Which is cheaper, RunPod L40 · Community Cloud or RunPod RTX 5090 · Community Cloud?

Neither: both rent at $0.690/GPU-hr, read on 17 Sept 2026.

Which holds more GPU memory?

RunPod L40 · Community Cloud, at 48 GB across the instance against 32 GB. Per board it is 48 GB against 32 GB.

What would a week cost?

$116 for RunPod L40 · Community Cloud and $116 for RunPod RTX 5090 · 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 L40 · Community Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. RunPod RTX 5090 · Community Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Egress and tax are extra on both.

RunPod L40 · Community Cloud vs RunPod RTX 5090 · 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 L40 · Community Cloud takes 2 of 4 rounds against RunPod RTX 5090 · Community Cloud. Both rent at $0.690/GPU-hr.

RunPodwins 2 rounds

L40 · Community Cloud

$0.690/GPU-hr

$0.69/hr for the machine · $116 a week

1x L40 · 48 GB each · $0.0144/GB-hr · Marketplace

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RunPod

RTX 5090 · Community Cloud

$0.690/GPU-hr

$0.69/hr for the machine · $116 a week

1x RTX 5090 · 32 GB each · $0.0216/GB-hr · Marketplace

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Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$0.690/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

$0.0144/GB-hr

$0.0216/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

48 GB

32 GB

GPUs per instance

1x L40

1x RTX 5090

vCPU

RAM

94 GB

35 GB

Included storage

none · volumes extra

Regions listed

regions not stated

What a run costs on each

An hour of the machine$0.69/hr vs $0.69/hr
A day$17 vs $17
A week$116 vs $116
A week on spotnot published vs not published

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

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Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, RunPod L40 · Community Cloud or RunPod RTX 5090 · Community Cloud?: Neither: both rent at $0.690/GPU-hr, read on 17 Sept 2026.
Which holds more GPU memory?: RunPod L40 · Community Cloud, at 48 GB across the instance against 32 GB. Per board it is 48 GB against 32 GB.
What would a week cost?: $116 for RunPod L40 · Community Cloud and $116 for RunPod RTX 5090 · 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 L40 · Community Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. RunPod RTX 5090 · 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.