NVIDIA A16 cloud prices
Rented today on demand by 1 provider, at $0.47 per GPU-hour: too few providers for a market median. Every number below links to the page it was read from, with its read date.
Specifications: manufacturer figures.
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A16 prices today
Cheapest, median and spread among current offers. Medians count one floor per marketplace and need at least three offers.
Today's podium · on-demand · readings of the last 45 days · reference Nov 2, 2026 00:32 UTCWho rents the A16 best today
Cheapest true cost, best throughput per dollar, highest Trust Score. One provider per step, ten places, every row dated.
Not ranked today: fewer than 3 providers hold an eligible on-demand offer for the A16 in the last 45 days. Every offer is listed below.
Every A16 offer, with its receipt
Current offers ranked by true cost, each with its read date. Older readings stay listed below, in grey, and never enter a ranking.
| Provider | Configuration | Region | Stock | List | True cost | Read | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16× A1696 vCPU · 960 GB RAM · 1,700 GB disk | no location can deploy it right now | Unavailable | $0.47 | $0.47 | 00:03 UTCfresh | Receipt | |
| 1× A166 vCPU · 60 GB RAM · 350 GB disk | Germany +5 | In stock | $0.47 | $0.47 | 00:03 UTCfresh | Receipt | |
| 2× A1612 vCPU · 120 GB RAM · 700 GB disk | Germany +4 | In stock | $0.47 | $0.47 | 00:03 UTCfresh | Receipt | |
| 1× A16 | Lithuania | Unavailable | $0.52 | $0.52 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt | |
| 8× A1648 vCPU · 496 GB RAM · 1,500 GB disk | Germany +5 | Unavailable | $0.54 | $0.54 | 00:24 UTCfresh | Receipt | |
| 4× A1624 vCPU · 256 GB RAM · 1,200 GB disk | Germany +5 | Unavailable | $0.54 | $0.54 | 00:24 UTCfresh | Receipt | |
| 2× A1612 vCPU · 128 GB RAM · 700 GB disk | Germany +5 | Unavailable | $0.54 | $0.54 | 00:24 UTCfresh | Receipt | |
| 1× A166 vCPU · 64 GB RAM · 350 GB disk | Germany +5 | Unavailable | $0.54 | $0.54 | 00:24 UTCfresh | Receipt | |
| 16× A1696 vCPU · 960 GB RAM · 1,700 GB disk | Germany +5 | Unavailable | $0.60 | $0.60 | 00:24 UTCfresh | Receipt |
Price per unit, and what fits
The same hour, divided by what the card gives you; then the smallest real configuration for the most downloaded open models.
| Unit | At the cheapest | At the median |
|---|---|---|
| per GB of VRAM · hour16 GB | $0.029 | — |
| per TB/s of bandwidth · hour0.20 TB/s | $2.355 | — |
| Model | Needs | Smallest config | $ / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| all MiniLM L6 v2Sentence Transformers | 1 GBFP8 | 1× A16at Vultr | $344 |
| paraphrase multilingual MiniLM L12 v2Sentence Transformers | 1 GBFP8 | 1× A16at Vultr | $344 |
| bge-m3BAAI | 1 GBFP8 | 1× A16at Vultr | $344 |
| Qwen3 0.6BQwen | 1 GBFP8 | 1× A16at Vultr | $344 |
| all-mpnet-base-v2Sentence Transformers | 1 GBFP8 | 1× A16at Vultr | $344 |
| bge-reranker-v2-m3BAAI | 1 GBFP8 | 1× A16at Vultr | $344 |
Questions about renting the A16
Which cloud providers offer the A16?
1 providers have a current A16 offer in stock. Cheapest first: Vultr ($0.47). Older readings from other providers stay listed on this page, in grey, and are never ranked.
How much memory does the A16 have?
16 GB of memory at 0.20 TB/s. At FP8 that fits all MiniLM L6 v2 (1 GB), paraphrase multilingual MiniLM L12 v2 (1 GB), bge-m3 (1 GB), Qwen3 0.6B (1 GB), all-mpnet-base-v2 (1 GB) on a single card; larger models need two to eight GPUs or a different card.
Where is the A16 cheapest right now?
The lowest true cost among eligible offers is $0.47 per GPU-hour at Vultr for a 1-GPU machine in Germany +5, read within the ranking window. Offers marked unavailable, older than 45 days, superseded by a newer reading, resold or outside the outlier band are listed but not ranked.
