Which is cheaper, CoreWeave NVIDIA L40 or RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud?

RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud, at $0.820/GPU-hr against $1.25/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $0.82/hr against $10/hr.

Which holds more GPU memory?

CoreWeave NVIDIA L40, at 384 GB across the instance against 48 GB. Per board it is 48 GB against 48 GB.

What would a week cost?

$1,680 for CoreWeave NVIDIA L40 and $138 for RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud, at 168 hours of the whole machine at its published rate, with no commitment discount. Where a spot rate is published the same week costs less and the machine can be taken back mid-run.

What does the hourly price leave out?

CoreWeave NVIDIA L40: disk 7.7 TB, 2 regions listed, billed per hour. RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Egress and tax are extra on both.

CoreWeave NVIDIA L40 vs RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud.

machine vs machine · prices as of 17 Sept 2026

The same L40 at two providers, so the board is identical and everything else is not. RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud takes 2 of 4 rounds against CoreWeave NVIDIA L40. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $0.820/GPU-hr against $1.25/GPU-hr.

CoreWeave

NVIDIA L40

$1.25/GPU-hr

$10/hr for the machine · $1,680 a week · $0.784 spot

8x L40 · 48 GB each · $0.0260/GB-hr

CoreWeave ↗

RunPodwins 2 rounds

L40 · Secure Cloud

$0.820/GPU-hr

$0.82/hr for the machine · $138 a week

1x L40 · 48 GB each · $0.0171/GB-hr

RunPod ↗

Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$1.25/GPU-hr

$0.820/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

$0.784/GPU-hr

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

$0.0260/GB-hr

$0.0171/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

48 GB

GPUs per instance

8x L40

1x L40

vCPU

128

RAM

1024 GB

94 GB

Included storage

7.7 TB

none · volumes extra

Regions listed

2 regions

regions not stated

What a run costs on each

An hour of the machine$10/hr vs $0.82/hr
A day$240 vs $20
A week$1,680 vs $138
A week on spot$1,053 vs not published

CoreWeave then RunPod, at the published rate with no commitment discount

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Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, CoreWeave NVIDIA L40 or RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud?: RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud, at $0.820/GPU-hr against $1.25/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $0.82/hr against $10/hr.
Which holds more GPU memory?: CoreWeave NVIDIA L40, at 384 GB across the instance against 48 GB. Per board it is 48 GB against 48 GB.
What would a week cost?: $1,680 for CoreWeave NVIDIA L40 and $138 for RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud, at 168 hours of the whole machine at its published rate, with no commitment discount. Where a spot rate is published the same week costs less and the machine can be taken back mid-run.
What does the hourly price leave out?: CoreWeave NVIDIA L40: disk 7.7 TB, 2 regions listed, billed per hour. RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Egress and tax are extra on both.

Every rate is the on-demand price for one GPU for one hour, read 17 Sept 2026 from each provider's own page, so a node of eight is compared at what one of its GPUs costs. Storage, egress and tax are extra unless a row says otherwise, and reserved or committed rates are not indexed. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.