Prices start high and decrease over time. The first customer to accept the current price receives the allocation. Their price is locked until they delete the virtual machine, even if market pricing rises at a later date. When customers release H100s back to the market, they are reauctioned again starting at $3.50.
Prices will always be competitive. Because pricing is reduced until a buyer is willing to accept it, the final price is the minimum at which demand meets supply.
We will always have available stock. As long as demand does not surpass $3.50 and existing customers continuously finish workloads — returning servers back to the market — there will always be stock available for deployment.
The best time to rent is now. If the cheapest available node is priced at $2.50, it's likely because other customers have already rented all cheaper servers... If you wait and let pricing drop further, someone else might claim the server before you!