Rent an NVIDIA L40 from $0.09 per GPU-hour
NVIDIA L40 price per hour: $0.09 per GPU-hour on spot, $0.19 on-demand, $0.09 reserved, billed by the minute. The rendering-oriented sibling of the L40S: the same 48 GB, a lower power envelope, and a price that suits long-running visualisation and batch image jobs.
Billed per started minute. 384 GB of GPU memory on a 8× node. Persistent storage $0.08 per GB-month. No egress fees.
- GPU memory
- 48GBGDDR6
- Bandwidth
- 864GB/sSets token throughput on inference
- Node sizes
- 1× · 2× · 4× · 8×Same price per GPU at every size
- Reclaim rate
- <5%Spot instances reclaimed over 30 days
What you get with each L40 node.
| Node | GPU memory | vCPU | RAM | Local NVMe | Spot | On-demand | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1× L40 | 48 GB | 12 | 96 GB | 1 TB | $0.09/h | $0.19/h | Configure |
| 2× L40 | 96 GB | 24 | 192 GB | 2 TB | $0.18/h | $0.38/h | Configure |
| 4× L40 | 192 GB | 48 | 384 GB | 4 TB | $0.36/h | $0.76/h | Configure |
| 8× L40 | 384 GB | 96 | 768 GB | 8 TB | $0.72/h | $1.52/h | Configure |
GPU-to-GPU link: PCIe Gen4 x16 64 GB/s; NVLink: No. Local NVMe is scratch space wiped when the instance ends; keep anything you need on a persistent disk.
32 L40 GPUs free right now.
Straight from the capacity pool the console books against. Prices are identical in every region — pick the one closest to your data.
A region with zero free GPUs still accepts reserved capacity requests — we hold hardware for a term rather than sell what is already taken.
What fits in 48 GB — and what it costs per hour.
Weights need about 2 GB per billion parameters at FP16 / BF16, 1 GB per billion parameters at FP8, 0.5 GB per billion parameters at INT4. We keep 20% of the memory free for activations, the KV cache and the CUDA context, then take the smallest node that still fits.
| Open model | Parameters | FP16 / BF16node · spot price | FP8node · spot price | INT4node · spot price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 8BThe default small model for fine-tuning and agents | 8B | 1× $0.09/h | 1× $0.09/h | 1× $0.09/h |
| Qwen3 14BMid-size dense Qwen3 | 14.8B | 1× $0.09/h | 1× $0.09/h | 1× $0.09/h |
| gpt-oss-20bSmall open-weight reasoning model for local and edge serving | 21B | 2× $0.18/h | 1× $0.09/h | 1× $0.09/h |
| Gemma 4 31BLargest dense Gemma 4, multimodal, 256K context | 31.3B | 2× $0.18/h | 1× $0.09/h | 1× $0.09/h |
| Qwen3.6 35B A3BSmall hybrid-attention mixture of experts | 35B | 2× $0.18/h | 1× $0.09/h | 1× $0.09/h |
| Llama 3.3 70BThe common 70B baseline (same size and layout as Llama 3.1 70B) | 70.6B | 4× $0.36/h | 2× $0.18/h | 1× $0.09/h |
| gpt-oss-120bOpen-weight reasoning model, mixture of experts, tool use | 117B | 8× $0.72/h | 4× $0.36/h | 2× $0.18/h |
| Qwen3 235B A22BFlagship Qwen3 mixture of experts, the 2507 checkpoint | 235B | over 8× | 8× $0.72/h | 4× $0.36/h |
| DeepSeek R1Reasoning model, the R1-0528 checkpoint | 671B | over 8× | over 8× | over 8× |
Each model links to its full sizing: KV cache by context length and every GPU that runs it — GPU requirements for 64 open models.
Real usage depends on context length, batch size and the serving engine: a long context can add tens of gigabytes of KV cache. Treat the table as the floor, not the ceiling — and if a job is close to the limit, take the next node size or quantise one step further.
What a dollar buys on an L40.
Ranked 3 of 21 data-center models in this catalogue on cost per gigabyte of GPU memory.
GPU memory you get for $1.00 of spot time, per hour.
Bandwidth decides token throughput far more often than raw FLOPS.
Spot price divided by published FP16 tensor throughput.
One GPU on spot, billed per minute, storage excluded.
Against the rest of the market
22 providers · September 2026- Median on-demand elsewhere
- $0.79Our on-demand is 76% below it
- Cheapest on-demand seen
- $0.34Our on-demand $0.19 is 44% below it
- Cheapest spot seen
- $0.40Our spot $0.09 is 78% below it
- 24 hours on one GPU
- $2.16 on spot$4.56 on-demand · $8.16 at the cheapest rate found elsewhere
Index built from published prices for the same GPU across 102 providers (provider pricing pages and public price indexes), September 2026. How the guarantee is enforced.
L40 price per hour at 20 other providers.
