A100 vs RTX 5060 Ti: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. A100 from $0.480/GPU/hr across 7 providers; RTX 5060 Ti from $0.145/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The RTX 5060 Ti is 70% cheaper at the entry rate.
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A100 vs RTX 5060 Ti: common questions
Is the A100 or the RTX 5060 Ti cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A100 starts at $0.480/GPU/hr (median $1.39/GPU/hr across 7 providers) and the RTX 5060 Ti starts at $0.145/GPU/hr (median $0.237/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The RTX 5060 Ti is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 70%.
What is the difference between the A100 and the RTX 5060 Ti?
The A100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX 5060 Ti's 16 GB; the A100 is an Ampere part and the RTX 5060 Ti is Blackwell (compute capability 8.0 vs 12.0); only the RTX 5060 Ti supports FP8 compute. On price, the A100 lists from $0.480/GPU/hr and the RTX 5060 Ti from $0.145/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A100 and the RTX 5060 Ti?
7 providers list the A100 (SimplePod, Vast.ai, RunPod, Verda, Massed Compute, HyperStack and Akash) and 1 list the RTX 5060 Ti (Vast.ai), across 7 and 1 region respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A100 vs the RTX 5060 Ti?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $480 on the A100 and $145 on the RTX 5060 Ti, a difference of $335 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.
