A100 vs L40: specs and rental price compared
A100 from $0.734/GPU/hr across 4 providers; L40 from $0.772/GPU/hr across 2 providers. The A100 is 5% cheaper at the entry rate.
Specs side by side
Price by provider
A100 vs L40: common questions
Is the A100 or the L40 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A100 starts at $0.734/GPU/hr (median $1.31/GPU/hr across 4 providers) and the L40 starts at $0.772/GPU/hr (median $0.860/GPU/hr across 2 providers). The A100 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 5%.
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 $0.734/GPU/hr and the L40 from $0.772/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A100 and the L40?
4 providers list the A100 (Vast.ai, Massed Compute, Akash and DataCrunch) and 2 list the L40 (Massed Compute and HyperStack), across 4 and 2 regions respectively. Both are available from Massed Compute.
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 $734 on the A100 and $773 on the L40 — a difference of $38 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.
