A100 vs RTX 6000 Ada: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. A100 from $0.821/GPU/hr across 6 providers; RTX 6000 Ada from $0.651/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The RTX 6000 Ada is 21% cheaper at the entry rate.
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A100 vs RTX 6000 Ada: common questions
Is the A100 or the RTX 6000 Ada cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A100 starts at $0.821/GPU/hr (median $1.39/GPU/hr across 6 providers) and the RTX 6000 Ada starts at $0.651/GPU/hr (median $0.790/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The RTX 6000 Ada is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 21%.
What is the difference between the A100 and the RTX 6000 Ada?
The A100 has 80 GB of VRAM against the RTX 6000 Ada's 48 GB; the A100 is an Ampere part and the RTX 6000 Ada is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 8.0 vs 8.9); only the RTX 6000 Ada supports FP8 compute. On price, the A100 lists from $0.821/GPU/hr and the RTX 6000 Ada from $0.651/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A100 and the RTX 6000 Ada?
6 providers list the A100 (Vast.ai, RunPod, Massed Compute, HyperStack, Akash and DataCrunch) and 3 list the RTX 6000 Ada (Vast.ai, RunPod and Massed Compute), across 6 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai, RunPod and Massed Compute.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A100 vs the RTX 6000 Ada?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $821 on the A100 and $651 on the RTX 6000 Ada — a difference of $171 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.
