GPU prices / L40S-48GB

NVIDIA L40S 48 GB
L40S-48GB costs $0.38 to $3.51 per GPU-hour on demand across 20 cloud providers, cheapest at Lium. Prices were read from each provider's own pricing page, most recently on 2026-10-27.
Cheapest read 27 Oct · spread 9.2× · a missing provider is never an estimate
CHEAPEST $0.38/hrMEDIAN $1.15/hrSPREAD 9.2×PROVIDERS 20
Price by provider — cheapest first
Provider$/GPU·hr ↓Δ 7dTermsRead
Why a provider might be missing: its price is behind a quote form, older than 21 days, or flagged for review. A missing row is never an estimate.
Price history — cheapest daily reading
⚑ 7 of 12 weeks measuredWEEKLY LOW SHOWN
2026-08-05A FLAT MARK IS A WEEK WE DID NOT READ2026-10-21
Cost calculator
GPUs1×
Hours / month730 h
730 = 24/7 · on-demand rates only
Lium$277 /mo
Vast.ai$438 /mo
Shadeform$504 /mo
Sesterce$555 /mo
Beam$555 /mo
Runcrate$650 /mo
Packet·ai$672 /mo
Spheron$701 /mo
Massed Compute$708 /mo
RunPod$796 /mo
Koyeb$876 /mo
Civo$942 /mo
DigitalOcean$1,146 /mo
Vultr$1,220 /mo
Verda (DataCrunch)$1,347 /mo
Cerebrium$1,424 /mo
Modal$1,424 /mo
Lyceum$1,453 /mo
CoreWeave$1,643 /mo
Replicate$2,562 /mo
Spec sheet
VRAM48 GB
Bandwidth0.864 TB/s
FP16362 TFLOPS
FP8733 TFLOPS
TDP350 W
NVLinkPCIe 4 (no NVLink)
ArchitectureAda Lovelace
Released2023
8 of 8 figures held · 6 are on record but not verified against the page they cite · only a verified figure links its source
Good for
Cost-efficient single-GPU FP8 inference/fine-tune of <=30B & multimodal; not for big distributed training
reasoned from the specification, not measured
Benchmarks
LLMs that fit this GPU’s VRAM
FP16
~19B params
FP8
~38B params
FP4/INT4
~76B params
Qwen 14B @FP16; 32B @FP8; Llama 3.1 8B @FP16
No NVLink: poor for large multi-GPU training
ceilings at each precision, reasoned from VRAM · not a benchmark · specification unverified
Frequently asked
How much does an L40S-48GB cost per hour right now?
$0.38 an hour at Lium, the cheapest of 20 sellers we read. The dearest posts $3.51 at Replicate. Every rate links to the page it was read from, with the date it was read.
Why do L40S-48GB prices vary 9.2× between providers?
Because a GPU-hour is not one product. $0.38 at Lium and $3.51 at Replicate buy different things: interconnect, host CPU and RAM, storage, egress, support, and whether the capacity is dedicated or shared. We publish the posted rate for each and the page it came from, and do not blend them into one number.
What is the cheapest way to rent an L40S-48GB long-term?
We hold no committed or reserved rate for this card — every figure here is an on-demand posted rate. Committed pricing is usually quoted rather than published, so the honest answer is that we cannot tell you, rather than a guess at a discount.
How fresh are these prices?
These rates were read between 2026-10-07 and 2026-10-27. Nothing older than 21 days is shown: a reading that goes stale is hidden rather than displayed with an old date, because a wrong price is worse than a missing one. Each row links to the page its figure came from, so any of them can be checked against the seller.
Which is cheaper for an L40S-48GB — a region or a commitment?
Both move the number and they move it independently. Where a provider prices the same card in several regions we show the cheapest they charge anywhere and name the region, because a rate you can only get in Estonia is still a rate you can get. A committed term is a different contract rather than a discount on this one, so committed rates are kept out of the headline and shown separately.
Can a provider pay to be listed first for the L40S-48GB?
No. The table has one stated sort at a time and nothing in it can be bought — a sponsor cannot enter it, reorder a row or change a rate. How the site is paid for, and the line each source of money does not cross, is set out under money and independence at /our-data#sec5.
Cite this page
infratoapp, “L40S-48GB cloud pricing”, read 27 October 2026. $0.38 per GPU-hour at Lium. https://www.infratoapp.com/gpu/L40S-48GB
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