Side-by-side pricing across 32 marketplace listings. The L40S is 36% cheaper at median.
Side-by-side technical and market data. All prices in USD, listing-weighted median.
| Metric | H100 SXM | L40S |
|---|---|---|
| Median Price (USD/hr) | $2.50 | $1.60 |
| Marketplaces Tracking | 18 | 14 |
| VRAM | 80 GB | 48 GB |
| FP16 TFLOPS (dense) | 989 | 366 |
| Category | Datacenter GPUs | |
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Total rental cost at the listing-weighted median price for each GPU.
| Duration | H100 SXM | L40S | You Save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | $2.50 | $1.60 | $0.899 |
| 1 day (24h) | $60.00 | $38.41 | $21.58 |
| 1 week (168h) | $420.00 | $268.90 | $151.03 |
| 1 month (730h) | $1,825.00 | $1,168.44 | $656.27 |
Over a typical month, choosing the L40S saves $656.27 compared to the H100 SXM. That's a 36% cost reduction.
Decision logic based on workload type, derived from VRAM and FP16 compute heuristics.
80GB VRAM vs 48GB — fits larger models.
395.6 TFLOPS/$ vs 228.66 — better cost efficiency.
Marketplace partners carrying these GPUs, with their pricing for each side.
| Marketplace | H100 SXM | L40S |
|---|---|---|
| io.net | $2.09 | $0.89 |
| UpCloud | $1.89 | $1.27 |
| Hydra Host | $2.50 | $0.81 |
| RunPod | $2.99 | $0.99 |
| Massed Compute | $3.14 | $0.88 |
| Arkane Cloud | $2.99 | $1.39 |
| Verda | $3.25 | $1.37 |
| Cyfuture AI | $3.41 | $1.28 |
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