A40 vs H100: specs and rental price compared
A40 from $0.075/GPU/hr across 1 provider; H100 from $2.29/GPU/hr across 5 providers. The A40 is 97% cheaper at the entry rate.
Specs side by side
Price by provider
A40 vs H100: common questions
Is the A40 or the H100 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 H100 starts at $2.29/GPU/hr (median $2.70/GPU/hr across 5 providers). The A40 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 97%.
What is the difference between the A40 and the H100?
The A40 has 2 GB of VRAM against the H100's 80 GB; the A40 is an Ampere part and the H100 is Hopper (compute capability 8.6 vs 9.0); only the H100 supports FP8 compute. On price, the A40 lists from $0.075/GPU/hr and the H100 from $2.29/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A40 and the H100?
1 provider list the A40 (Vultr) and 5 list the H100 (Vast.ai, Massed Compute, HyperStack, Akash and DataCrunch), across 1 and 5 regions respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A40 vs the H100?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $75 on the A40 and $2,295 on the H100 — a difference of $2,220 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.
