A40 vs H200: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. A40 from $0.075/GPU/hr across 2 providers; H200 from $3.59/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The A40 is 98% cheaper at the entry rate.
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A40 vs H200: common questions
Is the A40 or the H200 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A40 starts at $0.075/GPU/hr (median $0.440/GPU/hr across 2 providers) and the H200 starts at $3.59/GPU/hr (median $4.59/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The A40 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 98%.
What is the difference between the A40 and the H200?
The A40 has 48 GB of VRAM against the H200's 141 GB; the A40 is an Ampere part and the H200 is Hopper (compute capability 8.6 vs 9.0); only the H200 supports FP8 compute. On price, the A40 lists from $0.075/GPU/hr and the H200 from $3.59/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A40 and the H200?
2 providers list the A40 (Vultr and RunPod) and 4 list the H200 (RunPod, Vast.ai, DataCrunch and HyperStack), across 2 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A40 vs the H200?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $75 on the A40 and $3,590 on the H200 — a difference of $3,515 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.