The lowest published on-demand rate we recorded at each provider, cheapest first: $0.34 to $1.50 per GPU-hour, with a median of $0.84. Every row links to its source; a provider without a published price is left out rather than estimated.
| # | Provider | On-demandper GPU-hour | Spot | 730 h | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | OnlineGPUthis site · how the price is set | $0.19 | $0.09 | $138.70 | pricing page |
| 1 | GPU Outletrecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.34 | not published | $248.20 | computeprices.com |
| 2 | Liumrecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.36 | not published | $262.80 | lium.io |
| 3 | Vast.airecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.46 | $0.40 | $335.80 | getdeploying.com |
| 4 | IO.NETrecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.66 | not published | $482.53 | computeprices.com |
| 5 | GPU.airecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.69 | not published | $503.70 | getdeploying.com |
| 6 | RunPodrecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.69 | not published | $503.70 | runpod.io |
| 7 | Hyperstackrecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.70 | $0.80 | $511.00 | hyperstack.cloud |
| 8 | Massed Computerecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.77 | $0.78 | $563.56 | vm.massedcompute.com |
| 9 | CoreWeaverecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.78 | $0.78 | $572.32 | coreweave.com |
| 10 | Thunder Computerecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.79 | not published | $576.70 | getdeploying.com |
| 11 | Shadeformrecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.88 | not published | $642.40 | computeprices.com |
| 12 | Omega Gradientrecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.93 | not published | $678.90 | computeprices.com |
| 13 | TensorDockrecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.95 | not published | $693.50 | tensordock.com |
| 14 | Sestercerecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.97 | not published | $706.64 | getdeploying.com |
| 15 | Runcraterecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $0.97 | not published | $708.10 | getdeploying.com |
Show the other 5 providers
| # | Provider | On-demandper GPU-hour | Spot | 730 h | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Oblivusrecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $1.05 | not published | $766.50 | getdeploying.com |
| 17 | Spheronrecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $1.06 | $0.89 | $773.80 | getdeploying.com |
| 18 | AtmosComputerecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $1.13 | not published | $824.90 | computeprices.com |
| 19 | Together AIrecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $1.49 | not published | $1,087.70 | computeprices.com |
| 20 | EmpirioLabs AIrecorded 15 Sep 2026 | $1.50 | not published | $1,095.00 | getdeploying.com |
Recorded 15 September 2026 from published price pages (provider pricing pages and public price indexes), compute only: storage, egress and taxes excluded. Prices move — if a row is out of date, send us the link and it is corrected.
What people run on an L40.
Fine-tuning with LoRA and QLoRA
Comfortable for parameter-efficient training on 13B–34B models without sharding.
Inference servers
Holds 30B-class models quantised, or several smaller models side by side.
Anything that can checkpoint
On the spot tier this model is 53% below its own on-demand price, with a 2-minute notice before a reclaim.
NVIDIA L40, as published by NVIDIA.
Taken from the vendor datasheet. Where a figure is not published, the row is absent rather than estimated.
- Vendor
- NVIDIA
- Architecture
- Ada Lovelace (2022)
- Segment
- Datacenter
- Memory
- 48 GB GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 864 GB/s
- FP16 / BF16 tensor
- 181 TFLOPS
- FP8 tensor
- 362 TFLOPS
- FP32
- 91 TFLOPS
- CUDA cores
- 18,176
- Board power
- 300 W
- Form factor
- PCIe dual-slot
- Interconnect
- PCIe Gen4 x16 64 GB/s; NVLink: No
- Multi-instance (MIG)
- Not available
- 8-bit float (FP8)
- Supported by the architecture
Source: www.nvidia.com · verified against the vendor document
Software that runs on it
8 templatesPre-built environments, pulled on the node before you land on it. Or bring any OCI image from a public or private registry.
On the spot tier
<5% reclaimed · 30 d- 2 minutes of notice on the metadata endpoint, a webhook and the console
- The instance is stopped, not deleted — disk and IP stay attached
- Auto-relaunch on the next free L40, or switch the same disk to on-demand
- You save $2.40 a day per GPU against on-demand
If the L40 is not the right fit.
Same memory or more, 33% cheaper on spot
A100 PCIe 80GB 80 GB HBM2e · Ampere $0.09/h spotNext step up in memory: 80 GB instead of 48 GB
L40S 48 GB GDDR6 · Ada Lovelace $0.15/h spotSame Ada Lovelace generation
L4 24 GB GDDR6 · Ada Lovelace $0.05/h spotSame Ada Lovelace generation
Or put two of them side by side: L40 vs A40 · L40 vs A100 PCIe · L40 vs L40S
L40 — the questions that come up
How much does an L40 cost per hour?
Spot is $0.09 per GPU-hour and on-demand is $0.19, both billed per minute — every started minute costs the hourly price divided by 60, so $0.0015 on spot. Reserved capacity is $0.09 per GPU-hour on a monthly commitment. Storage and egress are not included in that rate: persistent disks are $0.08 per GB-month and there are no egress fees.
How many GPUs can I put in one instance?
Node sizes are 1×, 2×, 4×, 8× — up to 8 L40 GPUs in a single virtual machine, with CPU, RAM and local NVMe scaled with the GPU count. The price per GPU is identical at every node size.
Can it run a 70B model?
Yes. At FP8, a 70B model needs about 70 GB for the weights, so it fits on 2× L40 ($0.18 per hour on spot) with roughly 20% of the memory left for activations and the KV cache.
Which regions have it?
Available now in US East (Virginia), EU Central (Frankfurt). Prices are identical in every region; pick the one closest to your data.
How often is a spot L40 reclaimed?
Over the trailing 30 days, <5% of spot instances on this model were reclaimed. You get a 2-minute notice on the metadata endpoint, through a webhook and in the console; the instance is then stopped, never deleted, and the persistent disk stays attached.
Anything else about this model? Ask an engineer — the same people run the nodes. See also all prices, how we compare with 41 other providers and how to pay in crypto.
An L40 for $0.09 an hour, running in under 60 seconds.
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Billed per minute from the moment the instance is reachable. Minimum credit $30, no subscription. 32 L40 GPUs available right now.