A40 rental prices: cheapest $/hr today
The cheapest on-demand A40 rental today is $0.44/hr on RunPod(secure cloud): verified 2026-08-22. 48 GB VRAM, NVIDIA.
Pricing at a glance
All current A40 offers
| Provider | Tier | $/hr | Verified | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RunPod | secure cloud | $0.44 | 2026-08-22 | source ↗ | Rent → |
| Vultr | on-demand | $1.71 | 2026-08-22 | source ↗ | Rent → |
Tables rank by price, lowest first. Commercial relationships never affect ordering.How we collect and rank prices.
Secure/on-demand = reserved datacenter capacity. Community/spot = cheaper but interruptible. Prices are per GPU per hour, before storage/egress. Every row shows when it was verified at its source.
A40 hardware specs
| Architecture | Ampere |
|---|---|
| VRAM | 48 GB |
| FP16 TFLOPS (dense) | 150 |
| Memory bandwidth | 696 GB/s |
| TDP | 300 W |
| Interconnect | NVLink 112.5GB/s |
| Launched | 2020 |
Datasheet spec for the A40 variant. Source: images.nvidia.com.
Price history
on-demand rate per day · median on-demand rate per day (dashed), since 2026-07-05: $0.25 low · $0.44 high. Full ledger on the history hub.
FAQ
The cheapest A40 rental we have is $0.44 per GPU-hour on RunPod (secure cloud), verified 2026-08-22.
48 GB.
RunPod has the cheapest verified on-demand rate today at $0.44 per GPU-hour. Verified 2026-08-22.
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Should you rent or buy?
A rough rule: divide the hardware price by the rental rate to get break-even hours. Run the exact math (with electricity) in the rent-vs-buy calculator.