L40 vs T4: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. L40 from $0.690/GPU/hr across 3 providers; T4 from $0.126/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The T4 is 82% cheaper at the entry rate.
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L40 vs T4: common questions
Is the L40 or the T4 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 T4 starts at $0.126/GPU/hr (median $0.126/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The T4 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 82%.
What is the difference between the L40 and the T4?
The L40 has 48 GB of VRAM against the T4's 16 GB; the L40 is an Ada Lovelace part and the T4 is Turing (compute capability 8.9 vs 7.5); only the L40 supports BF16, FP8 compute. On price, the L40 lists from $0.690/GPU/hr and the T4 from $0.126/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the L40 and the T4?
3 providers list the L40 (RunPod, Massed Compute and HyperStack) and 1 list the T4 (Akash), 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 T4?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $690 on the L40 and $126 on the T4 — a difference of $564 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.
