A40 vs DGX A100: specs and rental price compared
A40 from $0.075/GPU/hr across 1 provider; DGX A100 from $1.24/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The A40 is 94% cheaper at the entry rate.
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A40 vs DGX A100: common questions
Is the A40 or the DGX A100 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A40 starts at $0.075/GPU/hr (median $0.075/GPU/hr across 1 provider) and the DGX A100 starts at $1.24/GPU/hr (median $1.38/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The A40 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 94%.
What is the difference between the A40 and the DGX A100?
The A40 has 2 GB of VRAM against the DGX A100's 80 GB; both are Ampere parts; both run BF16, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the A40 lists from $0.075/GPU/hr and the DGX A100 from $1.24/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A40 and the DGX A100?
1 provider list the A40 (Vultr) and 1 list the DGX A100 (Massed Compute), across 1 and 1 region respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A40 vs the DGX A100?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $75 on the A40 and $1,243 on the DGX A100 — a difference of $1,168 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.
