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title: "L4 vs Tesla T4: Specs & Price per Hour (2026) | LowCostGPU"
description: "L4 vs Tesla T4: 24 vs 16 GB VRAM, 121 vs 65 FP16 TFLOPS, $0.196 vs $0.104/hr on LowCostGPU. Specs side by side, live rental prices, which to rent."
url: https://lowcostgpu.com/compare/l4-vs-tesla-t4
last_modified: 2026-10-20T10:29:15+00:00
prices_as_of: 2026-10-19
site: LowCostGPU (lowcostgpu.com)
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Compare · prices checked 2026-10-19

# L4 vs Tesla T4: specs, price per hour, which to rent

NVIDIA L4 (24 GB, **$0.196** /hr) against NVIDIA Tesla T4 (16 GB, **$0.104** /hr): public specs side by side, live fixed prices from our sheet, what fits in each card's VRAM, and a verdict written for real workloads — both are rentable right now.

- [NVIDIA L4 Ada Lovelace · 24 GB GDDR6 · 121 FP16 TFLOPS · $0.196/hr on-demand · $0.098/hr interruptible · 10 online](https://lowcostgpu.com/gpu/l4)
- [NVIDIA Tesla T4 Turing · 16 GB GDDR6 · 65 FP16 TFLOPS · $0.104/hr on-demand · $0.052/hr interruptible · 5 online](https://lowcostgpu.com/gpu/tesla-t4)

## L4 vs Tesla T4 specifications

Public NVIDIA figures (dense, non-sparsity). The last column is L4 relative to Tesla T4.

| Spec | L4 | Tesla T4 | Difference |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace (2023) | Turing (2018) | — |
| VRAM | 24 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB GDDR6 | +50% |
| Memory bandwidth | 300 GB/s | 320 GB/s | −6% |
| FP16 tensor (dense) | 121 TFLOPS | 65 TFLOPS | +86% |
| FP32 | 30.3 TFLOPS | 8.1 TFLOPS | +274% |
| CUDA cores | 7,680 | 2,560 | +200% |
| TDP | 72 W | 70 W | +3% |
| PCIe · NVLink | Gen 4.0 · no NVLink | Gen 3.0 · no NVLink | — |
| PowerScore (RTX 3090 = 100) | 85 | 46 | +85% |
| Max GPUs per machine | 4× | 8× | — |

## L4 vs Tesla T4 price per hour

Fixed rates from our sheet — every on-demand price is the marketplace median × 0.70, rounded down. Monthly = 730 hours.

| Rate | L4 | Tesla T4 | Cheaper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| On-demand, per GPU-hour | $0.196 | $0.104 | Tesla T4 (−47%) |
| Interruptible, per GPU-hour | $0.098 | $0.052 | Tesla T4 |
| Reserved (3 mo), per GPU-hour | $0.127 | $0.067 | Tesla T4 |
| On-demand, per month | $143 | $76 | Tesla T4 |
| Market median (reference) | $0.28 | $0.15 | — |
| $ per 1,000 FP16 TFLOP-hours | $1.62 | $1.60 | Tesla T4 (better value) |
| $ per GB of VRAM per hour | $0.0082 | $0.0065 | Tesla T4 (better value) |

Try a full month with storage and bandwidth in the [GPU cost calculator](https://lowcostgpu.com/calculator).

## What fits in VRAM: 24 GB vs 16 GB

| Workload | L4 | Tesla T4 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Largest LLM in FP16, one card | ~8B | ~3B |
| Largest LLM at 4-bit, one card | ~32B | ~24B |
| Flux dev (FP8, ~17 GB) | fits | tight |
| Wan 2.x 14B video (offloaded) | yes | no |
| 70B 4-bit LLM on one card | no | no |

Rules of thumb: ~2.4 GB per billion parameters in FP16 all-in, ~0.62 GB in 4-bit. Full tables in the [VRAM guide](https://lowcostgpu.com/guides/llm-vram-requirements).

## Verdict: which should you rent?

The L4 is the T4's Ada successor: 24 vs 16 GB, about twice the tensor throughput, AV1 encode, still 72 W and single-slot. The T4 is cheaper for tiny models; the L4 is the better rental for anything that touches video or exceeds 16 GB.

- **Cheaper per hour:** Tesla T4 ($0.104 vs $0.196, −47%).
- **More VRAM:** L4 (24 GB vs 16 GB).
- **More FP16 throughput:** L4 (about 1.9×).
- **Best value per TFLOP-hour:** Tesla T4.
- **Best value per GB of VRAM:** Tesla T4.
- **Multi-GPU:** L4 over PCIe · Tesla T4 over PCIe.

## Related comparisons

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- [L4 vs A10 $0.196 vs $0.168 per hour](https://lowcostgpu.com/compare/l4-vs-a10)

## L4 vs Tesla T4: FAQ

Deeper reading: [H100 vs H200 vs B200](https://lowcostgpu.com/guides/h100-vs-h200-vs-b200), [RTX 4090 vs RTX 5090](https://lowcostgpu.com/guides/rtx-4090-vs-rtx-5090), [how cloud GPU pricing works](https://lowcostgpu.com/guides/cloud-gpu-pricing-explained).

**Is the L4 faster than the Tesla T4?**

On dense FP16 tensor throughput the L4 leads by about 1.9× (121 vs 65 TFLOPS). Memory bandwidth matters as much for inference: L4 300 GB/s vs Tesla T4 320 GB/s.

**Which is cheaper to rent, the L4 or the Tesla T4?**

The Tesla T4: $0.104/hr on-demand versus $0.196/hr — 47% less. Interruptible rates are $0.098 (L4) and $0.052 (Tesla T4). Per TFLOP-hour the better value is the Tesla T4.

**Which has more VRAM and what does that change?**

The L4 has 24 GB versus 16 GB. In LLM terms that is roughly a 8B FP16 model (or ~32B in 4-bit) on one card against 3B FP16 (~24B 4-bit). If the model does not fit, speed is irrelevant.

**Can I rent both on LowCostGPU right now?**

Yes — 10 × L4 and 5 × Tesla T4 are online as this page renders, deployable in about 30 seconds, billed per second, paid in crypto with no KYC.

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