L4 vs V100: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. L4 from $0.490/GPU/hr across 1 provider; V100 from $0.080/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The V100 is 84% cheaper at the entry rate.
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Price by provider
L4 vs V100: common questions
Is the L4 or the V100 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 V100 starts at $0.080/GPU/hr (median $0.170/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The V100 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 84%.
What is the difference between the L4 and the V100?
The L4 has 24 GB of VRAM against the V100's 32 GB; the L4 is an Ada Lovelace part and the V100 is Volta (compute capability 8.9 vs 7.0); only the L4 supports BF16, FP8, INT4 compute. On price, the L4 lists from $0.490/GPU/hr and the V100 from $0.080/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the L4 and the V100?
1 provider list the L4 (RunPod) and 3 list the V100 (SimplePod, Akash 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 V100?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $490 on the L4 and $80 on the V100, a difference of $410 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.
