Nvidia L40S cloud rental prices

10 providers list the Nvidia L40S, 6 have it in stock. Prices run from $0.35 to $1.70 per GPU hour — the same card, 4.9x apart.

Ada Lovelace 48 GB VRAM Q3 2023 48 configurations

Prices and stock checked 0 minutes ago

Cheapest
$0.35
Median
$0.83
across 10 providers
Most expensive
$1.70
same card, 4.9x the price
You overpay by
58%
if you take the median instead of the floor

What it costs you to run

1 hour
$0.35
24 hours
$8.40
1 week
$59
1 month (730h)
$255
1 year
$3,066

Estimated at the cheapest listed rate of $0.35/GPU/hr (Lium), per GPU, before storage, egress or commitment discounts.

Renting at the median instead of the floor costs you an extra $354 a month per GPU. That is 58% of the bill, for identical silicon.

Every provider renting the Nvidia L40S

Ordered strictly by entry price per GPU hour. Rows above the median are marked. Stock is what the provider reported at our last check, not a guarantee.

Providers renting the Nvidia L40S, cheapest first
Provider Country Configs Scale From Spot Reserved Stock Grab
Lium 1 1x-1x $0.35 In stock GrabLium — opens the provider's site
Vast.ai United States of America 1 8x-8x $0.47 In stock GrabVast.ai — opens the provider's site
BoostRun 2 8x-8x $0.69 Out of stock GrabBoostRun — opens the provider's site
Latitude.sh Brazil 5 1x-8x $0.74 Out of stock GrabLatitude.sh — opens the provider's site
Runpod United States of America 2 1x-1x $0.79 $0.79 In stock GrabRunpod — opens the provider's site
Massed Compute United States of America 16 1x-8x $0.88 In stock GrabMassed Compute — opens the provider's site
Verda Finland 2 1x-8x $1.43 Out of stock GrabVerda — opens the provider's site
Crusoe United States of America 10 1x-10x $1.45 In stock GrabCrusoe — opens the provider's site
DigitalOcean United States of America 1 1x-1x $1.57 Out of stock GrabDigitalOcean — opens the provider's site
Scaleway France 8 1x-8x $1.70 In stock GrabScaleway — opens the provider's site

Live inventory signal

The Lium marketplace publishes GPU counts, which almost nobody else does. It holds 72 Nvidia L40S GPUs at $0.35/GPU/hr, with 94% already rented. At that utilisation the cheap capacity is gone within hours.

