L40 vs V100: specs and rental price compared
L40 from $0.690/GPU/hr across 3 providers; V100 from $0.070/GPU/hr across 5 providers. The V100 is 90% cheaper at the entry rate.
Specs side by side
Price by provider
L40 vs V100: common questions
Is the L40 or the V100 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 V100 starts at $0.070/GPU/hr (median $0.180/GPU/hr across 5 providers). The V100 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 90%.
What is the difference between the L40 and the V100?
The L40 has 48 GB of VRAM against the V100's 32 GB; the L40 is an Ada Lovelace part and the V100 is Volta (compute capability 8.9 vs 7.0); only the L40 supports BF16, FP8, INT4 compute. On price, the L40 lists from $0.690/GPU/hr and the V100 from $0.070/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the L40 and the V100?
3 providers list the L40 (RunPod, Massed Compute and HyperStack) and 5 list the V100 (SimplePod, DataCrunch, RunPod, Akash and Vast.ai), across 3 and 5 regions respectively. Both are available from RunPod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the L40 vs the V100?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $690 on the L40 and $70 on the V100 — a difference of $620 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.
