What is the cheapest 48GB GPU to rent?
The 48GB class is led by cards like the L40S, A40, RTX 6000 Ada, and RTX A6000, and they usually rent for a lot less than an 80GB datacenter card while still giving you real headroom. Forty-eight gigabytes is the sweet spot for running a quantized 70B model on a single card, serving mid-size models with long context, and comfortable fine-tuning. The table below lists the 48GB-and-up cards we track, sorted by price.
| GPU | VRAM | $/hr | Where | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A40 | 48 GB | $0.44 | RunPod secure cloud | Rent → |
| RTX A6000 | 48 GB | $0.49 | RunPod secure cloud | Rent → |
| RTX 6000 Ada | 48 GB | $0.77 | RunPod secure cloud | Rent → |
| L40 | 48 GB | $0.82 | RunPod secure cloud | Rent → |
| L40S | 48 GB | $0.88 | Massed Compute on-demand | Rent → |
| A100 | 80 GB | $0.89 | Jarvislabs on-demand | Rent → |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 96 GB | $1.80 | Nebius on-demand | Rent → |
| GH200 | 96 GB | $1.88 | Spheron on-demand | Rent → |
| H100 | 94 GB | $1.99 | Voltage Park on-demand | Rent → |
| MI300X | 192 GB | $2.19 | RunPod secure cloud | Rent → |
Forty-eight gigabytes is where single-card work stops feeling cramped. A 70B model at 4-bit fits, a 30B model runs at full precision with room for a large key-value cache, and image or video generation pipelines that swap between models have space to breathe. You get most of the practical capability of an 80GB card for a lower rate.
The cards differ in character. The L40S is a fast, modern datacenter card and often the best performer here. The A40 is an older datacenter card that tends to be cheaper. The RTX 6000 Ada and RTX A6000 are workstation cards with the same 48GB but different availability across providers. Once prices are close, choose on the reliability tier and how much throughput you actually need.
The table below is rebuilt from the daily snapshot and sorted by price, so it reflects what was verified most recently rather than a fixed list price.
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Numbers on this page come from today's verified snapshot. Full table on the homepage; method in the methodology.