A100 80GB cloud GPU price comparison
| provider | $/gpu/hr | type | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lambda | $2.79 | on-demand | view → |
What does an A100 80GB cost to rent?
As of 2026-07-05, the cheapest A100 80GB rental is $2.79 per GPU per hour at Lambda. 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.
About the A100 80GB
The NVIDIA A100 80GB is the previous-generation training flagship. Prices have fallen steadily since the H100 launch, making it strong value for fine-tuning, inference of 30-70B models, and research workloads. It ships with 80 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.