NVIDIA A100 40GB rental price per hour
40GB HBM2 VRAM · Ampere architecture · released 2020
The cheapest way to rent an NVIDIA A100 40GB by the hour in June 2026 is about $0.58/hr on Vast.ai. We track 7 providers publishing an on-demand price for it , and spot/community rates reach as low as $0.75/hr. Budget training and inference for smaller models, fine-tuning and research. The cheapest datacenter A100; 40GB limits the largest model sizes.
Source: Provider pricing pages. Data as of June 2026.
NVIDIA A100 40GB price by provider
| Provider | Type | On-demand /hr | Spot/community /hr | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.58/hr | — | Marketplace median (PCIe). Host-set. |
| RunPod | specialist | $1.19/hr | — | Secure Cloud PCIe. |
| Verda (formerly DataCrunch) | specialist | $1.29/hr | — | On-demand. |
| Lambda | specialist | $1.99/hr | — | SXM on-demand. |
| AWS EC2 | hyperscaler | $2.75/hr | $1.42/hr | Derived: p4d.24xlarge $21.96/hr / 8 GPUs (SXM). |
| Microsoft Azure | hyperscaler | $3.40/hr | $0.75/hr | Derived: ND A100 v4 $27.20/hr / 8 GPUs (SXM). |
| Google Cloud | hyperscaler | $3.67/hr | $1.84/hr | a2-highgpu-1g (1 GPU) $3.67/hr. |
| CoreWeave | specialist | — | — | Not on public price list. |
| Crusoe | specialist | — | — | Not offered (80GB only). |
| Hyperstack | specialist | — | — | Not offered (80GB only). |
| Nebius | specialist | — | — | Not listed. |
| Paperspace (DigitalOcean) | specialist | — | — | Not currently offered. |
| Together AI | specialist | — | — | Not offered. |
| Vultr Cloud GPU | specialist | — | — | Not offered (80GB only). |
Source: Provider pricing pages. Data as of June 2026.
Sorted cheapest on-demand first; "—" means the provider does not publish a price for this GPU (see the note). Snapshot June 2026 — cloud GPU prices change weekly; verify on the provider's pricing page before relying on a figure.
About the NVIDIA A100 40GB
Budget training and inference for smaller models, fine-tuning and research. The cheapest datacenter A100; 40GB limits the largest model sizes.
- VRAM: 40GB HBM2
- Architecture: Ampere
- Released: 2020
- Cheapest on-demand: $0.58/hr on Vast.ai
- Cheapest spot/community: $0.75/hr on Microsoft Azure
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to rent an NVIDIA A100 40GB per hour?
The cheapest on-demand NVIDIA A100 40GB we track is $0.58/hr on Vast.ai, with 7 providers publishing a price. Spot/community rates go as low as $0.75/hr. Snapshot June 2026 — cloud GPU prices change weekly; verify on the provider's pricing page before relying on a figure.
Which provider is cheapest for the NVIDIA A100 40GB?
Vast.ai at $0.58/hr is the cheapest on-demand option in our June 2026 snapshot. Specialist neoclouds and marketplaces usually beat the hyperscalers (AWS/GCP/Azure) by 2-4x on the same GPU.
What is the NVIDIA A100 40GB good for?
Budget training and inference for smaller models, fine-tuning and research. The cheapest datacenter A100; 40GB limits the largest model sizes. It has 40GB HBM2 of VRAM and uses the Ampere architecture (released 2020).
Is spot or on-demand cheaper for the NVIDIA A100 40GB?
Spot, community and interruptible tiers can cut the NVIDIA A100 40GB price roughly in half — the cheapest discounted rate we track is $0.75/hr versus $0.58/hr on-demand. The trade-off is your instance can be reclaimed, so use spot for fault-tolerant or checkpointed jobs.
Related GPUs
- NVIDIA A100 80GB (80GB HBM2e)
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Source & accuracy
Figures are a dated snapshot from each provider's published pricing page (as of June 2026). Hyperscaler per-GPU prices are derived from 8-GPU instance prices (instance price / 8) and include bundled vCPU/RAM; marketplace (Vast.ai) figures are moving medians, not list prices. We do not invent numbers — where a value is unknown we show "—" with a reason. See our methodology. This is an informational comparison, not a quote.
Last updated: 2026-06-21