L40S vs RTX A6000: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. L40S from $0.668/GPU/hr across 4 providers; RTX A6000 from $0.330/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The RTX A6000 is 51% cheaper at the entry rate.
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L40S vs RTX A6000: common questions
Is the L40S or the RTX A6000 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the L40S starts at $0.668/GPU/hr (median $1.09/GPU/hr across 4 providers) and the RTX A6000 starts at $0.330/GPU/hr (median $0.530/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The RTX A6000 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 51%.
What is the difference between the L40S and the RTX A6000?
Both cards report 48 GB of VRAM; the L40S is an Ada Lovelace part and the RTX A6000 is Ampere (compute capability 8.9 vs 8.6); only the L40S supports FP8 compute. On price, the L40S lists from $0.668/GPU/hr and the RTX A6000 from $0.330/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the L40S and the RTX A6000?
4 providers list the L40S (Vast.ai, RunPod, Massed Compute and Nebius) and 4 list the RTX A6000 (RunPod, Massed Compute, HyperStack and Vast.ai), across 4 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai, RunPod and Massed Compute.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the L40S vs the RTX A6000?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $668 on the L40S and $330 on the RTX A6000, a difference of $338 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.
