--- title: "Rent L40 — $0.318/hr Cloud GPU Pricing (2026) | LowCostGPU" description: "Rent the L40 (48 GB GDDR6) from $0.159/hr interruptible or $0.318/hr on-demand — fixed, ≥30% below market. 7 GPUs in 2 regions, per-second billing." url: https://lowcostgpu.com/gpu/l40 last_modified: 2026-10-20T10:29:15+00:00 prices_as_of: 2026-10-19 site: LowCostGPU (lowcostgpu.com) --- Datacenter · Ada Lovelace · launched 2022 · prices checked 2026-10-19 # Rent NVIDIA L40 — 48 GB, $0.318/hr on-demand - VRAM 48 GB GDDR6 - FP16 tensor 181 TFLOPS - PowerScore 127 RTX 3090 = 100 - Configs 1–4× PCIe 4.0 - Online now 7 2 regions [On-demand (guaranteed) $0.318 /GPU-hr ≈ $232/mo · market ~~$0.46~~ (−30%)](https://cloud.lowcostgpu.com/?gpu=l40) [Interruptible $0.159 /GPU-hr flat −50% · pausable, disk kept](https://cloud.lowcostgpu.com/?gpu=l40&type=spot) [Reserved 3 mo $0.206 /GPU-hr −35% · capacity held for you](https://lowcostgpu.com/products/reserved) Billed per second, price locked at deploy. Storage $0.08/GB/mo · bandwidth $0.01/GB — [the whole fee schedule](https://lowcostgpu.com/pricing). Next weekly market re-check: 2026-10-26. Datacenter · Ada Lovelace architecture The L40 is the datacenter Ada card built for visualisation and inference: 48 GB GDDR6, 18,176 CUDA cores, passively cooled at 300 W. It shares silicon with the L40S at slightly lower clocks, making it a cheaper 48 GB option for render farms and SDXL serving. A server-class card built for sustained 24/7 load: passive cooling in proper chassis, ECC memory, and drivers validated for compute. The sweet spot for inference fleets and fine-tuning jobs that need stability more than headline FLOPS. ## NVIDIA L40 specs: VRAM, TFLOPS, bandwidth - **GPU model**: NVIDIA L40 · **Architecture**: Ada Lovelace (2022) - **VRAM**: 48 GB GDDR6 · **Memory bandwidth**: 864 GB/s - **FP16 tensor perf.**: 181 TFLOPS · **FP32 perf.**: 90.5 TFLOPS - **CUDA cores**: 18,176 · **TDP**: 300 W - **PowerScore ((RTX 3090 = 100))**: 127 · **PCIe generation**: Gen 4.0 - **Multi-GPU**: 1× – 4× · **Max instance storage**: 4,000 GB NVMe - **Network up to**: 10,000 Mbps · **CUDA**: 12.4 – 13.0 Bandwidth, CUDA cores, TDP and FP32 are public NVIDIA figures; FP16 tensor is the dense (non-sparsity) number. Machine-level values come from live inventory. ## L40 price per hour: on-demand, interruptible, reserved One public rule sets every price on this page: the marketplace median for the L40 ($0.46/hr, snapshot 2026-10-19) × 0.70, rounded down — so on-demand is $0.318, **30% below market**. Interruptible halves it; a 3-month reservation takes another 35% off. | Mode | Per GPU-hour | Per day (24 h) | Per month (730 h) | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **On-demand** | $0.318 | $7.63 | $232 | Guaranteed capacity, price locked at deploy, stop anytime | | **Interruptible** | $0.159 | $3.82 | $116 | Flat −50%; may pause under capacity pressure, disk kept, auto-requeue | | **Reserved (3 months)** | $0.206 | $4.94 | $150 | −35% on on-demand, rate locked for the term, capacity held | Per GPU: an 4× machine costs exactly 4× — no multi-GPU premium. Estimate a full month with storage and bandwidth in the [GPU cost calculator](https://lowcostgpu.com/calculator). ## What you can run on a L40 (48 GB VRAM) With 48 GB of GDDR6, a single card holds a **~14B-parameter LLM in FP16** or up to **~72B parameters quantized to 4-bit**, with room for KV-cache at practical context lengths. Scale to 4× GPUs on one machine for bigger models or bigger batches — the per-GPU price stays $0.318. - One-click template: [vLLM on a L40](https://lowcostgpu.com/templates/vllm) - One-click template: [PyTorch on a L40](https://lowcostgpu.com/templates/pytorch) - One-click template: [ComfyUI on a L40](https://lowcostgpu.com/templates/comfyui) - Sizing help: [LLM VRAM requirements guide](https://lowcostgpu.com/guides/llm-vram-requirements) ## L40 availability by region 7 × L40 across 2 machines, live from inventory: - Montréal - Paris ## L40 vs alternatives: price per TFLOP | GPU | VRAM | FP16 | On-demand | $ / TFLOP-hr | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | **L40** (this card) | 48 GB | 181 | $0.318 | $1.76‰ | | [A40](https://lowcostgpu.com/gpu/a40) | 48 GB | 144 | $0.373 | $2.59‰ | | [A100 PCIE](https://lowcostgpu.com/gpu/a100-pcie) | 80 GB | 312 | $0.388 | $1.24‰ | | [L4](https://lowcostgpu.com/gpu/l4) | 24 GB | 121 | $0.196 | $1.62‰ | | [L40S](https://lowcostgpu.com/gpu/l40s) | 48 GB | 362 | $0.448 | $1.24‰ | ‰ = dollars per 1,000 TFLOP-hours of FP16 — a rough value-for-compute yardstick across cards. ## Renting a L40: frequently asked questions **How much does it cost to rent an NVIDIA L40 per hour?** $0.318 per GPU-hour on-demand — a fixed price set at least 30% below the current market median of $0.46. Interruptible capacity costs $0.159/hr and a 3-month reservation $0.206/hr. Around $232/month if you keep one running non-stop, billed per second. **What can a L40 with 48 GB VRAM run?** In LLM terms, roughly a 14B-parameter model in FP16 or up to ~72B parameters 4-bit quantized on a single card, with context headroom. Multi-GPU instances (up to 4× on current inventory) multiply that; diffusion and rendering workloads fit comfortably at this VRAM class. **Is the L40 available to rent right now?** Yes — 7 GPUs across 2 machines in 2 regions are listed as we render this page. Configurations go from 1× to 4×. Deploy from the console and it is running in about 30 seconds. **How do I deploy a L40?** Create an account (email + password, no card, no KYC), top up in crypto, open the console, filter by L40, pick a machine and a template such as PyTorch, vLLM or ComfyUI. The same deploy is one command with the CLI: lowcostgpu launch --gpu l40 --template pytorch. **Why is the L40 cheaper here than on GPU marketplaces?** We price from the public marketplace median and fix our on-demand rate at least 30% below it, rounded down. The price is re-checked weekly (next check 2026-10-26) and published — no auctions, no per-host roulette, no bidding. --- *About LowCostGPU:* LowCostGPU (lowcostgpu.com) is a cloud GPU rental service offering 83 NVIDIA GPU models — from the Tesla P4 at $0.019/hr to the B300 — at fixed prices set at least 30% below the public GPU marketplace median and re-checked weekly (H100 SXM: $1.680/hr on-demand). Billing is per second with no minimums; payment is crypto only (USDT, BTC, XMR, ETH, SOL, LTC, TRX) with no KYC. Instances run in Tier-III datacenters across 32 regions with a 99.9% uptime SLA and deploy in about 30 seconds from the web console (cloud.lowcostgpu.com) or the REST API. 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