RTX A6000 vs T4: specs and rental price compared
RTX A6000 from $0.500/GPU/hr across 2 providers; T4 from $0.158/GPU/hr across 1 provider. The T4 is 69% cheaper at the entry rate.
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Price by provider
RTX A6000 vs T4: common questions
Is the RTX A6000 or the T4 cheaper to rent?
On Aquanode's live marketplace the RTX A6000 starts at $0.500/GPU/hr (median $0.570/GPU/hr across 2 providers) and the T4 starts at $0.158/GPU/hr (median $0.158/GPU/hr across 1 provider). The T4 is the cheaper of the two at the entry rate, by 69%.
What is the difference between the RTX A6000 and the T4?
The RTX A6000 has 48 GB of VRAM against the T4's 16 GB; the RTX A6000 is an Ampere part and the T4 is Turing (compute capability 8.6 vs 7.5); only the RTX A6000 supports BF16 compute. On price, the RTX A6000 lists from $0.500/GPU/hr and the T4 from $0.158/GPU/hr.
Which cloud providers offer the RTX A6000 and the T4?
2 providers list the RTX A6000 (Massed Compute and Vast.ai) and 1 list the T4 (Akash), across 2 and 1 region respectively. No single provider currently lists both models.
How much does 1,000 GPU-hours cost on the RTX A6000 vs the T4?
At the lowest rates listed today, 1,000 GPU-hours costs $500 on the RTX A6000 and $158 on the T4 — a difference of $343 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.
