A40 vs V100: specs and rental price compared
A40 from $0.075/GPU/hr across 1 provider; V100 from $0.070/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The V100 is 7% cheaper at the entry rate.
Specs side by side
Price by provider
A40 vs V100: common questions
Is the A40 or the V100 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 V100 starts at $0.070/GPU/hr (median $0.180/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The V100 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 7%.
What is the difference between the A40 and the V100?
The A40 has 2 GB of VRAM against the V100's 32 GB; the A40 is an Ampere part and the V100 is Volta (compute capability 8.6 vs 7.0); only the A40 supports BF16, INT4 compute. On price, the A40 lists from $0.075/GPU/hr and the V100 from $0.070/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the A40 and the V100?
1 provider list the A40 (Vultr) and 4 list the V100 (Simplepod, DataCrunch, Akash and Vast.ai), across 1 and 4 regions respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the A40 vs the V100?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $75 on the A40 and $70 on the V100 — a difference of $5 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.
