Side-by-side pricing across 8 marketplace listings. The L40 is 34.6% cheaper at median.
Side-by-side technical and market data. All prices in USD, listing-weighted median.
| Metric | A100 PCIe 40GB | L40 |
|---|---|---|
| Median Price (USD/hr) | $1.31 | $0.86 |
| Marketplaces Tracking | 3 | 5 |
| VRAM | 40 GB | 48 GB |
| FP16 TFLOPS (dense) | 312 | 181 |
| Category | Datacenter GPUs | |
See individual pages: A100 PCIe 40GB pricing · L40 pricing
Total rental cost at the listing-weighted median price for each GPU.
| Duration | A100 PCIe 40GB | L40 | You Save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | $1.31 | $0.86 | $0.455 |
| 1 day (24h) | $31.56 | $20.64 | $10.92 |
| 1 week (168h) | $220.89 | $144.48 | $76.44 |
| 1 month (730h) | $959.80 | $627.80 | $332.15 |
Over a typical month, choosing the L40 saves $332.15 compared to the A100 PCIe 40GB. That's a 34.6% cost reduction.
Decision logic based on workload type, derived from VRAM and FP16 compute heuristics.
48GB VRAM vs 40GB — fits larger models.
237.3 TFLOPS/$ vs 210.47 — better cost efficiency.
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