L4 vs L40S: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. L4 from $0.490/GPU/hr across 1 provider; L40S from $0.880/GPU/hr across 2 providers. The L4 is 44% cheaper at the entry rate.
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Price by provider
L4 vs L40S: common questions
Is the L4 or the L40S cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the L4 starts at $0.490/GPU/hr (median $0.490/GPU/hr across 1 provider) and the L40S starts at $0.880/GPU/hr (median $0.935/GPU/hr across 2 providers). The L4 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 44%.
What is the difference between the L4 and the L40S?
The L4 has 24 GB of VRAM against the L40S's 48 GB; both are Ada Lovelace parts; both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the L4 lists from $0.490/GPU/hr and the L40S from $0.880/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the L4 and the L40S?
1 provider list the L4 (RunPod) and 2 list the L40S (Massed Compute and RunPod), across 1 and 2 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the L4 vs the L40S?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $490 on the L4 and $880 on the L40S, a difference of $390 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.
