Two Nvidia data center GPUs, one Ada Lovelace and one Pascal: 24 GB GDDR6 against 16 GB HBM2, 2.4x the memory bandwidth on the P100, and NVLink 160 GB/s on the P100 where the L4 is PCIe only.
At a glance
Updated 4 minutes ago- Memory
- 24 GB
- GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 300 GB/s
- From
- $0.31 /GPU/hr
- 19 providers
- Memory
- 16 GB
- HBM2
- Memory bandwidth
- 732 GB/s
- From
- $0.09 /GPU/hr
- 6 providers
Price comparison
Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour by billing type, and the median across providers.
| Billing | L4 | P100 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.31 | $0.09 | 3.3x more expensive on L4 |
| Spot | $0.13 | $0.08 | 40% cheaper on P100 |
| Reserved | $0.32 | $0.12 | 2.6x more expensive on L4 |
| Median | $0.90 | $1.42 | 37% cheaper on L4 |
Median: Median across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one.
Price history
L4 vs P100 price history
Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour
Specs comparison
| Spec | L4 | P100 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | |||
| Capacity | 24 GB GDDR6 | 16 GB HBM2 | 1.5x more on L4 |
| Bandwidth | 300 GB/s | 732 GB/s | 2.4x higher on P100 |
| Bus width | 192-bit | 4,096-bit | 21x wider on P100 |
| Compute · dense | |||
| FP8 | 242 TFLOPS | Not supported | L4 only |
| FP16 / BF16 | 121 TFLOPS | 18.7 TFLOPS | 6.5x higher on L4 |
| INT8 | 242 TOPS | Not supported | L4 only |
| FP32 | 30.3 TFLOPS | 9.3 TFLOPS | 3.3x higher on L4 |
| FP64 | Not supported | 4.7 TFLOPS | P100 only |
| Platform | |||
| Interconnect | PCIe only | NVLink 160 GB/s | NVLink on P100 only |
| Board power | 72 W | 250 W | 3.5x higher on P100 |
| Released | Q1 2023 | Q2 2016 | 7 years newer on L4 |
| Precision | |||
| Supported formats | FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8 | FP16FP32FP64 | |
Figures are for each model's headline configuration. Where a form factor carries a different number, it is named under the figure.
Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.
Source: L4 datasheet and P100 datasheet.
Where to rent them
Providers listing these GPUs, those with both first, so you can switch without moving clouds.
| Provider | L4 /GPU/hr | P100 /GPU/hr |
|---|---|---|
Vast.ai
|
On-Demand $0.31 | On-Demand $0.09 |
Scaleway
|
On-Demand $0.91 | On-Demand $1.42 |
GPU.ai
|
On-Demand $0.32 | -- |
Runpod
|
On-Demand $0.49 | -- |
UpCloud
|
On-Demand $0.69 | -- |
Sesterce
|
On-Demand $1.04 | -- |
Runcrate
|
On-Demand $1.05 | -- |
Hexabyte
|
On-Demand $0.42 | -- |
Oracle Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $1.27 |
Google Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $1.51 |
Alibaba Cloud
|
-- | On-Demand $1.55 |
Database Mart
|
-- | Reserved (24mo) $0.12 |
19 providers list the L4 and 6 the P100. Every listing is on the L4 page and the P100 page.
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Our data for Nvidia L4 was last updated on Sept. 7, 2026, and for Nvidia P100 on Sept. 7, 2026.