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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

L4
Cheapest
$0.188/hr
Median
$1.26/hr
Average
$2.50/hr
Providers
9
Instances
374
L40S
Cheapest
$0.320/hr
Median
$3.00/hr
Average
$8.92/hr
Providers
19
Instances
180

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

L4 Cloud Pricing

374 instances
ProviderGPUsVRAMRegionTypePrice/hr
CHEAPESTAWS1x24 GBUS-EastSpot$0.188Rent
GCP1x24 GBAsia-PacificSpot$0.192Rent
RunPod1x24 GBEUR-IS-1Spot$0.220Rent
RunPod1x24 GBUS-MO-2Spot$0.220Rent
GCP1x24 GBAsia-PacificSpot$0.229Rent
AWS1x24 GBUS-EastSpot$0.250Rent
AWS1x24 GBEU-WestSpot$0.261Rent
GCP1x24 GBAsia-PacificSpot$0.265Rent
AWS1x24 GBAsia-PacificSpot$0.272Rent
AWS1x24 GBAsia-PacificSpot$0.274Rent

L40S Cloud Pricing

180 instances
ProviderGPUsVRAMRegionTypePrice/hr
CHEAPESTVerda1x48 GBEU-CentralSpot$0.320Rent
AWS1x44.7 GBUS-EastSpot$0.446Rent
Crusoe1x48 GBUS-WestSpot$0.500Rent
AWS1x44.7 GBUS-EastSpot$0.532Rent
AWS1x44.7 GBAsia-PacificSpot$0.560Rent
AWS1x44.7 GBUS-EastSpot$0.587Rent
Verda2x96 GBEU-CentralSpot$0.640Rent
AWS1x44.7 GBAsia-PacificSpot$0.669Rent
AWS1x44.7 GBeu-north-1Spot$0.723Rent
AWS1x44.7 GBeu-north-1Spot$0.723Rent

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