Lambda 1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe vs Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM
Prices checked
Two machines from Lambda's own catalogue, the nearest to each other on price. Lambda 1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe and Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM split the 4 rounds this table counts: the on-demand rate, the interruptible rate, the memory on a board and what a gigabyte of that memory costs. The weighting you pick decides the rest.
Lambda1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe
1x A100 40GB PCIe · 40 GB · 5¢/GB-hr
$1.99/GPU-hr$1.99/hr for the machine · $334 a week
Lambda8x NVIDIA A100 SXM
8x A100 40GB SXM · 40 GB each · 5¢/GB-hr
$1.99/GPU-hr$15.92/hr for the machine · $2,675 a week
Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)
$1.99/GPU-hr
$1.99/GPU-hr
Interruptible rate (lower wins)
not published
not published
Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)
5¢/GB-hr
5¢/GB-hr
VRAM per GPU
40 GB
40 GB
GPUs per instance
1x A100 40GB PCIe
8x A100 40GB SXM
vCPU
30
124
RAM
225 GB
1800 GB
Included storage
512 GB
5.8 TB
Regions listed
none listed
none listed
What a run costs on each
- An hour of the machine$1.99/hr vs $15.92/hr
- A day$48 vs $382
- A week$334 vs $2,675
- A week on spotno spot price vs no spot price
Lambda, then Lambda, at the published rate with no commitment discount.
Go further
Add a third or fourth machine, or change the weighting, in the tool.
What moved this week
1A100.40S.22V · 1x A100 SXM4 40GB
Verda (DataCrunch) · 1% dearer · A100 40GB SXM · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour
$1.61/GPU-hr $1.59/GPU-hr8A100.40S.176V · 8x A100 SXM4 40GB
Verda (DataCrunch) · 1% dearer · A100 40GB SXM · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour
$1.61/GPU-hr $1.59/GPU-hr
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Lambda 1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe or Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM?
- Neither: both rent at $1.99/GPU-hr, read on 1 Nov 2026.
- Which holds more GPU memory?
- Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM, at 320 GB across the instance against 40 GB. Per board it is 40 GB against 40 GB.
- What would a week cost?
- $334 for Lambda 1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe and $2,675 for Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM, 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?
- Lambda 1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe: disk 512 GB, no regions published, billed per minute. Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM: disk 5.8 TB, no regions published, billed per minute. 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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