What discount can I expect on NVIDIA L40S with spot or reserved pricing?
💡 Answer
Expect NVIDIA L40S cloud price to begins at $0.55 per hour on-demand. According to our April 21, 2026 snapshot, the market's lowest-priced on-demand option is Vast.ai, while RunPod offers the lowest spot rate at $0.79 per hour — a up to 60% saving for interruption-tolerant jobs. Reserved contracts add another ~up to 40% discount for multi-month bookings.
Typical one-month on-demand bills run into four figures at full utilization, which is why production inference services usually migrate to reserved and experimental work stays on-demand or spot.
Top cloud providers offering NVIDIA L40S: Vast.ai (from $0.55/hr), Novita AI, and Latitude.sh. Start comparing live rates.
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Vast.ai vs Novita AI vs Latitude.sh vs RunPod vs Massed Compute vs DigitalOcean - GPU Provider Comparison (April 2026)
Side-by-side comparison of Vast.ai vs Novita AI vs Latitude.sh vs RunPod vs Massed Compute vs DigitalOcean. Quickly compare GPU models, hourly pricing, spot instances, billing granularity, VRAM, regions, developer tools, Kubernetes support, and compliance to narrow down your cloud GPU provider shortlist. Data updated April 2026.
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Vast.ai
Instant GPUs. Transparent Pricing.
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Novita AI
AI & Agent Cloud platform with 200+ model APIs, GPU instances, and serverless inference at scale.
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Latitude.sh
Bare metal GPU cloud across 23 global locations
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RunPod
The cloud built for AI — deploy and scale GPU workloads from serverless inference to instant multi-node clusters on demand.
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Massed Compute
GPU cloud with direct engineer support
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DigitalOcean
Simple, scalable GPU cloud for AI/ML
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| Overview | ||||||
| Trustpilot Rating | 4.4 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 0 | 4.6 |
| Headquarters | United States | United States | Brazil | United States | United States | United States |
| Provider Type | GPU Marketplace | GPU-Focused | Bare Metal | GPU-Focused | GPU-Focused | N/A |
| Best For | AI training inference fine-tuning Stable Diffusion batch processing research LLM serving generative AI | AI training inference fine-tuning generative AI research LLM serving Stable Diffusion | AI training inference bare metal GPU fine-tuning research dedicated workloads generative AI | AI training inference fine-tuning Stable Diffusion batch processing rendering research LLM serving generative AI | AI training inference VFX rendering generative AI fine-tuning HPC Stable Diffusion research | AI training inference fine-tuning LLM deployment LLM serving computer vision startups generative AI research |
| GPU Hardware | ||||||
| GPU Models | B200 H200 H100 SXM H100 NVL A100 SXM A100 PCIe RTX 5090 RTX 5080 RTX 5070 Ti RTX 6000 Pro RTX 6000 Ada RTX 4500 Ada RTX A6000 RTX A5000 RTX A4000 L40S L40 A40 A10 RTX 4090 RTX 4080 RTX 4070 Ti RTX 4070 RTX 4060 Ti RTX 4060 RTX 3090 Ti RTX 3090 RTX 3080 Ti RTX 3080 RTX 3070 Ti RTX 3070 Tesla V100 Tesla T4 A2 GTX 1080 | H100 SXM A100 SXM L40S RTX 4090 RTX 6000 Ada RTX 5090 RTX 3090 | A30 RTX A5000 RTX A6000 L40S RTX 6000 Ada A100 SXM H100 SXM GH200 RTX PRO 6000 | B300 B200 H200 H100 SXM H100 PCIe H100 NVL MI300X A100 SXM A100 PCIe RTX 5090 RTX PRO 6000 L40S L40 RTX 6000 Ada RTX 5000 Ada RTX A6000 RTX A5000 RTX 4090 RTX 4080 SUPER RTX 4080 RTX 4070 Ti RTX 3090 Ti RTX 3090 RTX 3080 Ti RTX 3080 RTX 3070 A40 A30 A2 L4 | A30 RTX A5000 RTX A6000 L40S A100 SXM H100 PCIe H100 SXM H100 NVL RTX PRO 6000 H200 NVL | RTX 4000 Ada RTX 6000 Ada L40S MI300X H100 SXM H200 |
| Max VRAM (GB) | 192 | 80 | 96 | 288 | 141 | 192 |
| Max GPUs/Instance | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| Interconnect | NVLink, InfiniBand | NVLink | NVLink | NVLink | NVLink | NVLink |
| Pricing | ||||||
| Starting Price ($/hr) | $0.06/hr | $0.11/hr | $0.35/hr | $0.06/hr | $0.35/hr | $0.76/hr |
| Billing Granularity | Per-second | Per-second | Per-hour | Per-second | Per-minute | Per-second |
| Spot/Preemptible | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| Reserved Discounts | Up to 50% (1-6 month reserved) | N/A | N/A | 15-29% (1-month to 1-year plans) | N/A | N/A |
| Free Credits | Small test credit on signup | Up to $10,000 for startups | $200 via referral program | $5-$500 bonus after first $10 spend | None | $200 free credit for 60 days |
| Egress Fees | Varies by host ($/TB) | None (Free) | None | None (Free) | None | None (included in plan) |
| Storage | Varies by host ($/GB/hr, charged while instance exists) | Container disk (60GB free), volume disk, network volumes | Local NVMe included (up to 4x 3.8TB), Block Storage $0.10/GB/mo, Filesystem Storage $0.05/GB/mo | Container/Volume ($0.10/GB/mo), Idle Volume ($0.20/GB/mo), Network Storage ($0.07/GB/mo 1TB) | Local NVMe included with instances | 500-720 GiB NVMe boot (included), 5 TiB NVMe scratch on larger configs, Volumes at $0.10/GiB/mo |
| Infrastructure | ||||||
| Regions | 500+ locations, 40+ data centers | US, EU, APAC, South America, Africa, Middle East (20+ locations) | 23 locations: US (8 cities), LATAM (5), Europe (5), APAC (4), Mexico City. GPU in Dallas, Frankfurt, Sydney, Tokyo | 31 global regions | United States (Tier III data centers) | New York (NYC2), Toronto (TOR1), Atlanta (ATL1), Richmond (RIC1), Amsterdam (AMS3) |
| Uptime SLA | No formal SLA (host reliability scores visible) | 99.9% | 99.9% | 99.99% | Tier III (99.98% design) | 99% |
| Developer Experience | ||||||
| Frameworks | PyTorch TensorFlow CUDA vLLM ComfyUI | PyTorch TensorFlow CUDA cuDNN TensorRT | ML-optimized images PyTorch TensorFlow (user-installed) CUDA | PyTorch TensorFlow JAX ONNX CUDA | PyTorch TensorFlow CUDA cuDNN ComfyUI pre-configured ML templates | PyTorch TensorFlow Jupyter Miniconda CUDA ROCm Hugging Face |
| Docker Support | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SSH Access | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Jupyter Notebooks | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| API / CLI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Setup Time | Seconds | N/A | Seconds | Instant | Minutes | Minutes |
| Kubernetes Support | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Business Terms | ||||||
| Min Commitment | None | None | None | None | None | None |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type 2 HIPAA GDPR CCPA | SOC 2 | Single-tenant isolation DPA available | SOC 2 Type II | SOC 2 Type II HIPAA | SOC 2 Type II SOC 3 HIPAA (with BAA) CSA STAR Level 1 |
Vast.ai
Novita AI
Latitude.sh
RunPod
Massed Compute
DigitalOcean