Cheapest L40S rental
From $0.69 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai on 2026-09-18 — 53% under the $1.47 median across 30 providers.
Prices collected 2026-09-18 · every provider's own public pricing
Cheapest ten listings
Individual on-demand configurations, in stock, cheapest first — a listing is one instance type, SKU or marketplace offer, priced per GPU. Marketplace offers are single machines and can be gone by the time you look.
| # | Provider | Configuration | GPUs | $/GPU/hr | Month | vs median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Vast.ai | L40S ×1 · offer 50582903 · Czechia, CZ | 1 | $0.69 | $500 | −53% |
| 2 |  Beam | 1x l40s · listed | 1 | $0.76 | $547 | −48% |
| 3 |  RunPod Community Cloud | L40S · Community Cloud | 1 | $0.79 | $569 | −46% |
| 4 |  GPU.ai | 1x l40s · listed | 1 | $0.79 | $569 | −46% |
| 5 | GPU.ai | 1x l40s · listed | 1 | $0.80 | $576 | −46% |
| 6 | Vast.ai | L40S ×2 · offer 25918211 · Taiwan, TW | 2 | $0.80 | $577 | −46% |
| 7 | Vast.ai | L40S ×4 · offer 35897695 · Taiwan, TW | 4 | $0.80 | $577 | −46% |
| 8 | Vast.ai | L40S ×1 · offer 25990407 · Taiwan, TW | 1 | $0.80 | $578 | −45% |
| 9 |  io.net | 8x l40s · listed | 8 | $0.84 | $605 | −43% |
| 10 | io.net | 4x l40s · listed | 4 | $0.84 | $605 | −43% |
Every provider, cheapest first
Each provider reduced to its own median for the L40S — 15 of 30 sit below the market median.
| Provider | Kind | Median $/GPU/hr | vs market |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beam | neocloud | $0.76 | −48% |
| RunPod Community Cloud | marketplace | $0.79 | −46% |
| GPU.ai | marketplace | $0.80 | −46% |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.80 | −46% |
| io.net | marketplace | $0.89 | −39% |
 Packet.ai | neocloud | $0.92 | −37% |
| marketplace | $0.96 | −35% | |
| neocloud | $0.97 | −34% | |
 Runcrate | neocloud | $0.97 | −34% |
 Seeweb | neocloud | $0.98 | −34% |
 RunPod Secure Cloud | neocloud | $1.09 | −26% |
 Koyeb | neocloud | $1.20 | −18% |
| neocloud | $1.20 | −18% | |
 Civo | neocloud | $1.29 | −12% |
 Lyceum | neocloud | $1.44 | −2% |
 Crusoe | neocloud | $1.50 | +2% |
 DataCrunch (Verda) | neocloud | $1.53 | +4% |
 DigitalOcean GPU Droplets | hyperscaler | $1.57 | +7% |
 Nebius | neocloud | $1.69 | +15% |
 OVHcloud | hyperscaler | $1.80 | +22% |
 Neysa | neocloud | $1.95 | +33% |
 Modal | neocloud | $1.95 | +33% |
 Cerebrium | neocloud | $1.95 | +33% |
 Lightning AI | neocloud | $2.14 | +46% |
 CoreWeave | neocloud | $2.25 | +53% |
 Vultr | hyperscaler | $2.30 | +56% |
 Qubrid | neocloud | $2.92 | +98% |
 Amazon Web Services | hyperscaler | $3.39 | +130% |
 Oracle Cloud | hyperscaler | $3.50 | +138% |
 Replicate | neocloud | $3.51 | +139% |
By provider country
Median of the providers headquartered in each country. Where the hardware sits can differ; this is who you contract with.
| Country | Providers | Median | Cheapest there |
|---|---|---|---|
| AEUAE | 1 | $0.80 | $0.79 at GPU.ai |
| ITItaly | 1 | $0.98 | $0.98 at Seeweb |
| GBUK | 1 | $1.29 | $1.29 at Civo |
| DEGermany | 1 | $1.44 | $1.19 at Lyceum |
| FRFrance | 2 | $1.50 | $1.20 at Koyeb |
| FIFinland | 1 | $1.53 | $1.45 at DataCrunch (Verda) |
| INIndia | 2 | $1.58 | $1.20 at E2E Networks |
| NLNetherlands | 1 | $1.69 | $1.55 at Nebius |
| USUSA | 17 | $1.95 | $0.69 at Vast.ai |
Spot and reserved
Questions
Where is the cheapest L40S right now?
On 2026-09-18 the cheapest on-demand L40S we track is $0.69 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai (L40S ×1 · offer 50582903, Czechia, CZ), about $500 a month per GPU. The market median across 30 providers is $1.47, so the cheapest listing is 53% below it.
Is spot cheaper?
Yes. The spot/interruptible median is $0.82 against $1.47 on-demand — 44% off — from 1 provider. The cheapest spot listing is $0.74 at Nebius. Spot can be taken away mid-job, which is why it never enters the headline median.
Why is the cheapest so far below the median?
Because the market is three markets. Marketplaces are independent hosts competing on price with consumer-grade uptime; neoclouds sell the GPU more directly; hyperscalers bundle CPU, RAM, network and an ecosystem into the instance price. The median sits where most providers sit; the cheapest listing is usually a marketplace host or a promotional neocloud rate. 15 of 30 providers are below the median today.
How often does this change?
Prices are re-read every six hours from each provider's own pricing and every snapshot is kept, so this page reflects the latest run and the history behind it. Recent cuts: Vast.ai -8.2% on 2026-09-18; io.net -5.6% on 2026-09-18; GPU.ai -15.7% on 2026-09-18.