GPU pricing · Ada Lovelace
NVIDIA L40S price per GPU-hour
Updated 2026-10-19
Lowest in stock: $0.55/GPU-hr (Novita Ai), median $1.48 across 32 providers. On AWS: $1.86, and $25,000 in credits buys about 13,434 GPU-hours.
NVIDIA L40S has 48 GB of memory on the Ada Lovelace architecture.
AWS costs more per hour than the cheapest clouds, but it's the one your AWS credits pay for: the cheapest AWS option is g6e.xlarge.
- Lowest in stock
- $0.55/h
- Median
- $1.48/h · 32 providers
- On AWS
- $1.86/h
| Provider | Configuration | $/GPU-hr | Availability | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novita Ai | 1x L40S | $0.55 | In stock | GetDeploying |
| Gpu Ai | 2x L40S | $0.605 | In stock | GetDeploying |
| Beam | 1x L40S PCIe | $0.76 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| Packet Ai | 1x L40S nvidia-l40s-1gpu-dedicated | $0.92 | In stock | GetDeploying |
| Hostinger | 1x L40S | $0.96 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| Sesterce | 1x L40S | $0.968 | In stock | GetDeploying |
| Massed Compute | 1x L40S gpu_1x_l40s | $0.97 | In stock | GetDeploying |
| Geodd | 1x L40S PCIe gpu_1x_l40s | $1.00 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| RunPod | 1x L40S Secure Cloud | $1.09 | In stock | GetDeploying |
| Runcrate | 1x L40S PCIe | $1.14 | In stock | GetDeploying |
| Upcloud | 2x L40S GPU-12xCPU-128GB-2xL40S | $1.19 | In stock | GetDeploying |
| Koyeb | 1x L40S gpu-nvidia-l40s | $1.20 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| Gcore | 1x L40S PCIe | $1.21 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| Cyfuture | 8x L40S 8L40S.64v.2048m | $1.26 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| Civo | 1x L40S | $1.29 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| Lyceum | 1x L40S | $1.45 | In stock | GetDeploying |
| Crusoe | 1x L40S l40s-48gb.1x | $1.50 | In stock | GetDeploying |
| Nebius | 1x L40S PCIe NVIDIA L40S with Intel CPU | $1.55 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| DigitalOcean | 1x L40S | $1.57 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| Hikube | 1x L40S gpu.l40s | $1.78 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| Empiriolabs | 1x L40S l40s-1x | $1.80 | In stock | GetDeploying |
| Huggingface | 1x L40S l40sx1 | $1.80 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| OVHcloud | 1x L40S l40s-90 | $1.80 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| AWS | g6e.xlarge | $1.86 | In stock | AWS Price List |
| Acecloud | 1x L40S N.L40S.64 | $1.87 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| Cerebrium | 1x L40S ADA_L40 | $1.95 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| Spheron (marketplace) | 1x L40S PCIe EU North 1::gpu-l40s-a::1gpu-8vcpu-32gb | $2.11 | In stock | GetDeploying |
| Cloudferro | 1x L40S vm.l40s.8 | $2.21 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| Elastx | 1x L40S g3-c12-m180-d1600-g48 | $2.21 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| CoreWeave | 8x L40S | $2.25 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| Oracle Cloud | 4x L40S BM.GPU.L40S.4 | $3.50 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
| Replicate | 1x L40S gpu-l40s | $3.51 | Not reported | GetDeploying |
AWS instances with NVIDIA L40S
| Instance | GPUs | On demand / h | Per GPU-hour | Spot avg / h |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| g6e.xlarge | 1 | $1.86 | $1.86 | $1.83 |
| g6e.2xlarge | 1 | $2.24 | $2.24 | $2.21 |
| g6e.12xlarge | 4 | $10.49 | $2.62 | $7.93 |
What your AWS credits buy
| Credits | GPU-hours | Running 24/7 for |
|---|---|---|
| $1,000 | 537 | 22 days |
| $5,000 | 2,687 | 3.7 months |
| $25,000 | 13,434 | 18.4 months |
| $100,000 | 53,735 | 73.6 months |
Compare
Third-party prices are on-demand listings from GetDeploying (and the Azure Retail Prices API for Azure), checked 2026-10-14. We drop out-of-stock, community and spot listings, and any price under 35% of the median.
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Questions
How much does an L40S cost per hour?
From $0.55 per GPU-hour in stock on demand, with a median of $1.48 across 32 providers we track. On AWS it's $1.86 (g6e.xlarge, us-east-1).
Can AWS credits pay for L40S instances?
Yes, Activate credits cover on-demand AWS GPU instances. Capacity for top GPUs can be limited; Capacity Blocks and Savings Plans are not payable with credits.
Prices and credit amounts are estimates and may change. Check AWS for current terms.