L40 vs L40S: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. L40 from $0.690/GPU/hr across 3 providers; L40S from $0.790/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The L40 is 13% cheaper at the entry rate.
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L40 vs L40S: common questions
Is the L40 or the L40S cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the L40 starts at $0.690/GPU/hr (median $0.820/GPU/hr across 3 providers) and the L40S starts at $0.790/GPU/hr (median $0.990/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The L40 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 13%.
What is the difference between the L40 and the L40S?
Both cards report 48 GB of VRAM; both are Ada Lovelace parts; both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the L40 lists from $0.690/GPU/hr and the L40S from $0.790/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the L40 and the L40S?
3 providers list the L40 (RunPod, Massed Compute and HyperStack) and 3 list the L40S (RunPod, Vast.ai and Massed Compute), across 3 and 3 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod and Massed Compute.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the L40 vs the L40S?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $690 on the L40 and $790 on the L40S — a difference of $100 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.
