NVIDIA L40S vs NVIDIA RTX A6000
What each costs to rent by the hour across the providers we track — NVIDIA L40S on 40 providers, NVIDIA RTX A6000 on 18.
As of , the NVIDIA L40S has a median rate card of $1.40 per GPU-hour versus $0.61 for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 — $0.79 (56%) more.
Side by side
| NVIDIA L40S | NVIDIA RTX A6000 | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ada | Ampere |
| VRAM | 48 GB | 48 GB |
| Form factor | PCIe | PCIe |
| Median rate card, per GPU-hour | $1.40 | $0.61 |
| Cheapest listed rate | $0.57 CloudRift, reserved captured | $0.33 RunPod, community captured |
| Median per GB of VRAM, per hour | $0.029 | $0.013 |
| Providers listing it | 40 | 18 |
Providers that list both
| Provider | NVIDIA L40S | NVIDIA RTX A6000 | RTX A6000 vs L40S |
|---|---|---|---|
 Beam | $0.76 from captured | $0.54 from captured | −$0.22 (−29%) |
 GPU.ai | $0.80 from captured | $0.40 from captured | −$0.40 (−50%) |
 Seeweb | $0.95 captured | $0.83 captured | −$0.12 (−13%) |
 Massed Compute | $0.97 captured | $0.55 captured | −$0.42 (−43%) |
 Sesterce | $0.97 from captured | $0.63 from captured | −$0.34 (−36%) |
 HexGrid | $1.00 Secure Cloud captured | $0.55 Secure Cloud captured | −$0.45 (−45%) |
 RunPod | $1.09 Secure Cloud captured | $0.59 Secure Cloud captured | −$0.50 (−46%) |
 QuantaCloud | $1.09 Midwest - us-midwest-1 captured | $0.48 Midwest - us-midwest-1 captured | −$0.61 (−56%) |
 Koyeb | $1.20 captured | $0.75 captured | −$0.45 (−37%) |
 EmpirioLabs | $1.80 captured | $1.00 captured | −$0.80 (−44%) |
 Verda | $1.81 captured | $0.79 captured | −$1.02 (−56%) |
Medians are median rate cards — each provider once, at its cheapest on-demand rate, community capacity and marketplace floors out — the same figure as on each card's page; the cheapest listed rate may be spot or a community tier and is labelled as such. Compare providers directly on the overview, or see each GPU's full table: NVIDIA L40S, NVIDIA RTX A6000. On your own page: embed this comparison (/embed/gpus/l40s-vs-rtx-a6000, an iframe, no script).
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