-ALL | $7.91 | 5 | $4.54 | 4 | $3.47 | 8 | |||
| H100 CRI-T1IF-H100-ALL-GTD-OD-ALL | $6.88 | 5 | $3.29 | 4 | $2.57 | 12 | |||
| A100 CRI-T2IF-A100-ALL-GTD-OD-ALL | — | — | $2.33 | 8 | $1.27 | 3 | |||
Each tier is a defined capability bundle — fabric, host, support, compliance. CCIR publishes one reference rate per tier so users can match the index cited to the deployment grade they pay for, narrowing basis risk relative to a single-rate alternative.
Top-grade fabric (≥ 3 Tbps/node disclosed RDMA — IB-NDR, EFAv2, or RoCE-v2 in non-blocking 8-rail builds), dedicated single-tenant bare-metal, full enterprise bundle — managed operations, tiered support, observability, egress allowance, regulated-workload compliance. The deepest capability bundle in the CCIR panel.
Dedicated single-tenant bare-metal with disclosed real fabric (IB-HDR, RoCE-v2 mid, or sub-3 Tbps IB-NDR variants), no requirement for full enterprise bundle. The middle grade — real fabric, lighter wrap.
Co-located, shared, or marketplace clearing — plus dedicated hosts that don't disclose a real fabric. Variable Ethernet underlay, self-serve, no support tier, interruptibility common. The lowest rate band — and the most constrained bundle behind it.
| Attribute | T1IF | T2IF | T3IF |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tenancy | Dedicated bare-metal, single-tenant | Dedicated bare-metal, single-tenant | Shared-pool or marketplace |
| Fabric | ≥ 3 Tbps/node disclosed (8-rail IB-NDR / EFAv2 / RoCE-v2 non-blocking) | ≥ 400 Gbps/node disclosed (IB-HDR / RoCE / sub-3 Tbps IB-NDR) | Ethernet, undisclosed, or sub-400 Gbps trivial RDMA |
| Bundle depth | Managed ops, tiered support, observability, egress allowance, compliance | Bundle varies — not gated; observed mix of basic to richer disclosures | Self-serve, no support tier |
| Typical operators | AWS · Azure · OCI · CoreWeave · Nebius | Crusoe · Denvr · Lambda Cluster · RunPod Cluster · RunPod Secure | Vast.ai · DigitalOcean · Hyperstack · Scaleway · DataCrunch · RunPod Community · Genesis Cloud · Massed Compute · TensorDock · Lambda OD |
| Use case | Production training, regulated workloads | Dedicated training, less ceremony | Cost-sensitive batch, dev/test, spot |
Each tier is a capability bundle. The matrix describes what the rate at each tier actually packages — fabric, host, bundle depth, typical operators, use case.
Provider-posted rate cards and on-demand pricing pages, scraped daily. No solicited quotes, no broker feeds.
Operator-equal median: each operator counts as one vote regardless of SKU count. Median of per-source medians at each tier.
3 sources / 5 observations to publish. Below-gate cells emit as Shadow series and are flagged in the explorer.
Per-SKU algorithmic classifier on a capability bundle (fabric, host topology, support, compliance). Premium silicons only.
See /tiers for the editorial framing, /spreads for the T1IF-anchored spread matrix, and /applications for worked credit-document examples.