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Nvidia A40 cloud rental prices

Name: Nvidia A40 cloud GPU rental
Brand: Nvidia
Availability: InStock

4 providers list the Nvidia A40, 2 have it in stock. Prices run from $0.47 to $1.86 per GPU hour — the same card, 4.0x apart.

Ampere 48 GB VRAM Q4 2020 25 configurations

LIVE Prices and stock checked 1 minute ago November 4, 2026 UTC

Cheapest in stock

$0.47

Vast.ai

Median

$0.84

across 4 providers

Most expensive

$1.86

same card, 4.0x the price

You overpay by

45%

if you take the median instead of the floor

Providers

Every provider renting the Nvidia A40

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Billing:

On-demandfrom $0.47/hr2 providers in stockPay as you go, stop any time.Spotfrom $0.16/hr1 provider in stockCheaper, but the provider can take the machine back.Reservednone listedPrepay a term for the lowest hourly rate.

Providers renting the Nvidia A40, in stock first, then cheapest first
Provider	Country	Configs	Scale	From	Stock	Days in stock	Grab
Vast.ai	United States of America	2	2x-4x	$0.47 per sec	In stock	55/55	Grab
Vultr	United States of America	18	1x-4x	$1.86	In stock	41/60	Grab
Runpod	United States of America	1	1x-1x	$0.59 per sec	Not reported	53/54	Grab
Crusoe	United States of America	4	1x-8x	$1.10	Out of stock	0/60	Grab

In stock first, then cheapest. Stock is what the provider reported at our last check. One GPU for a month (730h) at $0.47: $341.

Price history

Price trend

Cheapest Nvidia A40 rate has fallen 23.0% since Sep 6 — $0.35 → $0.27/GPU/hr.

$0.270 /GPU/hr · Nov 4

One point per day: the lowest listed $/GPU/hr across every provider we track, captured daily. 432 offers in the latest snapshot.

Configurations

All 25 configurations

In stock only25 of 25 configurations

Nvidia A40 configurations from every provider
Configuration	Provider	Region	VRAM	vCPU	RAM	Per GPU/hr	Total/hr	Stock
2x A40SpotVast.ai	Vast.ai	BE	90 GB	128	1002 GB	$0.16per sec	$0.32	In stock
4x A40Vast.ai	Vast.ai	BE	180 GB	256	2004 GB	$0.47per sec	$1.87	In stock
1x A40Vultr	Vultr	losangeles-usa-1	48 GB	24	120 GB	$1.86	$1.86	In stock
1x A40Runpod	Runpod	—	48 GB	—	—	$0.59per sec	$0.59	Not reported
1x A40Crusoe	Crusoe	fairview-usa-1	48 GB	6	60 GB	$1.10	$1.10	Out of stock
4x A40Crusoe	Crusoe	fairview-usa-1	192 GB	24	240 GB	$1.10	$4.40	Out of stock
2x A40Crusoe	Crusoe	fairview-usa-1	96 GB	12	120 GB	$1.10	$2.20	Out of stock
8x A40Crusoe	Crusoe	fairview-usa-1	384 GB	48	480 GB	$1.10	$8.80	Out of stock
1x A40Vultr	Vultr	frankfurt-germany-6	48 GB	24	120 GB	$1.86	$1.86	Out of stock
1x A40Vultr	Vultr	tokyo-japan-2	48 GB	24	120 GB	$1.86	$1.86	Out of stock
1x A40Vultr	Vultr	sanjose-usa-1	48 GB	24	120 GB	$1.86	$1.86	Out of stock
1x A40Vultr	Vultr	sydney-australia-1	48 GB	24	120 GB	$1.86	$1.86	Out of stock
1x A40Vultr	Vultr	bangalore-india-1	48 GB	24	120 GB	$1.86	$1.86	Out of stock
1x A40Vultr	Vultr	london-uk-1	48 GB	24	120 GB	$1.86	$1.86	Out of stock
1x A40Vultr	Vultr	singapore-singapore-1	48 GB	24	120 GB	$1.86	$1.86	Out of stock
1x A40Vultr	Vultr	newark-usa-1	48 GB	24	120 GB	$1.86	$1.86	Out of stock
4x A40Vultr	Vultr	bangalore-india-1	192 GB	96	480 GB	$1.86	$7.44	Out of stock
4x A40Vultr	Vultr	tokyo-japan-2	192 GB	96	480 GB	$1.86	$7.44	Out of stock
4x A40Vultr	Vultr	sanjose-usa-1	192 GB	96	480 GB	$1.86	$7.44	Out of stock
4x A40Vultr	Vultr	london-uk-1	192 GB	96	480 GB	$1.86	$7.44	Out of stock
4x A40Vultr	Vultr	newark-usa-1	192 GB	96	480 GB	$1.86	$7.44	Out of stock
4x A40Vultr	Vultr	frankfurt-germany-6	192 GB	96	480 GB	$1.86	$7.44	Out of stock
4x A40Vultr	Vultr	sydney-australia-1	192 GB	96	480 GB	$1.86	$7.44	Out of stock
4x A40Vultr	Vultr	losangeles-usa-1	192 GB	96	480 GB	$1.86	$7.44	Out of stock
4x A40Vultr	Vultr	singapore-singapore-1	192 GB	96	480 GB	$1.86	$7.44	Out of stock

