L40S vs V100: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. L40S from $0.668/GPU/hr across 4 providers; V100 from $0.060/GPU/hr across 4 providers. The V100 is 91% cheaper at the entry rate.
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L40S vs V100: common questions
Is the L40S or the V100 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 V100 starts at $0.060/GPU/hr (median $0.170/GPU/hr across 4 providers). The V100 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 91%.
What is the difference between the L40S and the V100?
The L40S has 48 GB of VRAM against the V100's 16 GB; the L40S is an Ada Lovelace part and the V100 is Volta (compute capability 8.9 vs 7.0); only the L40S supports BF16, FP8, INT4 compute. On price, the L40S lists from $0.668/GPU/hr and the V100 from $0.060/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the L40S and the V100?
4 providers list the L40S (Vast.ai, RunPod, Massed Compute and Nebius) and 4 list the V100 (SimplePod, RunPod, Akash and Vast.ai), across 4 and 4 regions respectively. Both are available from Vast.ai and RunPod.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the L40S vs the V100?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $668 on the L40S and $60 on the V100, a difference of $608 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.
