Crusoe NVIDIA L40S vs RunPod L40S · Community Cloud
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The same L40S at two providers, so the board is identical and everything else is not. RunPod L40S · Community Cloud takes 2 of 4 rounds against Crusoe NVIDIA L40S. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $0.79/GPU-hr against $1.50/GPU-hr.
RunPodWins 2 roundsL40S · Community Cloud
1x L40S · 48 GB · 1.7¢/GB-hr
$0.79/GPU-hr$0.79/hr for the machine · $133 a weekMarketplace
Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)
$1.50/GPU-hr
$0.79/GPU-hr
Interruptible rate (lower wins)
not published
not published
Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)
3.1¢/GB-hr
1.7¢/GB-hr
VRAM per GPU
48 GB
48 GB
GPUs per instance
1x L40S
1x L40S
vCPU
not published
16
RAM
not published
94 GB
Included storage
none · volumes extra
none · volumes extra
Regions listed
none listed
none listed
What a run costs on each
- An hour of the machine$1.50/hr vs $0.79/hr
- A day$36 vs $19
- A week$252 vs $133
- A week on spotno spot price vs no spot price
Crusoe, then RunPod, at the published rate with no commitment discount.
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Add a third or fourth machine, or change the weighting, in the tool.
What moved this week
Verda (DataCrunch) · 1% dearer · L40S · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour
$1.90/GPU-hr $1.88/GPU-hr- Verda (DataCrunch) · 1% dearer ·
L40S · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour
$1.90/GPU-hr $1.88/GPU-hr - Verda (DataCrunch) · 1% dearer ·
L40S · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour
$1.90/GPU-hr $1.88/GPU-hr - Verda (DataCrunch) · 1% dearer ·
L40S · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour
$1.90/GPU-hr $1.88/GPU-hr
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Crusoe NVIDIA L40S or RunPod L40S · Community Cloud?
- RunPod L40S · Community Cloud, at $0.79/GPU-hr against $1.50/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 1 Nov 2026. On the whole machine that is $0.79/hr against $1.50/hr.
- Which holds more GPU memory?
- Both add up to 48 GB across the instance, at 48 GB and 48 GB a board.
- What would a week cost?
- $252 for Crusoe NVIDIA L40S and $133 for RunPod L40S · Community Cloud, at 168 hours of the whole machine at its published rate, with no commitment discount. Neither publishes an interruptible rate.
- What does the hourly price leave out?
- Crusoe NVIDIA L40S: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per hour. RunPod L40S · Community 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 1 Nov 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.
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