Cheapest Cloud GPUs Under $0.50 per Hour — May 2026
Cloud GPUs with on-demand pricing under $0.50 per hour — the most affordable end of the market.
NVIDIA
64 GB
A16
GDDR6
Ampere
$0.47/hr
NVIDIA
48 GB
A40
GDDR6
Ampere
$0.30/hr
NVIDIA
24 GB
A30
HBM2e
Ampere
$0.25/hr
NVIDIA
24 GB
L4
GDDR6
Ada Lovelace
$0.39/hr
NVIDIA
16 GB
V100
HBM2
Volta
$0.13/hr
NVIDIA
16 GB
T4
GDDR6
Turing
$0.08/hr
NVIDIA
16 GB
A2
GDDR6
Ampere
$0.22/hr
NVIDIA
8 GB
P4
GDDR5
Pascal
$0.16/hr
NVIDIA
48 GB
RTX 6000 Ada
GDDR6
Ada Lovelace
$0.47/hr
NVIDIA
48 GB
RTX A6000
GDDR6
Ampere
$0.30/hr
NVIDIA
32 GB
RTX 5090
GDDR7
Blackwell
$0.34/hr
NVIDIA
24 GB
RTX 4090
GDDR6X
Ada Lovelace
$0.28/hr
NVIDIA
24 GB
RTX 3090
GDDR6X
Ampere
$0.12/hr
A16 vs A40 vs A30 — top picks from this guide
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A16
Ampere · 64 GB
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A40
Ampere · 48 GB
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A30
Ampere · 24 GB
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| Specifications | |||
| Manufacturer | NVIDIA | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere |
| VRAM | 64 GB GDDR6 | 48 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB HBM2e |
| Memory Bandwidth | 800 GB/s | 696 GB/s | 933 GB/s |
| FP16 (Tensor) | 72 TFLOPS | 150 TFLOPS | 165 TFLOPS |
| FP32 | 18 TFLOPS | 37.4 TFLOPS | 10.3 TFLOPS |
| TDP | 250 W | 300 W | 165 W |
| Release Year | 2021 | 2020 | 2021 |
| Segment | Data center | Data center | Data center |
| Cloud Pricing | |||
| Cheapest On-Demand | $0.47/hr | $0.30/hr | $0.25/hr |
| Providers | 2 | 5 | 2 |
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