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GPUs / NVIDIA L40 · GDDR6 ECC · 48 GB

NVIDIA L40 rental price

A NVIDIA L40 costs $0.83 per GPU-hour today, the median of 5 providers. The cheapest tracked listing is $0.35, the most expensive $1.35 — a 3.9× difference.

On-demand
$0.83
Spot
$0.76
Spread
3.9×
$/petaFLOP-hr
$4.57
Providers
5
Updated 2026-09-25 22:18 UTC

Price history

$0.00$0.38$0.75$1.13$1.50Aug 9Aug 17Aug 25Sep 2Sep 10Sep 18$0.69$0.83$0.76

Each point is the daily cross-provider median for this SKU and pricing type (per-provider medians first, so no marketplace’s volume dominates). Gaps are gaps — we don’t interpolate missing data.

At today’s median, one NVIDIA L40 works out to $4.57 per petaFLOP-hour (BF16, dense — 181 TFLOPS per the vendor datasheet, sparsity excluded). Price per unit of throughput is how generations actually compare — a cheaper card with fewer FLOPS can cost more per unit of work.

NVIDIA L40 and NVIDIA L40S are tracked as separate SKUs — different interconnect, different performance, different market. Comparing them in one number would be wrong, so we don’t.

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