NVIDIA RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA L40S
What each costs to rent by the hour across the providers we track — NVIDIA RTX 4090 on 18 providers, NVIDIA L40S on 40.
As of , the NVIDIA L40S has a median rate card of $1.40 per GPU-hour versus $0.49 for the NVIDIA RTX 4090 — $0.91 (65%) more for 100% more memory.
Side by side
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | NVIDIA L40S | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ada | Ada |
| VRAM | 24 GB | 48 GB |
| Form factor | — | PCIe |
| Median rate card, per GPU-hour | $0.49 | $1.40 |
| Cheapest listed rate | $0.16 Salad, community captured | $0.57 CloudRift, reserved captured |
| Median per GB of VRAM, per hour | $0.020 | $0.029 |
| Providers listing it | 18 | 40 |
Providers that list both
| Provider | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | NVIDIA L40S | L40S vs RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|---|
 packet.ai | $0.39 Dedicated captured | $0.92 Dedicated captured | +$0.53 (+136%) |
 CloudRift | $0.39 captured | $0.63 captured | +$0.24 (+62%) |
 Hostinger | $0.42 from captured | $0.96 from captured | +$0.54 (+129%) |
 Beam | $0.44 from captured | $0.76 from captured | +$0.32 (+73%) |
 Sesterce | $0.44 from captured | $0.97 from captured | +$0.53 (+120%) |
 HexGrid | $0.45 Secure Cloud captured | $1.00 Secure Cloud captured | +$0.55 (+122%) |
 EmpirioLabs | $0.65 captured | $1.80 captured | +$1.15 (+177%) |
 RunPod | $0.89 Secure Cloud captured | $1.09 Secure Cloud captured | +$0.20 (+22%) |
 GPU.ai | $0.89 from captured | $0.80 from captured | −$0.09 (−10%) |
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 RTX 4090, NVIDIA L40S. On your own page: embed this comparison (/embed/gpus/rtx-4090-vs-l40s, an iframe, no script).
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