Nvidia L4 vs Nvidia M4000

The L4 is newer, with 3x the memory and 56% more bandwidth, and is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

3x more on L4

L4: 24 GB

M4000: 8 GB

Memory bandwidth

56% higher on L4

L4: 300 GB/s

M4000: 192 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

28% cheaper on L4

L4: $0.33 /GPU/hr

M4000: $0.45 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L4	M4000
On-demand	$0.88 /GPU/hr from $0.33	-- /GPU/hr from $0.45
Reserved	$0.51 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	No reserved listings
Spot	$0.41 /GPU/hr from $0.20	No spot listings

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 on-demand on the M4000: 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

L4 vs M4000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L4	M4000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR5	3x more on L4
Bandwidth	300 GB/s	192 GB/s	56% higher on L4
Bus width	192-bit	256-bit	33% wider on M4000
Compute · dense
FP8	242 TFLOPS	Not supported	L4 only
FP16 / BF16	121 TFLOPS	Not supported	L4 only
INT8	242 TOPS	Not supported	L4 only
FP32	30.3 TFLOPS	2.6 TFLOPS	12x higher on L4
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	72 W	120 W	67% higher on M4000
Released	Q1 2023	Q2 2015	8 years newer on L4
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP32

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

Source: L4 datasheet and M4000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. No provider we track offers both right now.

Provider	L4	M4000
Vast.ai USA	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
GPU.ai UAE	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Jarvislabs India	$0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
UpCloud Finland	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Scaleway France	$0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$1.23 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Paperspace USA	--	$0.45 /GPU/hr On-demand