A100 vs L40S
The A100 delivers 1.2× the FP16 compute of the A100 while costing 2.8× more on average, making the L40S 221% more cost-efficient per TFLOP.
Spec Comparison
Spec
A100
L40S
Architecture
Ampere
Ada Lovelace
VRAM
80 GB
48 GB
FP16 TFLOPS
312
362
Memory Bandwidth
2,000 GB/s
864 GB/s
MSRP
$10,000
$14,000
Used/Market Price
$7,000
$9,000
Live Pricing
Cost Efficiency
Metric
A100
L40S
$/TFLOP/hr
$0.0266
$0.0083
$/GB-VRAM/hr
$0.1038
$0.0626
Lower $/TFLOP and $/GB-VRAM is better. Based on median hourly pricing.
Provider Availability
Only on A100 (8)
A100 Cloud Pricing
363 instances| Provider | GPUs | VRAM | Region | Type | Price/hr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHEAPESTVast.ai | 1x | 40 GB | EU-Central | Spot | $0.0800 | Rent |
| Vast.ai | 1x | 40 GB | EU-Central | On-Demand | $0.0934 | Rent |
| Vultr | 1x | 4 GB | ewr | On-Demand | $0.123 | Rent |
| Vultr | 1x | 4 GB | fra | On-Demand | $0.123 | Rent |
| Vultr | 1x | 4 GB | sjc | On-Demand | $0.123 | Rent |
| Vultr | 1x | 4 GB | nrt | On-Demand | $0.123 | Rent |
| Vultr | 1x | 8 GB | ewr | On-Demand | $0.247 | Rent |
| Vultr | 1x | 8 GB | nrt | On-Demand | $0.247 | Rent |
| Vultr | 1x | 8 GB | blr | On-Demand | $0.247 | Rent |
| Verda | 1x | 40 GB | EU-Central | Spot | $0.252 | Rent |
L40S Cloud Pricing
180 instances| Provider | GPUs | VRAM | Region | Type | Price/hr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHEAPESTVerda | 1x | 48 GB | EU-Central | Spot | $0.320 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | US-East | Spot | $0.446 | Rent |
| Crusoe | 1x | 48 GB | US-West | Spot | $0.500 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | US-East | Spot | $0.532 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | Asia-Pacific | Spot | $0.560 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | US-East | Spot | $0.587 | Rent |
| Verda | 2x | 96 GB | EU-Central | Spot | $0.640 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | Asia-Pacific | Spot | $0.669 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | eu-north-1 | Spot | $0.723 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 44.7 GB | eu-north-1 | Spot | $0.723 | Rent |