SiliconNavigator™ Announcements

📌 Note: These announcements cover the GPU rental CSV download products — the tier 2 (country-level) and tier 3 (instance-level) files available through the Silicon Navigator™ API bulk download endpoints.

Announcement ID 260904-1

Announcement Date: 2026-09-04
Effective Date: 2026-09-20
Type: Coverage and Schema Change
Restatement: Yes

Summary

Our GPU rental dataset has been rebuilt, delivering broader provider and hardware coverage, higher data volume, improved data quality, and schema additions. The changes affect the CSV download products only — the tier 2 and tier 3 files. Note: Please be aware that this update applies exclusively to the GPU rental download products, not the retail data.

What’s Changing

Affected Products:

Tier 2 (country-level) Rental CSV files
Tier 3 (instance-level) Rental CSV files

Restatement: On the effective date, the entire history is restated — every historical file is re-published under the new methodology and schema, so past and future data are fully consistent.

Change Details

1. Broader coverage

Provider coverage grew from a few dozen sources to well over 70 vetted providers across hyperscalers, neoclouds, and marketplaces, each admitted through an explicit review process.
Hardware coverage roughly doubled, from around 60 priced GPU/accelerator products to well over 100.

2. Data Volume Increases

Data volume increases substantially, driven mainly by hyperscaler data and the broader provider coverage.

3. Data Quality Improvements

Two corrections visibly change category-level volumes:

Several providers previously classified as marketplaces are now correctly classified as neoclouds.
Marketplace feeds are deduplicated — the same machine captured multiple times per day now counts once.

Beyond that, every listing passes a uniform pipeline before publication: hardware is verified against official specifications, price arithmetic and rental terms are enforced, and cluster listings are normalized so per-GPU economics stay comparable.

4. Schema changes

Tier 3 (instance-level data)

All existing columns, names, and their order are unchanged; four new columns are appended at the end:

New column	Meaning
`product_slug`	stable, canonical hardware identifier (e.g. `n-h100-sxm-80g`)
`vendor`	the accelerator’s maker
`accelerator_type`	gpu, asic, or fpga
`cluster_size`	machines in a multi-node listing (1 for a single machine); `num_gpus` is always per machine

Tier 2 (country-level data)

Column	Meaning
`date` (or `month` / `year`)	the period the benchmark covers
`product_slug`	the same canonical hardware identifier as tier 3
`name`, `manufacturer`	the product’s canonical name and maker
`country`	ISO country code (plus an `unknown` bucket)
`type`, `type_description`	the rental term — formerly named `price_type`
`price`	average hourly per-GPU price (average of daily averages)
`provider_source_type`	`Hyperscaler`, `Neocloud`, `Marketplace`, or `Average` for the roll-up
`product_id`	dropped
`chip`	dropped