Which is cheaper, Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM or Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB?

Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM, at $1.99/GPU-hr against $2.10/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $15.92/hr against $2.10/hr.

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?

$2,675 for Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM and $353 for Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB, 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 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM: disk 5.8 TB, no regions published, billed per minute. Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Egress and tax are extra on both.

Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM vs Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB.

machine vs machine · prices as of 17 Sept 2026

The same A100 40GB SXM at two providers, so the board is identical and everything else is not. Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM takes 2 of 4 rounds against Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $1.99/GPU-hr against $2.10/GPU-hr.

Lambdawins 2 rounds

8x NVIDIA A100 SXM

$1.99/GPU-hr

$15.92/hr for the machine · $2,675 a week

8x A100 40GB SXM · 40 GB each · $0.0498/GB-hr

Lambda ↗

Modal

Nvidia A100, 40 GB

$2.10/GPU-hr

$2.10/hr for the machine · $353 a week

1x A100 40GB SXM · 40 GB each · $0.0525/GB-hr · Serverless

Modal ↗

Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$1.99/GPU-hr

$2.10/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

$0.0498/GB-hr

$0.0525/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

40 GB

GPUs per instance

8x A100 40GB SXM

1x A100 40GB SXM

vCPU

124

not stated

RAM

1800 GB

not stated

Included storage

5.8 TB

none · volumes extra

Regions listed

regions not stated

What a run costs on each

An hour of the machine$15.92/hr vs $2.10/hr
A day$382 vs $50
A week$2,675 vs $353
A week on spotnot published vs not published

Lambda then Modal, at the published rate with no commitment discount

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Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM or Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB?: Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM, at $1.99/GPU-hr against $2.10/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $15.92/hr against $2.10/hr.
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?: $2,675 for Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM and $353 for Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB, 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 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM: disk 5.8 TB, no regions published, billed per minute. Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB: 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.