Side-by-side pricing across 10 marketplace listings. The L40 is 33.6% 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) | $1.25 | $0.83 |
| Marketplaces Tracking | 5 | 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 | $1.25 | $0.83 | $0.42 |
| 1 day (24h) | $30.00 | $19.92 | $10.08 |
| 1 week (168h) | $210.00 | $139.44 | $70.56 |
| 1 month (730h) | $912.50 | $605.90 | $306.60 |
Over a typical month, choosing the L40 saves $306.60 compared to the A100 PCIe 40GB. That's a 33.6% cost reduction.
Decision logic based on workload type, derived from VRAM and FP16 compute heuristics.
48GB VRAM vs 40GB — fits larger models.
249.6 TFLOPS/$ vs 218.07 — better cost efficiency.
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