Luxor Launches the AI Hardware Price Index on Hashrate Index

Hashrate Index now tracks the daily median asking price of 8-GPU NVIDIA HGX nodes, giving the AI hardware market its first public reference price.

Bellevue, Washington — August 31st, 2026 — Luxor Technology Corporation today announced the launch of the AI Hardware Price Index on Hashrate Index, its data and research platform. The index tracks the daily median asking price of air-cooled 8-GPU NVIDIA HGX nodes across three series: B300 (new), H100 (new), and H100 (refurbished), available per node and per GPU, in USD or BTC.

The market for AI compute hardware operates without a public reference price. Asking prices for identical machines currently span as much as 1.7x across vendors, and the secondary market runs through private broker relationships. A buyer trying to establish what an 8-GPU node is worth this week has had no neutral benchmark. The AI Hardware Price Index provides one, built the same way Luxor built the ASIC Price Index into the reference price for Bitcoin mining hardware in 2020.

At launch, the index prints a B300 node at $544,280 ($68,035 per GPU), a new H100 node at $324,438 ($40,555 per GPU), and a refurbished H100 node at $246,000 ($30,750 per GPU). Refurbished H100 nodes trade at 76% of new, a figure that provides the first public datapoint for GPU depreciation and residual value analysis. Figures are posted vendor asks, not closed transactions, with every listing carried at its last observed price and the published value calculated as the median of all live listings each day.

"We saw the same market structure emerge before. In 2020, mining hardware traded on private quotes with no public reference, so we built the ASIC Price Index, and it became an industry benchmark in research and financing agreements. AI hardware is at that same stage today, and we are running the same playbook" said Ethan Vera, COO of Luxor Technology.

The index dataset expands daily as vendors and history accumulate, and Luxor is working toward transaction-derived pricing built on executed secondary market data. Dedicated pages for the B300 Node and H100 Node break out each platform with series-specific history.

The AI Hardware Price Index is free to access and cite at data.hashrateindex.com. The full methodology and launch analysis are available on the Hashrate Index blog.

About Hashrate Index

Hashrate Index is the data and research platform of Luxor Technology Corporation, providing market data, indices, and analysis for the compute industry, including hashprice, the ASIC Price Index, and the AI Hardware Price Index. Luxor Technology Corporation delivers hardware, software, and financial services powering the global compute and energy industry. Learn more at luxor.tech.

Media Contacts

Luxor Technology — Kaan Farahani, Research Associate — [email protected] — www.luxor.tech