Ranking 01
Cheapest
Lowest true cost per GPU-hour, in stock or stock unknown, newest reading per provider
NVIDIA · Ada Lovelace · Datacenter · 23 providers list itNVIDIA L40 cloud prices
Rented today by 18 providers with a current on-demand offer, from $0.27 to $2.58 per GPU-hour, median $0.88. Every number below links to the page it was read from, with its read date.
Memory48GB
Bandwidth0.86TB/s
FP16 tensor181TFLOPS
FP3290.5TFLOPS
Power300W
Specifications: manufacturer figures.
Cheapest on-demand · read 00:32 UTC
$0.27/ GPU·h
Vast.aiTrust 782× L40 · 48 GB · Poland- Median
- $0.88 18 providers, once each
- 30 days
- −2.3%
- 90 days
- +1.0%
Prices by rental mode · On-demand · Spot · Reserved · ServerlessL40 prices today
Cheapest, median and spread among current offers. Medians count one floor per marketplace and need at least three offers.
Cheapest$0.27Vast.ai
Median$0.88n = 44
Highest$2.58among current offers
Current offers7918 providers · last 45 days
Ever listed16323 providers on file
Where today's on-demand offers sitone dot per eligible offer (44) · the pool behind the tiles · read Nov 2, 2026 00:32 UTC
Provider offer39Marketplace floor5Median$0.88Middle half$0.85 – $1.40
44 eligible offers from 18 providers, binned every $0.10: from $0.27 (Vast.ai) to $2.58 (Magalu Cloud). 21 further marketplace listings sit above their marketplace's floor and are not drawn (one floor per marketplace, as in the tiles). Hover a dot for the provider, price, configuration, region and read date; click it to open the provider.
On-demand price history · 34 daysdaily median across all providers · 6 provider lines from their 30-day series · read Nov 2, 2026
Median · all providers$0.88Providers
Today $0.8830 days -2.3%34 days +1.0%Low $0.86 · Oct 31High $1.62 · Sep 29
Daily median on-demand price per GPU-hour across all providers, 34 days to Nov 2, 2026. Provider lines: the provider's cheapest current on-demand offer, its listed price over the last 30 days (read Nov 2, 2026). Drag to zoom, double-click to reset.
Today's podium · on-demand · readings of the last 45 days · reference Nov 2, 2026 00:32 UTCWho rents the L40 best today
Cheapest true cost, best throughput per dollar, highest Trust Score. One provider per step, ten places, every row dated.
Ranking 02
Best value
Most throughput per dollar for LLM inference · Trust ≥ 60 first, then provisional · estimated
Runpod1× · 00:03 UTCValue 63$0.69
Thunder Compute1× · 00:19 UTCValue 56$0.79- 4
Massed Compute1× · 00:32 UTCValue 52$0.86 - 5
Sesterce Cloud1× · USValue 45$0.97
Ranking 03
Most trusted
Highest Trust Score among providers with an eligible offer · unscored providers follow, cheapest first
CoreWeave8× · 00:32 UTCTrust 85$1.25
Oblivus8× · Oblivus data centresTrust 82$1.05- 4
Hyperstack1× · CANADA-1: 25+Trust 81$1.00 - 5Vast.ai2× · PolandTrust 78$0.27
44 eligible on-demand offers from 18 providers · median $0.88 (n = 44) · not ranked: 4 unavailable, 13 resold, 1 older readings · readings of the last 45 days · reference Nov 2, 2026 · 00:32 UTCRankings are never sponsored. How we rank →
All offers · 192 readings on file · 23 providersEvery L40 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vast.aiTrust 78marketplace floor | 2× L4042.666666666666664 vCPU · 335.7 GB RAM · 396.7 GB disk | Poland | In stock | $0.27 | $0.27 | 00:03 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Vast.aiTrust 78 | 1× L4021.333333333333332 vCPU · 167.8 GB RAM · 198.3 GB disk | Poland | In stock | $0.27 | $0.27 | 00:03 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Vast.aiTrust 78 | 1× L4032 vCPU · 125.5 GB RAM · 393.7 GB disk | Vietnam | In stock | $0.36 | $0.36 | 00:01 UTCfresh | Receipt |
 io.netTrust 42marketplace floor | 4× L4050 vCPU · 288 GB RAM · 2,500 GB disk | US | In stock | $0.66 | $0.66 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| io.netTrust 42 | 2× L4026 vCPU · 144 GB RAM · 1,250 GB disk | US | In stock | $0.66 | $0.66 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| io.netTrust 42 | 1× L4014 vCPU · 72 GB RAM · 625 GB disk | US | In stock | $0.66 | $0.66 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RunpodTrust 95 | 1× L40 | Runpod Community Cloud hosts | In stock | $0.69 | $0.69 | 00:03 UTCfresh | Receipt |
 GPURento | 1× L40 | Germany · France | Stock unknown | $0.69 | $0.69 | 00:25 UTCfresh | Receipt |
