North America vs Asia Pacific

North America has the lowest pricing and broadest availability. Asia Pacific pricing varies widely by sub-region, with India approaching North American rates while Japan and Singapore carry premiums.

North America and Asia Pacific represent the most established and fastest-growing GPU markets respectively. North America's pricing advantage is consistent, but Asia Pacific's diversity means the picture varies significantly by sub-region.

Japan and Singapore offer mature GPU markets with pricing 15-25% above North America. These regions provide strong availability of mainstream and high-end GPUs, making them viable for both training and inference workloads serving Asian markets.

India is the pricing outlier in Asia Pacific — GPU costs in Mumbai and Hyderabad can approach or match North American rates for certain GPU types. This makes India increasingly attractive for cost-sensitive training workloads, particularly for organisations that can tolerate slightly higher latency to Western markets.

For inference serving Asian end users, deploying in Asia Pacific eliminates 150-250ms of latency compared to routing through North America. This latency difference can be critical for real-time AI applications.