Side-by-side pricing across 27 marketplace listings. The L40S is 72.7% cheaper at median.
Side-by-side technical and market data. All prices in USD, AIMC reference price (median across marketplaces).
| Metric | H200 SXM | L40S |
|---|---|---|
| Median Price (USD/hr) | $4.65 | $1.27 |
| Marketplaces Tracking | 14 | 13 |
| VRAM | 141 GB | 48 GB |
| FP16 TFLOPS (dense) | 989 | 366 |
| Category | Datacenter GPUs | |
See individual pages: H200 SXM pricing · L40S pricing
Total rental cost at the AIMC reference price for each GPU.
| Duration | H200 SXM | L40S | You Save |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 hour | $4.65 | $1.27 | $3.382 |
| 1 day (24h) | $111.64 | $30.48 | $81.17 |
| 1 week (168h) | $781.47 | $213.36 | $568.18 |
| 1 month (730h) | $3,395.67 | $927.10 | $2,468.86 |
Over a typical month, choosing the L40S saves $2,468.86 compared to the H200 SXM. That's a 72.7% cost reduction.
Decision logic based on workload type, derived from VRAM and FP16 compute heuristics.
141GB VRAM vs 48GB — fits larger models.
288.19 TFLOPS/$ vs 212.62 — better cost efficiency.
Marketplace partners carrying these GPUs, with their pricing for each side.
| Marketplace | H200 SXM | L40S |
|---|---|---|
| io.net | $2.99 | $0.89 |
| Hydra Host | $3.10 | $0.95 |
| RunPod | $5.29 | $1.09 |
| Verda | $5.38 | $1.69 |
| Hugging Face | $5.00 | $2.08 |
| OVHcloud | $5.87 | $1.57 |
| Arkane Cloud | $5.99 | $1.79 |
| Vast.ai | $24.01 | $0.86 |
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