01CGPU cloud · comparison· quotes observed 2026-10-11 to 2026-10-14 · specs reviewed 2026-10-15
L40S vs A100 80GB rental price and specs
L40S and A100 80GB side by side: the same provider-class price for each, price per dense PFLOP-hour at one precision at a time, and their spec sheets. Every price carries its venues and observation dates.
Rental price by provider class, US$ per GPU-hour
Each row compares one class aggregate with the same aggregate for the other chip — never one class or billing model with another. The on-demand rows use provider list prices only; the marketplace row is variable-availability asks.
| Class aggregate | L40S | A100 80GB | A100 80GB vs L40S |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical — median of specialist clouds | $1.53median of 4 · $1.09–$2.25 · observed to | $2.30median of 5 · $1.35–$2.79 · observed to | +51% |
| Big-cloud list price | $1.86AWS (g6e) · lowest of 2 · observed | $3.43AWS (p4de) · lowest of 3 · observed | +84% |
| Marketplace floor | —no comparable quote | —no comparable quote | — |
Price per dense PFLOP-hour, one precision at a time
Each chip's cheapest specialist on-demand list price divided by its dense (non-sparse) tensor rate at the same precision. A precision a spec sheet does not list is left blank, never converted from another.
| Precision | L40S | A100 80GB | A100 80GB ÷ L40S |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dense BF16 | $3.01RunPod $1.09/GPU·hr · | $4.33Hyperstack $1.35/GPU·hr · | 1.44× |
| Dense FP8 | $1.49RunPod $1.09/GPU·hr · | —no dense rate at this precision | — |
| Dense FP4 | —no dense rate at this precision | —no dense rate at this precision | — |
Spec differences
From each chip's spec-sheet row on /hardware, with its vendor-document review date; est marks a figure that review did not confirm.
| Spec | L40SL40S · reviewed 2026-10-15 | A100 80GBA100 SXM 80GB · reviewed 2026-10-15 | A100 80GB ÷ L40S |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dense BF16 | 362.05 TFLOPS | 312 TFLOPS | 0.86× |
| Dense FP8 | 733 TFLOPS | —not listed | — |
| Dense FP4 | —not listed | —not listed | — |
| Memory | 48 GB | 80 GB | 1.67× |
| Bandwidth | 0.864 TB/s | 2.04 TB/s | 2.36× |
| TDP | 350 W | 400 W | 1.14× |
Attribution for these prices and specifications: “AI Compute Tracker (aicomputetracker.com), CC BY 4.0; third-party terms apply to data from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, GPU cloud pricing pages, RunPod, Chip vendor documentation”.