A100 40GB cloud GPU price comparison

What does an A100 40GB cost to rent?

As of 2026-07-05, the cheapest A100 40GB rental is $1.00 per GPU per hour at RunPod. Prices on this page are collected automatically from each provider's public pricing and refreshed daily, so the table above reflects the current market rather than a stale blog snapshot. The overall floor of $1.00/hr is a community offer, which can be interrupted; the cheapest regular on-demand price is $1.99/hr at Lambda.

About the A100 40GB

The A100 40GB suits inference and training of small-to-mid models. It is one of the cheapest ways to get data-centre-class reliability and software compatibility. It ships with 40 GB of VRAM per GPU.

On-demand vs community and spot pricing

On-demand instances run at a fixed rate until you stop them. Community and spot offers (marketplaces like Vast.ai, RunPod community cloud) are often dramatically cheaper but can be interrupted or vary in reliability between hosts. For long training runs, weigh the price gap against the cost of checkpoint restarts; for interruptible inference and experimentation, the cheaper tiers are usually the rational pick.