Crusoe NVIDIA L40S vs RunPod L40S · Secure Cloud.
machine vs machine · prices as of
The same L40S at two providers, so the board is identical and everything else is not. RunPod L40S · Secure Cloud takes 2 of 4 rounds against Crusoe NVIDIA L40S. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $1.09/GPU-hr against $1.50/GPU-hr.
CrusoeNVIDIA L40S
$1.50/GPU-hr
$1.50/hr for the machine · $252 a week
1x L40S · 48 GB each · $0.0313/GB-hr
RunPodwins 2 roundsL40S · Secure Cloud
$1.09/GPU-hr
$1.09/hr for the machine · $183 a week
1x L40S · 48 GB each · $0.0227/GB-hr
Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)
$1.50/GPU-hr
$1.09/GPU-hr
Interruptible rate (lower wins)
not published
not published
Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)
$0.0313/GB-hr
$0.0227/GB-hr
VRAM per GPU
48 GB
48 GB
GPUs per instance
1x L40S
1x L40S
vCPU
not stated
16
RAM
not stated
94 GB
Included storage
none · volumes extra
none · volumes extra
Regions listed
regions not stated
regions not stated
What a run costs on each
- An hour of the machine$1.50/hr vs $1.09/hr
- A day$36 vs $26
- A week$252 vs $183
- A week on spotnot published vs not published
Crusoe then RunPod, at the published rate with no commitment discount
Go further
Add a third or fourth machine, or switch the weighting, in the tool.
What moved in the last seven days
- 1L40S.20V · 1x L40S 48GB
Verda (DataCrunch)L40S · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour$1.50/GPU-hr $1.51/GPU-hr1% dearer · - 2L40S.40V · 2x L40S 48GBVerda (DataCrunch)L40S · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour$1.50/GPU-hr $1.51/GPU-hr1% dearer ·
- 4L40S.80V · 4x L40S 48GBVerda (DataCrunch)L40S · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour$1.50/GPU-hr $1.51/GPU-hr1% dearer ·
- 8L40S.160V · 8x L40S 48GBVerda (DataCrunch)L40S · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour$1.50/GPU-hr $1.51/GPU-hr1% dearer ·
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Crusoe NVIDIA L40S or RunPod L40S · Secure Cloud?
- RunPod L40S · Secure Cloud, at $1.09/GPU-hr against $1.50/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 25 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $1.09/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 $183 for RunPod L40S · Secure 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 · 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 25 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.