Overview

Nvidia logo Nvidia H20

Export-compliant Hopper inference GPU with lower compute than H100.

High Performance Datacenter

Nvidia logo Nvidia L40

Data center GPU for combined AI inference and visualization.

High Performance Datacenter

Memory per GPU

2x more on H20
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96 GB HBM3
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48 GB GDDR6

Memory bandwidth

4.6x higher on H20
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4,000 GB/s
Nvidia logo L40
864 GB/s

GPU interconnect

Nvidia logo H20
PCIe only
Nvidia logo L40
PCIe only

Peak performance (FP16)

1.2x higher on L40
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148 TFLOPS
Nvidia logo L40
181 TFLOPS

Vendor peak figures. Sparsity and tensor-core conventions differ between vendors.

Precision support

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FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 FP64 INT8
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FP8 FP16 BF16 TF32 FP32 INT4 INT8

Highlighted formats are supported by only one of the two.

Architecture

Nvidia logo H20
Hopper
Nvidia logo L40
Ada Lovelace

Released

15 months newer on H20
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Q1 2024
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Q4 2022

Source: L40 datasheet.

Price comparison

Cheapest on-demand

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--
Nvidia logo L40
$0.45 / GPU / hr

Typical rate

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--
Nvidia logo L40
$1.00 / GPU / hr

Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.

Spot floor

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No spot listings
Nvidia logo L40
$0.43 / GPU / hr

Full price range

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Nvidia logo L40
$0.30 - $1.64 / GPU / hr

Lowest to highest listing per GPU-hour, across on-demand, spot, reserved and custom.

Providers listing it

Nvidia logo H20
None
Nvidia logo L40
12

Price, last 90 days

Nvidia logo H20
Not tracked yet
Nvidia logo L40
−8%

Change in the market-wide median, which moves when providers reprice and when cheaper or more expensive listings enter the market. Withheld where too few providers price the card, its history is too short, or its weekly print swings too hard to read as a trend.

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

Offers and availability

How this list works

Order

Each provider appears once per GPU. We pick the one configuration that speaks for that provider, and rank on it in this order:

  1. Availability: in stock, then waitlist, then not reported, then out of stock. A price you can act on outranks a cheaper one you cannot.
  2. Billing type: on-demand first, then reserved, then spot, then quote-only. On-demand leads because it is the only rate you can hold without committing to anything.
  3. Price: the lowest per-GPU hourly rate the provider lists, converted to USD.

The configuration we pick is chosen the same way, availability before billing before price. The rest of that provider's configurations are on the GPU's own page.

Ties sort alphabetically. Reserved rates are not separated by term length, so a three-year commitment can sit above a one-month one: the label beneath each price says which you are looking at. Providers who publish no rate are listed last within their group.

Transparency and funding

  • Ads and sponsors: Paid placements sit at the top of the list and are always labeled as sponsored content. Sponsorship never influences the organic ranking itself.
  • Affiliates: Affiliate links are marked. We may earn a commission if you click them, but commissions never affect the order.
  • Prices: Shown in USD, converted at daily reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. A month means 720 hours. How we estimate costs.

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Our data for Nvidia H20 was last updated on Aug. 21, 2026, and for Nvidia L40 on Aug. 21, 2026.