GPU Cloud Pricing · Ampere
The original A100 — same compute as the 80 GB part with half the memory, often the cheapest NVLink-capable data center silicon on the market.
GPU.ai rates are the live fleet floor — the cheapest provider with stock, passed through at cost. Competitor rates are public on-demand list prices.
| Provider | $ / GPU / hr |
|---|---|
| GPU.ai — Secure Cloud | $0.890 |
| GPU.ai — Community Cloud | $0.570 |
| CoreWeave | Not available |
| AWS | Not available |
| Azure | Not available |
Need scale? Real 8× A100 40GB nodes are in inventory from $0.723/GPU/hr.
Available regions: Asia Pacific · Canada Central · Europe East · Europe West · India South · US East
GPU.ai prices are read live from our aggregated fleet of 12+ GPU clouds and normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate (a 8× node's price is divided by its GPU count). We charge the provider's raw rate with zero markup and bill per second. Competitor figures are each provider's public on-demand list rate for the closest equivalent SKU — never spot, reserved, or committed-use discounts. Stock counts reflect launchable inventory, not theoretical capacity. Last updated 2026-08-17; this page refreshes hourly.
| Architecture | Ampere |
| VRAM | 40 GB HBM2 |
| Memory bandwidth | 1,555 GB/s |
| FP16 tensor (dense) | 312 TFLOPS |
| CUDA cores | 6,912 |
| Power (TDP) | 400 W |
| Interconnect | NVLink 3 (600 GB/s) |
| Released | 2020 |
Minimum A100 40GB count needed to hold popular open models in VRAM, at FP16 and 4-bit quantization.
| Model | Params | FP16 | 4-bit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 8B | 8B | 1× A100 40GB | 1× A100 40GB |
| Mistral 7B | 7B | 1× A100 40GB | 1× A100 40GB |
| Gemma 2 27B | 27B | 2× A100 40GB | 1× A100 40GB |
| Qwen2.5 32B | 32B | 2× A100 40GB | 1× A100 40GB |
| Llama 3.1 70B | 70B | 8× A100 40GB | 2× A100 40GB |
| Qwen2.5 72B | 72B | 8× A100 40GB | 2× A100 40GB |
| Mixtral 8x22B | 141B MoE | Doesn't fit | 4× A100 40GB |
| Llama 3.1 405B | 405B | Doesn't fit | 8× A100 40GB |
| FLUX.1 dev | 12B | 1× A100 40GB | 1× A100 40GB |
| SDXL | 3.5B | 1× A100 40GB | 1× A100 40GB |
| Whisper large-v3 | 1.5B | 1× A100 40GB | 1× A100 40GB |
Weights-only estimates with a 20% margin for KV cache and activations at moderate context. Long contexts, large batches, and training need substantially more memory.
A100 40GB cloud instances on GPU.ai currently start at $0.570 per GPU per hour, billed per second. That is the live floor price across every provider in our fleet — we route your launch to the cheapest provider with stock and add zero markup.
The NVIDIA A100 40GB has 40 GB of HBM2 memory with up to 1,555 GB/s of bandwidth. GPU.ai reports the minimum VRAM actually delivered across our fleet, so the figure you see at launch is the figure you get.
Yes — real 8× A100 40GB nodes are launchable right now, from $0.723 per GPU per hour. We only advertise node sizes that exist in live inventory, not theoretical configurations.
GPU.ai aggregates a dozen-plus GPU clouds and passes through each provider's raw price with no markup, so the same silicon is typically far cheaper than hyperscaler list rates. The comparison table on this page shows the current public on-demand list prices side by side.
Billing is per second, starting when your instance is SSH-ready and stopping the moment you terminate. There are no minimum commitments, no reservation fees, and no egress surprises — you pay the listed hourly rate pro-rated to the second.