Which is cheaper, RunPod A40 · Community Cloud or RunPod RTX 4090 · Community Cloud?

RunPod RTX 4090 · Community Cloud, at $0.340/GPU-hr against $0.350/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $0.34/hr against $0.35/hr.

Which holds more GPU memory?

RunPod A40 · Community Cloud, at 48 GB across the instance against 24 GB. Per board it is 48 GB against 24 GB.

What would a week cost?

$59 for RunPod A40 · Community Cloud and $57 for RunPod RTX 4090 · 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?

RunPod A40 · Community Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. RunPod RTX 4090 · Community Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Egress and tax are extra on both.

RunPod A40 · Community Cloud vs RunPod RTX 4090 · Community Cloud.

machine vs machine · prices as of 17 Sept 2026

Two machines from RunPod's own catalogue, the nearest to each other on price. RunPod A40 · Community Cloud takes 2 of 4 rounds against RunPod RTX 4090 · Community Cloud. RunPod RTX 4090 · Community Cloud counters on price: $0.340/GPU-hr against $0.350/GPU-hr, for 24 GB a board instead of 48 GB.

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A40 · Community Cloud

$0.350/GPU-hr

$0.35/hr for the machine · $59 a week

1x A40 · 48 GB each · $0.0073/GB-hr · Marketplace

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RunPod

RTX 4090 · Community Cloud

$0.340/GPU-hr

$0.34/hr for the machine · $57 a week

1x RTX 4090 · 24 GB each · $0.0142/GB-hr · Marketplace

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Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$0.350/GPU-hr

$0.340/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

$0.0073/GB-hr

$0.0142/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

48 GB

24 GB

GPUs per instance

1x A40

1x RTX 4090

vCPU

RAM

50 GB

41 GB

Included storage

none · volumes extra

Regions listed

regions not stated

What a run costs on each

An hour of the machine$0.35/hr vs $0.34/hr
A day$8.40 vs $8.16
A week$59 vs $57
A week on spotnot published vs not published

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Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, RunPod A40 · Community Cloud or RunPod RTX 4090 · Community Cloud?: RunPod RTX 4090 · Community Cloud, at $0.340/GPU-hr against $0.350/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $0.34/hr against $0.35/hr.
Which holds more GPU memory?: RunPod A40 · Community Cloud, at 48 GB across the instance against 24 GB. Per board it is 48 GB against 24 GB.
What would a week cost?: $59 for RunPod A40 · Community Cloud and $57 for RunPod RTX 4090 · 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?: RunPod A40 · Community Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. RunPod RTX 4090 · 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 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.