Compute Exchange opens secondary market for used Nvidia H100 and A100 GPUs
The Compute Exchange Inc., a procurement marketplace for reserved graphics processing unit capacity, today launched a dedicated marketplace for used and refurbished GPUs, extending the platform into physical artificial intelligence hardware sourcing.
The service connects buyers with suppliers of older-generation Nvidia Corp. GPUs, particularly the H100 and A100, as enterprises, cloud providers and AI startups look to add capacity without paying for the newest chips. Compute Exchange said demand in the secondary market is concentrated around proven production hardware rather than the latest GPU generations.
Buyers submit hardware requests and are matched with qualified suppliers, with the platform providing support across sourcing, logistics and transaction execution. The company said it maintains a market-neutral position between buyers and sellers, a structure it argues sets the service apart from traditional procurement channels.
Requests have ranged from hundreds to tens of thousands of GPUs, according to Compute Exchange, spanning AI startups, cloud providers, enterprises and other infrastructure operators seeking additional capacity through the secondary market.
“Not every workload requires the newest generation of GPUs,” said Carmen Li, chief executive of Compute Exchange and founder of Silicon Data Inc. “For many organizations, used and refurbished hardware offers the fastest and most economical path to expanding AI infrastructure. We see the secondary GPU market as a natural step toward making AI infrastructure more efficient, transparent and accessible.”
The launch points to a shift in how organizations are approaching AI hardware. Nvidia’s newer Blackwell systems continue to reach the market, but many buyers are finding that H100 and A100 GPUs remain more than capable of running production workloads at a substantially lower cost. The H100, introduced in 2022 and the earlier A100 powered much of the first wave of generative AI development and remain in heavy use across data centers.
Compute Exchange originally launched as a procurement marketplace for reserved GPU capacity, giving AI teams a single venue to secure compute across more than 100 providers. The company frames the hardware marketplace as the next step in a broader push to bring transparency and liquidity to AI infrastructure markets, adding physical sourcing alongside capacity discovery.
Silicon Data, whose founder Li took over as Compute Exchange chief executive in October, supplies real-time GPU pricing benchmarks and indexes used to value compute. Compute Exchange was co-founded by Don Wilson, founder of trading firm DRW Holdings Inc. and Suna Said, CEO of Woodside AI Venture Studio LLC.
The marketplace is now accepting requests from organizations looking to buy or sell used and refurbished GPU infrastructure.
Image: Compute Exchange
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