A40 vs L40: specs and rental price compared
A40 from $0.075/GPU/hr across 1 provider; L40 from $0.772/GPU/hr across 2 providers. The A40 is 90% cheaper at the entry rate.
Specs side by side
Price by provider
A40 vs L40: common questions
Is the A40 or the L40 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 L40 starts at $0.772/GPU/hr (median $0.860/GPU/hr across 2 providers). The A40 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 90%.
What is the difference between the A40 and the L40?
The A40 has 2 GB of VRAM against the L40's 48 GB; the A40 is an Ampere part and the L40 is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 8.6 vs 8.9); only the L40 supports FP8 compute. On price, the A40 lists from $0.075/GPU/hr and the L40 from $0.772/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A40 and the L40?
1 provider list the A40 (Vultr) and 2 list the L40 (Massed Compute and HyperStack), across 1 and 2 regions respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A40 vs the L40?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $75 on the A40 and $773 on the L40 — a difference of $698 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.