 GPU.ai | 1× L4014 vCPU · 72 GB RAM · 625 GB disk | US | In stock | $0.78 | $0.78 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| GPU.ai | 2× L4026 vCPU · 144 GB RAM · 1,250 GB disk | US | In stock | $0.78 | $0.78 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| GPU.ai | 4× L4050 vCPU · 288 GB RAM · 2,500 GB disk | US | In stock | $0.78 | $0.78 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Thunder ComputeTrust 75 | 1× L40 | — | In stock | $0.79 | $0.79 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Thunder ComputeTrust 75 | 2× L40 | — | In stock | $0.79 | $0.79 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Vast.aiTrust 78 | 1× L4032 vCPU · 126 GB RAM · 220 GB disk | Finland | In stock | $0.79 | $0.79 | 00:02 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| GPU.ai | 2× L4060 vCPU · 116 GB RAM · 100 GB disk | Canada | In stock | $0.80 | $0.80 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| GPU.ai | 1× L4028 vCPU · 58 GB RAM · 100 GB disk | Canada | In stock | $0.80 | $0.80 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Vast.aiTrust 78 | 3× L40192 vCPU · 755.2 GB RAM · 2,504 GB disk | Poland | In stock | $0.80 | $0.80 | 00:02 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RunpodTrust 95 | 1× L40 | Runpod Secure Cloud datacenters | Unavailable | $0.82 | $0.82 | 00:03 UTCfresh | Receipt |
 Prime IntellectTrust 46marketplace floor | L40 PCIE | US | Stock unknown | $0.86 | $0.86 | Sep 29, 2026older reading | Receipt |
| Massed ComputeTrust 74 | 1× L40 | — | Stock unknown | $0.86 | $0.86 | 00:32 UTCfresh | Receipt |
 AtmosCompute | 1× L408 vCPU | — | In stock | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:22 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| 1× L4028 vCPU · 58 GB RAM · 825 GB disk | CANADA-1 | In stock | $0.89 | $0.89 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt | |
 Omega Gradientresold from Sesterce Cloud | 1× L4014 vCPU · 72 GB RAM · 625 GB disk | US | In stock | $0.93 | $0.93 | 00:19 UTCfresh | Receipt |
 GPUNETresold from other clouds (the upstream is named in each offer) | 1× L4014 vCPU · 72 GB RAM · 625 GB disk | US | In stock | $0.93 | $0.93 | 00:24 UTCfresh | Receipt |
 QuantaCloud | 4× L4050 vCPU · 288 GB RAM · 2,500 GB disk | US | In stock | $0.94 | $0.94 | 00:23 UTCfresh | Receipt |
79 fresh offers · the 25 cheapest shown here, all of them in the comparison tool · 84 older readings of the same provider replaced by a newer one · prices per GPU-hour · true cost includes the add-ons the provider publishesOpen in the comparison tool →
Value · what the hour buysPrice 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 · hour48 GB | $0.006 | $0.018 |
| per PFLOP FP16 · hour181 TFLOPS | $1.480 | $4.882 |
| per TB/s of bandwidth · hour0.86 TB/s | $0.310 | $1.023 |
| Model | Needs | Smallest config | $ / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| all MiniLM L6 v2Sentence Transformers | 1 GBFP8 | 1× L40at Vast.ai | $196 |
| paraphrase multilingual MiniLM L12 v2Sentence Transformers | 1 GBFP8 | 1× L40at Vast.ai | $196 |
| bge-m3BAAI | 1 GBFP8 | 1× L40at Vast.ai | $196 |
| Qwen3 0.6BQwen | 1 GBFP8 | 1× L40at Vast.ai | $196 |
| all-mpnet-base-v2Sentence Transformers | 1 GBFP8 | 1× L40at Vast.ai | $196 |
| bge-reranker-v2-m3BAAI | 1 GBFP8 | 1× L40at Vast.ai | $196 |
Monthly = 730 hours at the cheapest current on-demand price for that GPU count · models sized at FP8 when available, weights plus runtime overheadSize any model →
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Questions about renting the L40
How much does the L40 cost per hour?
Today the L40 rents from $0.27 per GPU-hour on-demand, with a median of $0.88 across 18 providers, each counted once at its cheapest current offer (44 current offers in all, readings of the last 45 days). Prices depend on the provider, the number of GPUs in the machine, the region and whether you rent on-demand, spot or reserved; true cost adds the mandatory add-ons each provider publishes.
Which cloud providers offer the L40?
21 providers have a current L40 offer in stock. Cheapest first: Vast Ai ($0.27), Io Net ($0.66), Runpod ($0.69), Gpurento ($0.69), Gpu Ai ($0.78), Thunder Compute ($0.79). Older readings from other providers stay listed on this page, in grey, and are never ranked.
How much memory does the L40 have?
48 GB of memory at 0.86 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 L40 cheapest right now?
The lowest true cost among eligible offers is $0.27 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai for a 2-GPU machine in Poland, 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.
Is the L40 cheaper on spot or reserved?
Spot (interruptible) capacity starts at $0.33 per GPU-hour; reserved terms start at $0.70. Spot suits jobs that checkpoint; reserved suits machines that run all month.