Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know The headline rate is roughly ₹115–150 per GPU-hour for subsidised access — about 42% below the prevailing market. Published figures vary within that band, so treat it as a range, not a fixed sticker price. The pool is large and growing. 34,000 GPUs are live today, with a government commitment to scale to 100,000 GPUs by the end of 2026. It is a national-strategy programme. The IndiaAI Mission is a ₹10,371.92 crore (about $1.25 billion) effort to build sovereign AI infrastructure, and Sarvam AI was the first startup selected to build India's sovereign LLM under it. It is not free money. Eligibility approval, allocation queues and data-locality expectations mean the real cost lever only works for workloads you can plan around. For Indian builders this is the most…
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