All 48 configurations

48 of 48 configurations
Nvidia L40S configurations from every provider
ConfigurationProviderRegionVRAMvCPURAMBillingPer GPU/hrTotal/hrStock
1x NVIDIA L40SLiumOn-Demand$0.35$0.35In stock
8x L40SVast.aiJP360 GB1281511 GBOn-Demand$0.47$3.73In stock
8x L40SBoostRundallas-usa-4384 GB641536 GBOn-Demand$0.69$5.52Out of stock
8x L40SBoostRunraleigh-usa-1384 GB641536 GBOn-Demand$0.69$5.52Out of stock
1x L40SLatitude.shfrankfurt-germany-548 GB16128 GBOn-Demand$0.74$0.74Out of stock
1x L40SLatitude.shdallas-usa-148 GB16128 GBOn-Demand$0.74$0.74Out of stock
1x L40SLatitude.shashburn-usa-748 GB16128 GBOn-Demand$0.74$0.74Out of stock
1x L40SRunpod48 GBOn-Demand$0.79$0.79In stock
1x L40SRunpod48 GBSpot$0.79$0.79In stock
8x L40SLatitude.shfrankfurt-germany-5384 GB1281536 GBOn-Demand$0.87$6.97Out of stock
8x L40SLatitude.shdallas-usa-1384 GB1281536 GBOn-Demand$0.87$6.97Out of stock
1x L40SMassed Computedesmoines-usa-348 GB1272 GBOn-Demand$0.88$0.88Out of stock
1x L40SMassed Computekansascity-usa-548 GB1272 GBOn-Demand$0.88$0.88Out of stock
1x L40SMassed Computedesmoines-usa-148 GB1272 GBOn-Demand$0.88$0.88In stock
1x L40SMassed Computekansascity-usa-148 GB1272 GBOn-Demand$0.88$0.88In stock
4x L40SMassed Computekansascity-usa-5192 GB88288 GBOn-Demand$0.88$3.52Out of stock
4x L40SMassed Computedesmoines-usa-3192 GB88288 GBOn-Demand$0.88$3.52Out of stock
4x L40SMassed Computekansascity-usa-1192 GB88288 GBOn-Demand$0.88$3.52In stock
4x L40SMassed Computedesmoines-usa-1192 GB88288 GBOn-Demand$0.88$3.52Out of stock
8x L40SMassed Computedesmoines-usa-1384 GB142768 GBOn-Demand$0.88$7.04Out of stock
8x L40SMassed Computedesmoines-usa-3384 GB142768 GBOn-Demand$0.88$7.04Out of stock
8x L40SMassed Computekansascity-usa-5384 GB142768 GBOn-Demand$0.88$7.04Out of stock
8x L40SMassed Computekansascity-usa-1384 GB142768 GBOn-Demand$0.88$7.04In stock
2x L40SMassed Computekansascity-usa-196 GB44256 GBOn-Demand$0.88$1.76In stock
2x L40SMassed Computekansascity-usa-596 GB44256 GBOn-Demand$0.88$1.76Out of stock
2x L40SMassed Computedesmoines-usa-396 GB44256 GBOn-Demand$0.88$1.76Out of stock
2x L40SMassed Computedesmoines-usa-196 GB44256 GBOn-Demand$0.88$1.76In stock
1x L40SVerdahelsinki-finland-248 GB2060 GBOn-Demand$1.43$1.43Out of stock
8x L40SVerdahelsinki-finland-1384 GB160480 GBOn-Demand$1.44$11.50Out of stock
10x L40SCrusoeculpeper-usa-1480 GB801470 GBOn-Demand$1.45$14.50Out of stock
10x L40SCrusoehouston-usa-2480 GB801470 GBOn-Demand$1.45$14.50Out of stock
1x L40SCrusoeculpeper-usa-148 GB8147 GBOn-Demand$1.45$1.45Out of stock
1x L40SCrusoehouston-usa-248 GB8147 GBOn-Demand$1.45$1.45Out of stock
2x L40SCrusoehouston-usa-296 GB16294 GBOn-Demand$1.45$2.90In stock
2x L40SCrusoeculpeper-usa-196 GB16294 GBOn-Demand$1.45$2.90In stock
8x L40SCrusoehouston-usa-2384 GB641176 GBOn-Demand$1.45$11.60Out of stock
8x L40SCrusoeculpeper-usa-1384 GB641176 GBOn-Demand$1.45$11.60Out of stock
4x L40SCrusoehouston-usa-2192 GB32588 GBOn-Demand$1.45$5.80Out of stock
4x L40SCrusoeculpeper-usa-1192 GB32588 GBOn-Demand$1.45$5.80Out of stock
1x L40SDigitalOceantoronto-canada-148 GB864 GBOn-Demand$1.57$1.57Out of stock
1x L40SScalewayparis-france-148 GB896 GBOn-Demand$1.70$1.70Out of stock
1x L40SScalewaywarsaw-poland-148 GB896 GBOn-Demand$1.70$1.70In stock
8x L40SScalewaywarsaw-poland-1384 GB64768 GBOn-Demand$1.70$13.60Out of stock
8x L40SScalewayparis-france-1384 GB64768 GBOn-Demand$1.70$13.60Out of stock
2x L40SScalewayparis-france-196 GB16192 GBOn-Demand$1.70$3.40Out of stock
2x L40SScalewaywarsaw-poland-196 GB16192 GBOn-Demand$1.70$3.40In stock
4x L40SScalewaywarsaw-poland-1192 GB32384 GBOn-Demand$1.70$6.80Out of stock
4x L40SScalewayparis-france-1192 GB32384 GBOn-Demand$1.70$6.80Out of stock

What fits in 48 GB

The question behind most rentals: will the model load. Sized against one Nvidia L40S.

