L4 vs L40S
The L4 delivers 3.0× the FP16 compute of the L4 while costing 2.4× less on average, making the L40S 25% more cost-efficient per TFLOP.
Spec Comparison
Spec
L4
L40S
Architecture
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace
VRAM
24 GB
48 GB
FP16 TFLOPS
122
362
Memory Bandwidth
300 GB/s
864 GB/s
MSRP
$2,500
$14,000
Used/Market Price
$1,800
$9,000
Live Pricing
Cost Efficiency
Metric
L4
L40S
$/TFLOP/hr
$0.0104
$0.0083
$/GB-VRAM/hr
$0.0526
$0.0626
Lower $/TFLOP and $/GB-VRAM is better. Based on median hourly pricing.
Provider Availability
Only on L4 (6)
L4 Cloud Pricing
374 instances| Provider | GPUs | VRAM | Region | Type | Price/hr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHEAPESTAWS | 1x | 24 GB | US-East | Spot | $0.188 | Rent |
| GCP | 1x | 24 GB | Asia-Pacific | Spot | $0.192 | Rent |
| RunPod | 1x | 24 GB | EUR-IS-1 | Spot | $0.220 | Rent |
| RunPod | 1x | 24 GB | US-MO-2 | Spot | $0.220 | Rent |
| GCP | 1x | 24 GB | Asia-Pacific | Spot | $0.229 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 24 GB | US-East | Spot | $0.250 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 24 GB | EU-West | Spot | $0.261 | Rent |
| GCP | 1x | 24 GB | Asia-Pacific | Spot | $0.265 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 24 GB | Asia-Pacific | Spot | $0.272 | Rent |
| AWS | 1x | 24 GB | Asia-Pacific | Spot | $0.274 | 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 |