H200 vs L40S: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. H200 from $3.59/GPU/hr across 7 providers; L40S from $0.668/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The L40S is 81% cheaper at the entry rate.
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H200 vs L40S: common questions
Is the H200 or the L40S cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the H200 starts at $3.59/GPU/hr (median $4.50/GPU/hr across 7 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 81%.
What is the difference between the H200 and the L40S?
The H200 has 141 GB of VRAM against the L40S's 48 GB; the H200 is a Hopper part and the L40S 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 L40S from $0.668/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the H200 and the L40S?
7 providers list the H200 (RunPod, Massed Compute, Jarvislabs, Vast.ai, Verda, Nebius and Akash) and 4 list the L40S (Vast.ai, RunPod, Massed Compute and Nebius), across 7 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod, Massed Compute, Vast.ai and Nebius.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the H200 vs the L40S?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $3,590 on the H200 and $668 on the L40S, a difference of $2,922 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.
