RTX 4090 vs T4: cloud rental cost compared
You can rent both by the hour, no purchase required. RTX 4090 from $0.340/GPU/hr across 4 providers; T4 from $0.126/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The T4 is 63% cheaper at the entry rate.
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RTX 4090 vs T4: common questions
Is the RTX 4090 or the T4 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 4090 starts at $0.340/GPU/hr (median $0.626/GPU/hr across 4 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 63%.
What is the difference between the RTX 4090 and the T4?
The RTX 4090 has 24 GB of VRAM against the T4's 16 GB; the RTX 4090 is an Ada Lovelace part and the T4 is Turing (compute capability 8.9 vs 7.5); only the RTX 4090 supports BF16, FP8 compute. On price, the RTX 4090 lists from $0.340/GPU/hr and the T4 from $0.126/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 4090 and the T4?
4 providers list the RTX 4090 (RunPod, SimplePod, Vast.ai and Akash) and 1 list the T4 (Akash), across 4 and 1 region respectively. Both are available from Akash.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 4090 vs the T4?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $340 on the RTX 4090 and $126 on the T4 — a difference of $214 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.
