B200 vs L40S: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. B200 from $6.79/GPU/hr across 2 providers; L40S from $0.880/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The L40S is 87% 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 2 providers) and the L40S starts at $0.880/GPU/hr (median $0.990/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The L40S is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 87%.
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 $0.880/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the B200 and the L40S?
2 providers list the B200 (RunPod and Vast.ai) and 3 list the L40S (Massed Compute, Vast.ai and RunPod), across 2 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod 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 $880 on the L40S — a difference of $5,910 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.
