Side-by-side pricing across 18 marketplace listings. The L40 is 36% cheaper at median.
Side-by-side technical and market data. All prices in USD, AIMC reference price (median across marketplaces).
| Metric | A100 PCIe 80GB | L40 |
|---|---|---|
| Median Price (USD/hr) | $1.39 | $0.89 |
| Marketplaces Tracking | 11 | 7 |
| VRAM | 80 GB | 48 GB |
| FP16 TFLOPS (dense) | 312 | 181 |
| Category | Datacenter GPUs | |
See individual pages: A100 PCIe 80GB pricing · L40 pricing
Total rental cost at the AIMC reference price for each GPU.
| Duration | A100 PCIe 80GB | L40 | You Save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | $1.39 | $0.89 | $0.5 |
| 1 day (24h) | $33.36 | $21.36 | $12.00 |
| 1 week (168h) | $233.52 | $149.52 | $84.00 |
| 1 month (730h) | $1,014.70 | $649.70 | $365.00 |
Over a typical month, choosing the L40 saves $365.00 compared to the A100 PCIe 80GB. That's a 36% cost reduction.
Decision logic based on workload type, derived from VRAM and FP16 compute heuristics.
80GB VRAM vs 48GB — fits larger models.
224.46 TFLOPS/$ vs 203.37 — better cost efficiency.
Marketplace partners carrying these GPUs, with their pricing for each side.
| Marketplace | A100 PCIe 80GB | L40 |
|---|---|---|
| Thunder Compute | $1.09 | $0.79 |
| DataOorts | $1.24 | $0.89 |
| Massed Compute | $1.35 | $0.86 |
| Hyperstack | $1.38 | $1.00 |
| Oblivus | $1.52 | $1.05 |
| RunPod | $1.79 | $0.82 |
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