Nvidia A4000 vs Nvidia L4

The A4000 has 49% more bandwidth, while the L4 is newer and has 50% more memory. The two typically cost about the same.

At a glance

Memory

50% more on L4

A4000: 16 GB

L4: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

49% higher on A4000

A4000: 448 GB/s

L4: 300 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

35% cheaper on A4000

A4000: $0.21 /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	A4000	L4	Difference
On-demand	$0.82 /GPU/hr from $0.21	$0.81 /GPU/hr from $0.33	Within 5%
Reserved	$0.25 /GPU/hr from $0.11	$0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	52% cheaper on A4000
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

A4000 vs L4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A4000	L4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	16 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6	50% more on L4
Bandwidth	448 GB/s	300 GB/s	49% higher on A4000
Bus width	256-bit	192-bit	33% wider on A4000
Compute · dense
FP8	Not supported	242 TFLOPS	L4 only
FP16 / BF16	76.7 TFLOPS	121 TFLOPS	58% higher on L4
INT8		242 TOPS
FP32	19.2 TFLOPS	30.3 TFLOPS	58% higher on L4
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	140 W	72 W	94% higher on A4000
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: A4000 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	A4000	L4
Runcrate USA	$1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	$1.23 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Runpod USA	On request Reserved	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand
Sesterce France	$0.88 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
TensorDock Distributed	$0.21 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Paperspace USA	$0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Hyperstack UK	$0.11 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Database Mart USA	$0.17 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Cirrascale USA	$0.28 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand
Jarvislabs India	--	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	--	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand
Hexabyte Sweden	--	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand
Leaseweb Netherlands	--	$0.43 /GPU/hr On-demand
Koyeb France	--	$0.70 /GPU/hr On-demand