L4 vs RTX 4090: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. L4 from $0.490/GPU/hr across 1 provider; RTX 4090 from $0.340/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The RTX 4090 is 31% cheaper at the entry rate.
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L4 vs RTX 4090: common questions
Is the L4 or the RTX 4090 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 RTX 4090 starts at $0.340/GPU/hr (median $0.522/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The RTX 4090 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 31%.
What is the difference between the L4 and the RTX 4090?
Both cards report 24 GB of VRAM; 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 RTX 4090 from $0.340/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the L4 and the RTX 4090?
1 provider list the L4 (RunPod) and 3 list the RTX 4090 (RunPod, SimplePod and Akash), across 1 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the L4 vs the RTX 4090?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $490 on the L4 and $340 on the RTX 4090, a difference of $150 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.
