H200 vs L40: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. H200 from $3.59/GPU/hr across 3 providers; L40 from $0.690/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The L40 is 81% cheaper at the entry rate.
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Price by provider
H200 vs L40: common questions
Is the H200 or the L40 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the H200 starts at $3.59/GPU/hr (median $4.59/GPU/hr across 3 providers) and the L40 starts at $0.690/GPU/hr (median $0.820/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The L40 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 81%.
What is the difference between the H200 and the L40?
The H200 has 141 GB of VRAM against the L40's 48 GB; the H200 is a Hopper part and the L40 is Ada Lovelace (compute capability 9.0 vs 8.9); both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the H200 lists from $3.59/GPU/hr and the L40 from $0.690/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the H200 and the L40?
3 providers list the H200 (RunPod, Vast.ai and HyperStack) and 3 list the L40 (RunPod, Massed Compute and HyperStack), across 3 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod and HyperStack.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the H200 vs the L40?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $3,590 on the H200 and $690 on the L40 — a difference of $2,900 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.
