Nvidia A30 vs Nvidia L4

The A30 has 3.1x the bandwidth, with the same 24 GB of memory.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

A30: 24 GB

L4: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

3.1x higher on A30

A30: 933 GB/s

L4: 300 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

21% cheaper on L4

A30: $0.41 /GPU/hr

L4: $0.33 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	A30	L4	Difference
On-demand	$0.68 /GPU/hr from $0.41	$0.87 /GPU/hr from $0.33	22% cheaper on A30
Reserved	$0.57 /GPU/hr from $0.38 (12 mo)	$0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	9% cheaper on L4
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.29	$0.53 /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 A30: 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

A30 vs L4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A30	L4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB HBM2	24 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	933 GB/s	300 GB/s	3.1x higher on A30
Bus width		192-bit
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	242 TFLOPS	L4 only
FP16 / BF16	165 TFLOPS	121 TFLOPS	36% higher on A30
INT8	330 TOPS	242 TOPS	36% higher on A30
FP32	10.3 TFLOPS	30.3 TFLOPS	2.9x higher on L4
FP64	5.2 TFLOPS	Not supported	A30 only
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	165 W	72 W	2.3x higher on A30
Released	Q2 2021	Q1 2023	2 years newer on L4
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT4INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: A30 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	A30	L4
Jarvislabs India	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	$0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand
Leafcloud Netherlands	$0.68 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$0.74 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Leaseweb Netherlands	$0.45 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
AceCloud India	$0.67 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Massed Compute USA	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	--	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand
UpCloud Finland	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand
Scaleway France	--	$0.88 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runcrate USA	--	$1.23 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe