Side-by-side pricing across 23 marketplace listings. The L40S is 49.1% cheaper at median.
Side-by-side technical and market data. All prices in USD, listing-weighted median.
| Metric | A100 PCIe 80GB | L40S |
|---|---|---|
| Median Price (USD/hr) | $3.14 | $1.60 |
| Marketplaces Tracking | 9 | 14 |
| VRAM | 80 GB | 48 GB |
| FP16 TFLOPS (dense) | 312 | 366 |
| Category | Datacenter GPUs | |
See individual pages: A100 PCIe 80GB pricing · L40S pricing
Total rental cost at the listing-weighted median price for each GPU.
| Duration | A100 PCIe 80GB | L40S | You Save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | $3.14 | $1.60 | $1.543 |
| 1 day (24h) | $75.46 | $38.41 | $37.03 |
| 1 week (168h) | $528.21 | $268.90 | $259.22 |
| 1 month (730h) | $2,295.19 | $1,168.44 | $1,126.39 |
Over a typical month, choosing the L40S saves $1,126.39 compared to the A100 PCIe 80GB. That's a 49.1% cost reduction.
Decision logic based on workload type, derived from VRAM and FP16 compute heuristics.
80GB VRAM vs 48GB — fits larger models.
228.66 TFLOPS/$ vs 99.23 — better cost efficiency.
Marketplace partners carrying these GPUs, with their pricing for each side.
| Marketplace | A100 PCIe 80GB | L40S |
|---|---|---|
| Massed Compute | $1.35 | $0.88 |
| io.net | $1.39 | $0.89 |
| Packet.ai | $1.43 | $0.92 |
| RunPod | $1.39 | $0.99 |
| Thunder Compute | $1.79 | $1.49 |
| OVHcloud | $3.14 | $1.60 |
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