GPU Economy

NVIDIA RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA L40S

What each costs to rent by the hour across the providers we track — NVIDIA RTX 4090 on 2 providers,NVIDIA L40S on 11.

As of , the NVIDIA L40S rents for a median $1.61 per GPU-hour on-demand versus $0.34 for the NVIDIA RTX 4090 — $1.27 (79%) more for 100% more memory.

Side by side

NVIDIA RTX 4090NVIDIA L40S
ArchitectureAdaAda
VRAM24 GB48 GB
Form factorPCIe
Median on-demand, per GPU-hour$0.34$1.61
Cheapest listed rate$0.31
Vast.ai, on-demand, floor
$0.69
DataCrunch, spot
Median per GB of VRAM, per hour$0.014$0.034
Providers listing it211

Providers that list both

On-demand, per GPU-hour; each price links to the provider's pricing page.
ProviderNVIDIA RTX 4090NVIDIA L40SPremium
Vast.ai$0.31$0.80158%
RunPod$0.34
Community Cloud
$0.79
Community Cloud
132%

Medians are across on-demand rates only; 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.

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