L4 vs RTX A6000: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. L4 from $0.490/GPU/hr across 1 provider; RTX A6000 from $0.500/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The L4 is 2% cheaper at the entry rate.
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Price by provider
L4 vs RTX A6000: common questions
Is the L4 or the RTX A6000 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 A6000 starts at $0.500/GPU/hr (median $0.550/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The L4 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 2%.
What is the difference between the L4 and the RTX A6000?
The L4 has 24 GB of VRAM against the RTX A6000's 48 GB; the L4 is an Ada Lovelace part and the RTX A6000 is Ampere (compute capability 8.9 vs 8.6); only the L4 supports FP8 compute. On price, the L4 lists from $0.490/GPU/hr and the RTX A6000 from $0.500/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the L4 and the RTX A6000?
1 provider list the L4 (RunPod) and 3 list the RTX A6000 (Massed Compute, HyperStack and RunPod), 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 A6000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $490 on the L4 and $500 on the RTX A6000, a difference of $10 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.
