A100 vs L40: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. A100 from $0.838/GPU/hr across 5 providers; L40 from $0.690/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The L40 is 18% cheaper at the entry rate.
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A100 vs L40: common questions
Is the A100 or the L40 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A100 starts at $0.838/GPU/hr (median $1.39/GPU/hr across 5 providers) and the L40 starts at $0.690/GPU/hr (median $0.860/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The L40 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 18%.
What is the difference between the A100 and the L40?
The A100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the L40's 48 GB; the A100 is an Ampere part and the L40 is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 8.0 vs 8.9); only the L40 supports FP8 compute. On price, the A100 lists from $0.838/GPU/hr and the L40 from $0.690/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A100 and the L40?
5 providers list the A100 (Vast.ai, RunPod, Massed Compute, HyperStack and Akash) and 3 list the L40 (RunPod, Massed Compute and HyperStack), across 5 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod, Massed Compute and HyperStack.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A100 vs the L40?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $838 on the A100 and $690 on the L40 — a difference of $148 for the same runtime. Rates are per GPU per hour and update hourly.
How this comparison is calculated
Every price is normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate using the same pipeline as every other pricing surface on Aquanode, and only the cheapest qualifying offer per provider is shown. A dash means that provider does not currently list that GPU.
Architecture, compute capability and supported precisions come from each vendor's published datasheet for that generation — not from the marketplace feed. This page regenerates at most once per hour.
