L40 vs RTX 5090: specs and rental price compared
L40 from $0.772/GPU/hr across 2 providers; RTX 5090 from $0.158/GPU/hr across 3 providers. The RTX 5090 is 80% cheaper at the entry rate.
Specs side by side
Price by provider
L40 vs RTX 5090: common questions
Is the L40 or the RTX 5090 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the L40 starts at $0.772/GPU/hr (median $0.860/GPU/hr across 2 providers) and the RTX 5090 starts at $0.158/GPU/hr (median $0.670/GPU/hr across 3 providers). The RTX 5090 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 80%.
What is the difference between the L40 and the RTX 5090?
The L40 has 48 GB of VRAM against the RTX 5090's 32 GB; the L40 is an Ada Lovelace part and the RTX 5090 is Blackwell (compute capability 8.9 vs 12.0); both run BF16, FP8, INT4 workloads in hardware. On price, the L40 lists from $0.772/GPU/hr and the RTX 5090 from $0.158/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the L40 and the RTX 5090?
2 providers list the L40 (Massed Compute and HyperStack) and 3 list the RTX 5090 (Akash, Vast.ai and Simplepod), across 2 and 3 regions respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the L40 vs the RTX 5090?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $773 on the L40 and $158 on the RTX 5090 — a difference of $615 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.
