A40 vs L40S: specs and rental price compared
A40 from $0.075/GPU/hr across 2 providers; L40S from $0.575/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The A40 is 87% cheaper at the entry rate.
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Price by provider
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 $0.440/GPU/hr across 2 providers) and the L40S starts at $0.575/GPU/hr (median $0.880/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The A40 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 87%.
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 $0.575/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A40 and the L40S?
2 providers list the A40 (Vultr and RunPod) and 3 list the L40S (Vast.ai, RunPod and Massed Compute), across 2 and 3 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 $575 on the L40S — a difference of $500 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.