Model fit

What fits in 48 GB

The question behind most rentals: will the model load. Sized against one Nvidia A40.

VRAM required to serve open-weight LLMs on a Nvidia A40, by quantization precision
Model	16-bit	8-bit	4-bit
DeepSeek-V3 DeepSeek · 671B params · 37B active	1,610 GB 34× · 22 GB free	805 GB 17× · 11 GB free	403 GB 9× · 29 GB free
Llama 3.1 405B Meta · 405B params	972 GB 21× · 36 GB free	486 GB 11× · 42 GB free	243 GB 6× · 45 GB free
Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba · 235B params · 22B active	564 GB 12× · 12 GB free	282 GB 6× · 6 GB free	141 GB 3× · 3 GB free
Mixtral 8x22B Mistral · 141B params · 39B active	338 GB 8× · 46 GB free	169 GB 4× · 23 GB free	85 GB 2× · 11 GB free
Mistral Large 2 Mistral · 123B params	295 GB 7× · 41 GB free	148 GB 4× · 44 GB free	74 GB 2× · 22 GB free
gpt-oss-120b OpenAI · 117B params · 5.1B active	281 GB 6× · 7 GB free	140 GB 3× · 4 GB free	70 GB 2× · 26 GB free
Qwen2.5 72B Alibaba · 72.7B params	174 GB 4× · 18 GB free	87 GB 2× · 9 GB free	44 GB 1× · 4 GB free
Llama 3.3 70B Meta · 70.6B params	169 GB 4× · 23 GB free	85 GB 2× · 11 GB free	42 GB 1× · 6 GB free
Qwen3 32B Alibaba · 32.8B params	79 GB 2× · 17 GB free	39 GB 1× · 9 GB free	20 GB 1× · 28 GB free
Gemma 2 27B Google · 27.2B params	65 GB 2× · 31 GB free	33 GB 1× · 15 GB free	16 GB 1× · 32 GB free
Mistral Small 3 Mistral · 24B params	58 GB 2× · 38 GB free	29 GB 1× · 19 GB free	14 GB 1× · 34 GB free
Llama 3.1 8B Meta · 8B params	19 GB 1× · 29 GB free	10 GB 1× · 38 GB free	5 GB 1× · 43 GB free

Required memory is weights plus 20% for KV cache and runtime at short context; long contexts and large batches need more. Cells tinted green fit on a single Nvidia A40.

Specifications

Nvidia A40 specifications

Nvidia A40 hardware specifications
Architecture	Ampere
Memory per GPU	48 GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth	696 GB/s
Release date	Q4 2020
FP16 / BF16 compute rate	149.7 TFLOPS (dense), 299.4 with sparsity
INT8 compute rate	299.3 TOPS (dense), 598.6 with sparsity
Process node	Samsung 8N
Board power	300 W

Alternatives

Every provider renting the Nvidia A40

Price trend

All 25 configurations

What fits in 48 GB

Nvidia A40 specifications

Alternatives to the Nvidia A40