NVIDIA RTX 4090 vs NVIDIA L40S
What each costs to rent by the hour across the providers we track — NVIDIA RTX 4090 on 22 providers, NVIDIA L40S on 44.
As of , the NVIDIA L40S has a median rate card of $1.42 per GPU-hour versus $0.48 for the NVIDIA RTX 4090 — $0.94 (66%) more for 100% more memory.
Side by side
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | NVIDIA L40S | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ada | Ada |
| VRAM | 24 GB | 48 GB |
| Form factor | — | PCIe |
| Median rate card, per GPU-hour | $0.48 | $1.42 |
| Cheapest listed rate | $0.16 Salad, community captured | $0.38 Lium, community, floor captured |
| Median per GB of VRAM, per hour | $0.020 | $0.030 |
| Providers listing it | 22 | 44 |
Providers that list both
| Provider | NVIDIA RTX 4090 | NVIDIA L40S | L40S vs RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|---|
 packet.ai | $0.39 Dedicated captured | $0.92 Dedicated captured | +$0.53 (+136%) |
 CloudRift | $0.39 captured | $0.63 captured | +$0.24 (+62%) |
 Hostinger | $0.42 from captured | $0.96 from captured | +$0.54 (+129%) |
 Sesterce | $0.44 from captured | $0.97 from captured | +$0.53 (+120%) |
 HexGrid | $0.45 Secure Cloud captured | $1.00 Secure Cloud captured | +$0.55 (+122%) |
 RunPod | $0.89 Secure Cloud captured | $1.09 Secure Cloud captured | +$0.20 (+22%) |
 GPU.ai | $0.89 from captured | $0.80 from captured | −$0.09 (−10%) |
 EmpirioLabs | $0.90 captured | $1.80 captured | +$0.90 (+100%) |
Medians are median rate cards — each provider once, at its cheapest on-demand rate, community capacity and marketplace floors out — the same figure as on each card's page; the cheapest listed rate may be spot or a community tier and is labelled as such. Compare providers directly on the overview, or see each GPU's full table: NVIDIA RTX 4090, NVIDIA L40S. On your own page: embed this comparison (/embed/gpus/rtx-4090-vs-l40s, an iframe, no script).
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