B200 vs L40S: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. B200 from $6.79/GPU/hr across 3 providers; L40S from $0.668/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The L40S is 90% cheaper at the entry rate.
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B200 vs L40S: common questions
Is the B200 or the L40S cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the B200 starts at $6.79/GPU/hr (median $6.79/GPU/hr across 3 providers) and the L40S starts at $0.668/GPU/hr (median $1.09/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The L40S is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 90%.
What is the difference between the B200 and the L40S?
The B200 has 180 GB of VRAM against the L40S's 48 GB; the B200 is a Blackwell part and the L40S is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 10.0 vs 8.9); both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the B200 lists from $6.79/GPU/hr and the L40S from $0.668/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the B200 and the L40S?
3 providers list the B200 (RunPod, Nebius and Vast.ai) and 4 list the L40S (Vast.ai, RunPod, Massed Compute and Nebius), across 3 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod, Nebius and Vast.ai.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the B200 vs the L40S?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $6,790 on the B200 and $668 on the L40S, a difference of $6,122 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.
