Side-by-side pricing across 12 marketplace listings. The L4 is 30.4% cheaper at median.
Side-by-side technical and market data. All prices in USD, listing-weighted median.
| Metric | A100 PCIe 40GB | L4 |
|---|---|---|
| Median Price (USD/hr) | $1.25 | $0.87 |
| Marketplaces Tracking | 5 | 7 |
| VRAM | 40 GB | 24 GB |
| FP16 TFLOPS (dense) | 312 | 121 |
| Category | Datacenter GPUs | |
See individual pages: A100 PCIe 40GB pricing · L4 pricing
Total rental cost at the listing-weighted median price for each GPU.
| Duration | A100 PCIe 40GB | L4 | You Save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | $1.25 | $0.87 | $0.38 |
| 1 day (24h) | $30.00 | $20.87 | $9.12 |
| 1 week (168h) | $210.00 | $146.09 | $63.84 |
| 1 month (730h) | $912.50 | $634.81 | $277.40 |
Over a typical month, choosing the L4 saves $277.40 compared to the A100 PCIe 40GB. That's a 30.4% cost reduction.
Decision logic based on workload type, derived from VRAM and FP16 compute heuristics.
40GB VRAM vs 24GB — fits larger models.
249.6 TFLOPS/$ vs 139.14 — better cost efficiency.
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