The P100 has 2.4x the bandwidth, while the L4 is newer and has 50% more memory. The L4 is typically cheaper.
At a glance
Memory
50% more on L4
- L4
- 24 GB
- P100
- 16 GB
Memory bandwidth
2.4x higher on P100
- L4
- 300 GB/s
- P100
- 732 GB/s
Cheapest on-demand
75% cheaper on L4
- L4
- $0.33 /GPU/hr
- P100
- $1.27 /GPU/hr
Price comparison
Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.
| Billing | L4 | P100 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.86 /GPU/hr from $0.33 | $1.51 /GPU/hr from $1.27 | 43% cheaper on L4 |
| Reserved | $0.52 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo) | $1.04 /GPU/hr from $0.22 (24 mo) | 50% cheaper on L4 |
| Spot | -- /GPU/hr from $0.29 | -- /GPU/hr from $0.63 |
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 and spot on the P100: 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 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 | 50% 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 that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.
| Provider | L4 | P100 |
|---|---|---|
Scaleway
France
|
$0.88 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.37 /GPU/hr On-demand |
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 | -- |
Runpod
USA
|
$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
Sesterce
France
|
$1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
Runcrate
USA
|
$1.23 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe | -- |
Hexabyte
Sweden
|
$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- |
Oracle Cloud
USA
|
-- | $1.27 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Google Cloud
USA
|
-- | $1.51 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Alibaba Cloud
China
|
-- | $1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand |
Database Mart
USA
|
-- | $0.22 /GPU/hr Reserved |
21 providers list the L4 and 5 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. 14, 2026, and for Nvidia P100 on Sept. 14, 2026.