Nvidia L4 vs Nvidia T4

The L4 is newer and has 50% more memory, with the same bandwidth. The T4 is typically cheaper.

At a glance

Memory

50% more on L4

L4: 24 GB

T4: 16 GB

Memory bandwidth

Identical

L4: 300 GB/s

T4: 300 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

58% cheaper on T4

L4: $0.32 /GPU/hr

T4: $0.13 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

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

Billing	L4	T4	Difference
On-demand	$0.89 /GPU/hr from $0.32	$0.64 /GPU/hr from $0.13	28% cheaper on T4
Reserved	$0.53 /GPU/hr from $0.32 (36 mo)	$0.43 /GPU/hr from $0.20 (36 mo)	19% cheaper on T4
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13	$0.26 /GPU/hr from $0.06

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: 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 T4 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	L4	T4	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	16 GB GDDR6	50% more on L4
Bandwidth	300 GB/s	300 GB/s	Identical
Bus width	192-bit	256-bit	33% wider on T4
Compute · dense
FP8	242 TFLOPS	Not supported	L4 only
FP16 / BF16	121 TFLOPS	65 TFLOPS	86% higher on L4
INT8	242 TOPS	130 TOPS	86% higher on L4
FP32	30.3 TFLOPS	8.1 TFLOPS	3.7x higher on L4
Platform
Interconnect	PCIe only	PCIe only
Board power	72 W	70 W	Within 5%
Released	Q1 2023	Q3 2018	4 years newer on L4
Precision
Supported formats	FP8FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

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

Source: L4 datasheet and T4 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	T4
Vast.ai USA	$0.32 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand
GPU.ai UAE	$0.32 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Scaleway France	$0.90 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Hexabyte Sweden	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Koyeb France	$0.70 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Zenlayer USA	--	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe
Theta EdgeCloud Distributed	--	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand
Hugging Face USA	--	$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand
Google Cloud USA	--	$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand
AWS USA	--	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand
Azure USA	--	$0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand
Cerebrium USA	--	$0.59 /GPU/hr On-demand