Cheapest on-demand NVIDIA A100 40GB (40 GB) on 2026-10-10 14:06 UTC: $0.401 per GPU-hour on Vast.ai. Prices from 3 providers, checked every hour.
What can I run on it? Open the calculator →| Provider | Per GPU-hour | 1 GPU, per month | Rent |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vast.ai | $0.401 | $292.73 | Rent on Vast.ai (opens in a new tab) → |
| Verda | $1.37 | $1,002.29 | Rent on Verda (opens in a new tab) → |
| Microsoft Azure | $3.40 | $2,482.00 | Rent on Microsoft Azure (opens in a new tab) → |
On-demand, per GPU, checked every hour. Monthly = 730 hours. Some links are affiliate links: StudioTV may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you.
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With 4-bit weights and an 8K-token context, a single NVIDIA A100 40GB runs: Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B, Qwen3 32B, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B, Gemma 4 31B, Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B, JEV 27B VL, Qwen3.8 27B, Clef, Gemma 4 26B-A4B, Mistral Small 3.2 24B, LFM2 24B-A2B, gpt-oss 20B, Mellum2.1 12B-A2.5B, Gemma 4 12B, Humanizer, Ornith 1.5 9B, Qwen3.5 9B, Clef Flash, LFM2.5 8B-A1B, Llama 3.1 8B, Qwen3.5 4B, LightOnOCR-3 4B, Spark-X2.5 4B, D1 3B.
On 2026-10-10, the cheapest on-demand NVIDIA A100 40GB costs $0.401 per GPU-hour on Vast.ai; across 3 providers prices range from $0.401 to $3.40. An 8-GPU server costs about $3.21 per hour, and one GPU running all month about $292.73.
Vast.ai at $0.401 per hour on 2026-10-10. Marketplace prices (Vast.ai) depend on the host and move within the day; the history on this page shows how they evolve.
With 4-bit weights and an 8K-token context: Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B, Qwen3 32B, Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B, Gemma 4 31B, Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B, JEV 27B VL, Qwen3.8 27B, Clef, Gemma 4 26B-A4B, Mistral Small 3.2 24B, LFM2 24B-A2B, gpt-oss 20B, Mellum2.1 12B-A2.5B, Gemma 4 12B, Humanizer, Ornith 1.5 9B, Qwen3.5 9B, Clef Flash, LFM2.5 8B-A1B, Llama 3.1 8B, Qwen3.5 4B, LightOnOCR-3 4B, Spark-X2.5 4B, D1 3B. Larger models need several GPUs; the LLM VRAM calculator sizes them.
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