NVIDIA L40 — what a GPU-hour costs
Listed rates, not availability. 10 rates read between and . · Renting for a year or more? Reserved quotes ↓
Not enough monthly history for the L40 to state a trend yet.
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Who is cheapest today, and what a month costs.
GPUsHours per monthRegionL40 by provider
One table per market, on-demand first; cheapest first within each.
| Provider · what is sold | $ / GPU-hour | 30 days | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Edgevana$1.14/node ÷ 2 | $0.57−40% vs median | stoppedlast confirmed · not in the figures | ||
 GPU.aifrom | $0.78−18% vs median | flat · 22 d | captured | Deploy ↗ |
 Thunder Compute | $0.79−17% vs median | flat | captured | Deploy ↗ |
 RunPodAPISecure Cloud · the API request | $0.82−14% vs median | flat | captured | Deploy ↗ |
 Massed Compute | $0.86−10% vs median | flat | captured | Deploy ↗ |
 QuantaCloudMidwest - us-midwest-2 | $0.94−2% vs median | flat · 18 d | captured | Deploy ↗ |
| QuantaCloudMidwest - us-midwest-1 | $0.94−2% vs median | flat · 17 d | captured | Deploy ↗ |
 Sestercefrom | $0.97+2% vs median | flat · 15 d | captured | Deploy ↗ |
 Hyperstack | $1.00+5% vs median | flat | captured | Deploy ↗ |
 Barrack AI | $1.19+25% vs median | flat · 10 d | captured | Deploy ↗ |
 CoreWeave$10.00/node ÷ 8 | $1.25+31% vs median | flat | captured | Deploy ↗ |
 EmpirioLabs | $1.50+57% vs median | flat · 27 d | captured | Deploy ↗ |
| Provider · what is sold | $ / GPU-hour | 30 days | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoreWeave$6.27/node ÷ 8 · North America · −$0.47 (−37%) vs its on-demand $1.25 | $0.78−18% vs median | flat | captured | Deploy ↗ |
| Hyperstack−$0.20 (−20%) vs its on-demand $1.00 | $0.80−16% vs median | flat | captured | Deploy ↗ |
| Provider · what is sold | $ / GPU-hour | 30 days | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU.aifrom | $0.69−28% vs median | flat · 22 d | captured | Deploy ↗ |
| RunPodAPICommunity Cloud · the API request | $0.69−28% vs median | flat | captured | Deploy ↗ |
| Provider · what is sold | $ / GPU-hour | 30 days | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyperstackfrommin. commitment commit | $0.70−27% vs median | flat | captured | Reserve ↗ |
Other cards today, median rate card per GPU-hour: H100 SXM $3.53 (Price Index) · B200 $7.50 · H200 $4.56 · B300 $8.99 · GB300 NVL72 $18.00 · MI325X $2.25 · RTX 4090 $0.49 · all cards
Renting the L40 for a year or more?
The cheapest committed L40 rate each provider publishes, by term. A commitment is paid whether the GPU runs or not.
| Term | Per GPU-hour | Provider |
|---|---|---|
| Other commitment commit | $0.70 read | Hyperstack |
Across every card, a 1-year rate runs a median −15% against the same provider’s on-demand rate (7 providers); a 3-year rate −30% (5 providers). Every committed rate, card by card.
Get quotes for the L40. A person at GPU Economy reads your request and passes it to up to three providers that list a rate for the card, the cheapest listed first; the quotes come from them, directly to you.
We may be paid a fee if a request becomes a contract; who receives it follows the listed rates, never a fee, and it changes no published rate or the Price Index (how, privacy).
As of , the cheapest listed rate for the NVIDIA L40 is $0.69 per GPU-hour on GPU.ai (community). The cheapest on-demand rate is $0.78 on GPU.ai (from). Across 10 providers, the median rate card — each provider’s cheapest on-demand rate, community capacity and marketplace floors out — is $0.95 per GPU-hour, and the middle half of those rate cards sits between $0.83 and $1.14. Between rate cards, on-demand rates for the same card run from $0.78 (GPU.ai) to $1.50 (EmpirioLabs), 1.9× apart across 10 providers. By market, the cheapest listed rates are $0.78 spot (CoreWeave), $0.69 on community capacity (GPU.ai, from), $0.78 on-demand (GPU.ai, from) and $0.70 reserved with no stated term (Hyperstack, from). With 48 GB of VRAM, that is $0.016 per GB of memory per hour at the cheapest on-demand rate and $0.020 at the median.
The two cheapest on-demand rate cards for the NVIDIA L40, side by side on every card they both list: GPU.ai vs Thunder Compute.
As of , one provider prices the NVIDIA L40 on-demand as a whole 8-GPU node: $10.00 per node-hour (CoreWeave, L40, $1.25 per GPU). 8 GPUs at the cheapest on-demand rate ($0.78 on GPU.ai, from) come to $6.24 an hour, where a provider rents 8 to one account and they need not share a unit. A unit price is what the provider quotes for the 8 GPUs together; whether it also rents one is not part of the quote.
How it is computed
What we measure
Publicly listed rental prices for 79 GPU models (NVIDIA and AMD) at 99 providers — 1165 current quotes across seven markets — and the retail price of the cards.
Where it comes from
Each provider's own pricing page or API; retail from reseller pages. Every figure links back to its source.
How it is normalised
Node prices are divided by GPU count, per-second rates multiplied out, a price listed in another currency shown as listed, beside its USD figure at the dated official rate (ECB; the Bank of Russia for RUB and VND). A reservation published as a total for its term is divided by the hours in that term, 8,760 per year.
What is modelled, not measured
One figure: cost per million output tokens, a listed rate divided by the throughput NVIDIA published for that card, published with the run that produced it in /token-cost.json, not on this page. Risk is not a model — it is read off the market a quote is from.
What we never do
Never estimate a price, never convert a currency silently, never publish a number a reader cannot verify on the linked page.
1165 quotes · 99 providers. Seven files under CC BY 4.0; history is stored append-only and never rewritten.
Weekly history since 2025, with a like-for-like table per provider: NVIDIA L40 price history.
Retail listings
No retail listings tracked for this card in the last 30 days.
Every rate on this page as data: /gpu/l40/prices.json — the same fields as prices.json, narrowed to this card. CC BY 4.0, no key, no rate limit. On your own page: embed this card’s cheapest rates (/embed/gpu/l40, an iframe, no script).
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