A100 vs RTX 3090: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. A100 from $0.734/GPU/hr across 5 providers; RTX 3090 from $0.160/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The RTX 3090 is 78% cheaper at the entry rate.
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A100 vs RTX 3090: common questions
Is the A100 or the RTX 3090 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A100 starts at $0.734/GPU/hr (median $1.54/GPU/hr across 5 providers) and the RTX 3090 starts at $0.160/GPU/hr (median $0.254/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The RTX 3090 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 78%.
What is the difference between the A100 and the RTX 3090?
The A100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX 3090's 24 GB; both are Ampere parts; both run BF16, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the A100 lists from $0.734/GPU/hr and the RTX 3090 from $0.160/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A100 and the RTX 3090?
5 providers list the A100 (Vast.ai, RunPod, Massed Compute, HyperStack and Akash) and 4 list the RTX 3090 (SimplePod, Akash, RunPod and Vast.ai), across 5 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai, RunPod and Akash.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A100 vs the RTX 3090?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $734 on the A100 and $160 on the RTX 3090 — a difference of $574 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.