VRAM required to serve open-weight LLMs on a Nvidia L40S, by quantization precision
Model 16-bit8-bit4-bit
DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek · 671B params · 37B active 1,610 GB 34× · 22 GB free 805 GB 17× · 11 GB free 403 GB 9× · 29 GB free
Llama 3.1 405B Meta · 405B params 972 GB 21× · 36 GB free 486 GB 11× · 42 GB free 243 GB 6× · 45 GB free
Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba · 235B params · 22B active 564 GB 12× · 12 GB free 282 GB 6× · 6 GB free 141 GB 3× · 3 GB free
Mixtral 8x22B Mistral · 141B params · 39B active 338 GB 8× · 46 GB free 169 GB 4× · 23 GB free 85 GB 2× · 11 GB free
Mistral Large 2 Mistral · 123B params 295 GB 7× · 41 GB free 148 GB 4× · 44 GB free 74 GB 2× · 22 GB free
gpt-oss-120b OpenAI · 117B params · 5.1B active 281 GB 6× · 7 GB free 140 GB 3× · 4 GB free 70 GB 2× · 26 GB free
Qwen2.5 72B Alibaba · 72.7B params 174 GB 4× · 18 GB free 87 GB 2× · 9 GB free 44 GB 1× · 4 GB free
Llama 3.3 70B Meta · 70.6B params 169 GB 4× · 23 GB free 85 GB 2× · 11 GB free 42 GB 1× · 6 GB free
Qwen3 32B Alibaba · 32.8B params 79 GB 2× · 17 GB free 39 GB 1× · 9 GB free 20 GB 1× · 28 GB free
Gemma 2 27B Google · 27.2B params 65 GB 2× · 31 GB free 33 GB 1× · 15 GB free 16 GB 1× · 32 GB free
Mistral Small 3 Mistral · 24B params 58 GB 2× · 38 GB free 29 GB 1× · 19 GB free 14 GB 1× · 34 GB free
Llama 3.1 8B Meta · 8B params 19 GB 1× · 29 GB free 10 GB 1× · 38 GB free 5 GB 1× · 43 GB free

Required memory is weights plus 20% for KV cache and runtime at short context; long contexts and large batches need more. Cells tinted green fit on a single Nvidia L40S.

Nvidia L40S specifications

Nvidia L40S hardware specifications
ArchitectureAda Lovelace
Memory per GPU48 GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth864 GB/s
Release dateQ3 2023
FP8 compute rate733 TFLOPS (dense), 1,466 with sparsity
FP16 / BF16 compute rate362.1 TFLOPS (dense), 733 with sparsity
INT8 compute rate733 TOPS (dense), 1,466 with sparsity
Process nodeTSMC 4N
Board power350 W

Frequently asked questions

How much does it cost to rent a Nvidia L40S per hour?

As of September 6, 2026 the Nvidia L40S rents from $0.35 per GPU per hour at Lium. The median across 10 providers is $0.83 and the dearest listing asks $1.70.

Who is the cheapest Nvidia L40S provider right now?

Lium at $0.35 per GPU per hour. That is 58% under the median of $0.83, so renting from a mid-priced provider costs you $0.48 an hour more for the same silicon.

What does a Nvidia L40S cost per month?

At the cheapest listed rate of $0.35 per GPU per hour, one Nvidia L40S running non-stop for a 730-hour month costs $255. At the median rate it costs $610.

Can I actually get a Nvidia L40S today?

Yes. 6 of 10 providers reported Nvidia L40S stock at the last check. The cheapest one with confirmed stock is Lium at $0.35 per GPU per hour.

How much VRAM does the Nvidia L40S have?

48 GB GDDR6 per board. That holds a model of roughly 19 billion parameters at 16-bit, or about 38 billion at 8-bit, before context and activations.

What architecture is the Nvidia L40S, and when did it launch?

Ada Lovelace, released Q3 2023. 10 cloud providers publish a price for it.

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