Nvidia B200 vs Nvidia L4

The B200 is newer, with 7.5x the memory and 26x the bandwidth. The L4 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

7.5x more on B200

B200: 180 GB

L4: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

26x higher on B200

B200: 7,700 GB/s

L4: 300 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

93% cheaper on L4

B200: $3.75 /GPU/hr

L4: $0.27 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	B200	L4	Difference
On-demand	$6.88 /GPU/hr from $3.75	$0.80 /GPU/hr from $0.27	88% cheaper on L4
Reserved	$5.35 /GPU/hr from $3.75	$0.51 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	90% cheaper on L4
Spot	$4.78 /GPU/hr from $4.18	$0.29 /GPU/hr from $0.20	94% cheaper on L4

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. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

B200 vs L4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	B200	L4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	180 GB HBM3e	24 GB GDDR6	7.5x more on B200
Bandwidth	7,700 GB/s	300 GB/s	26x higher on B200
Bus width		192-bit
Compute · dense
FP4	9,000 TFLOPS	Not supported	B200 only
FP8	4,500 TFLOPS	242 TFLOPS	19x higher on B200
FP16 / BF16	2,250 TFLOPS	121 TFLOPS	19x higher on B200
INT8	4,500 TOPS	242 TOPS	19x higher on B200
FP32	75 TFLOPS	30.3 TFLOPS	2.5x higher on B200
FP64	37 TFLOPS	Not supported	B200 only
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 1,800 GB/s	PCIe only	NVLink on B200 only
Board power	1,000 W	72 W	14x higher on B200
Released	Q1 2024	Q1 2023	12 months newer on B200
Precision
Supported formats	FP4FP6FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32FP64INT8	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: B200 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	B200	L4
Vast.ai USA	$6.25 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$7.99 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand
Runpod USA	$7.99 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand
Packet·ai USA	$3.75 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Lium Distributed	$5.50 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
EmpirioLabs AI USA	$11.00 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Spheron Singapore	$11.06 /GPU/hr On-demand SXM	--
GPUaaS USA	$7.00 /GPU/hr Custom	--
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand
Jarvislabs India	--	$0.44 /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