H200 vs L40S: specs and rental price compared
H200 from $3.88/GPU/hr across 3 providers; L40S from $0.668/GPU/hr across 2 providers. The L40S is 83% cheaper at the entry rate.
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Price by provider
H200 vs L40S: common questions
Is the H200 or the L40S cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the H200 starts at $3.88/GPU/hr (median $4.11/GPU/hr across 3 providers) and the L40S starts at $0.668/GPU/hr (median $0.880/GPU/hr across 2 providers). The L40S is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 83%.
What is the difference between the H200 and the L40S?
The H200 has 141 GB of VRAM against the L40S's 45 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 $3.88/GPU/hr and the L40S from $0.668/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the H200 and the L40S?
3 providers list the H200 (Vast.ai, DataCrunch and Akash) and 2 list the L40S (Vast.ai and Massed Compute), across 3 and 2 regions respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai.
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 $3,882 on the H200 and $668 on the L40S — a difference of $3,214 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.
