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GPU Cloud Pricing · Ada Lovelace

L40S Cloud Pricing

The universal data center Ada card — 48 GB and strong FP8 throughput make it a favorite for mixed inference, fine-tuning, and rendering fleets.

In stock — 232 GPUs available nowFrom $0.740/GPU/hr
Live pricing

L40S price per GPU-hour

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$0.800
GPU.ai — Community Cloud$0.740
CoreWeave$1.24
AWS$1.52
Azure$2.50

Need scale? Real 4× L40S nodes are in inventory from $0.800/GPU/hr.

Available regions: Asia Pacific · Europe East · Europe West · US Central

How these prices are computed

GPU.ai prices are read live from our aggregated fleet of 12+ GPU clouds and normalized to a per-GPU hourly rate (a 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.

Specifications

NVIDIA L40S specs

ArchitectureAda Lovelace
VRAM48 GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth864 GB/s
FP16 tensor (dense)183 TFLOPS
CUDA cores18,176
Power (TDP)350 W
InterconnectPCIe 4.0
Released2023
What fits

What runs on 48 GB?

Minimum L40S count needed to hold popular open models in VRAM, at FP16 and 4-bit quantization.

ModelParamsFP164-bit
Llama 3.1 8B8B1× L40S1× L40S
Mistral 7B7B1× L40S1× L40S
Gemma 2 27B27B2× L40S1× L40S
Qwen2.5 32B32B2× L40S1× L40S
Llama 3.1 70B70B4× L40S1× L40S
Qwen2.5 72B72B4× L40S2× L40S
Mixtral 8x22B141B MoE8× L40S2× L40S
Llama 3.1 405B405BDoesn't fit8× L40S
FLUX.1 dev12B1× L40S1× L40S
SDXL3.5B1× L40S1× L40S
Whisper large-v31.5B1× L40S1× L40S

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.

FAQ

L40S rental questions

How much does it cost to rent an L40S in the cloud?

L40S cloud instances on GPU.ai currently start at $0.740 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.

How much VRAM does the L40S have?

The NVIDIA L40S has 48 GB of GDDR6 memory with up to 864 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.

Can I rent a multi-GPU L40S node?

Yes — real 4× L40S nodes are launchable right now, from $0.800 per GPU per hour. We only advertise node sizes that exist in live inventory, not theoretical configurations.

How does GPU.ai's L40S pricing compare to AWS, Azure, and CoreWeave?

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.

How does billing work?

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.