A40 vs L40S: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. A40 from $0.075/GPU/hr across 2 providers; L40S from $0.790/GPU/hr across 5 providers. The A40 is 91% cheaper at the entry rate.
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A40 vs L40S: common questions
Is the A40 or the L40S cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the A40 starts at $0.075/GPU/hr (median $0.490/GPU/hr across 2 providers) and the L40S starts at $0.790/GPU/hr (median $1.09/GPU/hr across 5 providers). The A40 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 91%.
What is the difference between the A40 and the L40S?
Both cards report 48 GB of VRAM; the A40 is an Ampere part and the L40S is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 8.6 vs 8.9); only the L40S supports FP8 compute. On price, the A40 lists from $0.075/GPU/hr and the L40S from $0.790/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A40 and the L40S?
2 providers list the A40 (Vultr and RunPod) and 5 list the L40S (RunPod, Vast.ai, Massed Compute, Verda and Nebius), across 2 and 5 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A40 vs the L40S?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $75 on the A40 and $790 on the L40S, a difference of $715 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.
