L40 vs RTX A5000: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. L40 from $0.690/GPU/hr across 3 providers; RTX A5000 from $0.341/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The RTX A5000 is 51% cheaper at the entry rate.
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L40 vs RTX A5000: common questions
Is the L40 or the RTX A5000 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 RTX A5000 starts at $0.341/GPU/hr (median $0.341/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The RTX A5000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 51%.
What is the difference between the L40 and the RTX A5000?
The L40 has 48 GB of VRAM against the RTX A5000's 24 GB; the L40 is an Ada Lovelace part and the RTX A5000 is Ampere (compute capability 8.9 vs 8.6); only the L40 supports FP8 compute. On price, the L40 lists from $0.690/GPU/hr and the RTX A5000 from $0.341/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the L40 and the RTX A5000?
3 providers list the L40 (RunPod, Massed Compute and HyperStack) and 1 list the RTX A5000 (Vast.ai), across 3 and 1 region respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the L40 vs the RTX A5000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $690 on the L40 and $341 on the RTX A5000, a difference of $349 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.
