A100 vs RTX 5090: specs and rental price compared
A100 from $0.781/GPU/hr across 5 providers; RTX 5090 from $0.158/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The RTX 5090 is 80% cheaper at the entry rate.
Specs side by side
Price by provider
A100 vs RTX 5090: common questions
Is the A100 or the RTX 5090 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A100 starts at $0.781/GPU/hr (median $1.38/GPU/hr across 5 providers) and the RTX 5090 starts at $0.158/GPU/hr (median $0.768/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The RTX 5090 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 80%.
What is the difference between the A100 and the RTX 5090?
The A100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX 5090's 32 GB; the A100 is an Ampere part and the RTX 5090 is Blackwell (compute capability 8.0 vs 12.0); only the RTX 5090 supports FP8 compute. On price, the A100 lists from $0.781/GPU/hr and the RTX 5090 from $0.158/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A100 and the RTX 5090?
5 providers list the A100 (Vast.ai, RunPod, Massed Compute, Akash and DataCrunch) and 4 list the RTX 5090 (Akash, Vast.ai, SimplePod and RunPod), 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 5090?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $781 on the A100 and $158 on the RTX 5090 — a difference of $624 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.
