Which is cheaper, Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB or Modal Nvidia L40S?

Modal Nvidia L40S, at $1.95/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 $1.95/hr against $2.10/hr.

Which holds more GPU memory?

Modal Nvidia L40S, at 48 GB across the instance against 40 GB. Per board it is 40 GB against 48 GB.

What would a week cost?

$353 for Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB and $328 for Modal Nvidia L40S, 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?

Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Modal Nvidia L40S: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Egress and tax are extra on both.

Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB vs Modal Nvidia L40S.

machine vs machine · prices as of 17 Sept 2026

Two machines from Modal's own catalogue, the nearest to each other on price. Modal Nvidia L40S takes 3 of 4 rounds against Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $1.95/GPU-hr against $2.10/GPU-hr.

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 ↗

Modalwins 3 rounds

Nvidia L40S

$1.95/GPU-hr

$1.95/hr for the machine · $328 a week

1x L40S · 48 GB each · $0.0407/GB-hr · Serverless

Modal ↗

Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$2.10/GPU-hr

$1.95/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

$0.0525/GB-hr

$0.0407/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

40 GB

48 GB

GPUs per instance

1x A100 40GB SXM

1x L40S

vCPU

not stated

RAM

not stated

Included storage

none · volumes extra

Regions listed

regions not stated

What a run costs on each

An hour of the machine$2.10/hr vs $1.95/hr
A day$50 vs $47
A week$353 vs $328
A week on spotnot published vs not published

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

Go further

open in the compare tool →every price for the A100 40GB SXM every price for the L40S

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Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB or Modal Nvidia L40S?: Modal Nvidia L40S, at $1.95/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 $1.95/hr against $2.10/hr.
Which holds more GPU memory?: Modal Nvidia L40S, at 48 GB across the instance against 40 GB. Per board it is 40 GB against 48 GB.
What would a week cost?: $353 for Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB and $328 for Modal Nvidia L40S, 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?: Modal Nvidia A100, 40 GB: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Modal Nvidia L40S: 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.