The L4 is newer, with 50% more memory and 50% more bandwidth.
At a glance
Memory
50% more on L4
- A16
- 16 GB
- L4
- 24 GB
Memory bandwidth
50% higher on L4
- A16
- 200 GB/s
- L4
- 300 GB/s
Cheapest on-demand
- A16
- --
- L4
- $0.33 /GPU/hr
Price comparison
Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.
| Billing | A16 | L4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | Sold out | $0.86 /GPU/hr from $0.33 | |
| Reserved | No reserved listings | $0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo) | |
| Spot | No spot listings | -- /GPU/hr from $0.29 |
Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for spot on the L4: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Price history
A16 vs L4 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | A16 | L4 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 16 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6 | 50% more on L4 |
| Bandwidth | 200 GB/s | 300 GB/s | 50% higher on L4 |
| Bus width | 128-bit | 192-bit | 50% wider on L4 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | Not supported | 242 TFLOPS | L4 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 17.9 TFLOPS | 121 TFLOPS | 6.8x higher on L4 |
| INT8 | 35.9 TOPS | 242 TOPS | 6.7x higher on L4 |
| FP32 | 4.5 TFLOPS | 30.3 TFLOPS | 6.7x higher on L4 |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | PCIe only | |
| Released | Q2 2021 | Q1 2023 | 2 years newer on L4 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | |
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: A16 datasheet and L4 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.
| Provider | A16 | L4 |
|---|---|---|
Sesterce
France
|
$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Theta EdgeCloud
Distributed
|
-- | $0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand |
GPU.ai
UAE
|
-- | $0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Jarvislabs
India
|
-- | $0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Runpod
USA
|
-- | $0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Scaleway
France
|
-- | $0.88 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Runcrate
USA
|
-- | $1.23 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe |
Hexabyte
Sweden
|
-- | $0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand |
1 provider list the A16 and 21 the L4. Every listing is on the A16 page and the L4 page.
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Our data for Nvidia A16 was last updated on Sept. 14, 2026, and for Nvidia L4 on Sept. 14, 2026.