RTX 5090 vs T4: specs and rental price compared
RTX 5090 from $0.158/GPU/hr across 3 providers; T4 from $0.158/GPU/hr across 1 provider.
Specs side by side
Price by provider
RTX 5090 vs T4: common questions
Is the RTX 5090 or the T4 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX 5090 starts at $0.158/GPU/hr (median $0.663/GPU/hr across 3 providers) and the T4 starts at $0.158/GPU/hr (median $0.158/GPU/hr across 1 provider). Both models currently start at the same rate.
What is the difference between the RTX 5090 and the T4?
The RTX 5090 has 32 GB of VRAM against the T4's 16 GB; the RTX 5090 is a Blackwell part and the T4 is Turing (compute capability 12.0 vs 7.5); only the RTX 5090 supports BF16, FP8 compute. On price, the RTX 5090 lists from $0.158/GPU/hr and the T4 from $0.158/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX 5090 and the T4?
3 providers list the RTX 5090 (Akash, Vast.ai and Simplepod) and 1 list the T4 (Akash), across 3 and 1 region respectively. Both are available from Akash.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX 5090 vs the T4?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $158 on the RTX 5090 and $158 on the T4 — identical spend. 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.
