RunPod L40 · Community Cloud vs RunPod RTX 5090 · Community Cloud
Prices checked
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 $0.69/GPU-hr.
RunPodWins 2 roundsL40 · Community Cloud
1x L40 · 48 GB · 1.4¢/GB-hr
$0.69/GPU-hr$0.69/hr for the machine · $116 a weekMarketplace
RunPodRTX 5090 · Community Cloud
1x RTX 5090 · 32 GB · 2.2¢/GB-hr
$0.69/GPU-hr$0.69/hr for the machine · $116 a weekMarketplace
Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)
$0.69/GPU-hr
$0.69/GPU-hr
Interruptible rate (lower wins)
not published
not published
Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)
1.4¢/GB-hr
2.2¢/GB-hr
VRAM per GPU
48 GB
32 GB
GPUs per instance
1x L40
1x RTX 5090
vCPU
8
9
RAM
94 GB
35 GB
Included storage
none · volumes extra
none · volumes extra
Regions listed
none listed
none listed
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 spotno spot price vs no spot price
RunPod, then RunPod, 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
- $1.19/GPU-hr $0.99/GPU-hr
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, RunPod L40 · Community Cloud or RunPod RTX 5090 · Community Cloud?
- Neither: both rent at $0.69/GPU-hr, read on 1 Nov 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 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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