Which is cheaper, RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud or RunPod L40S · Community Cloud?

RunPod L40S · Community Cloud, at $0.790/GPU-hr against $0.820/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $0.79/hr against $0.82/hr.

Which holds more GPU memory?

Both add up to 48 GB across the instance, at 48 GB and 48 GB a board.

What would a week cost?

$138 for RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud and $133 for RunPod L40S · 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 · Secure Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. RunPod L40S · Community Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Egress and tax are extra on both.

RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud vs RunPod L40S · 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 L40S · Community Cloud takes 2 of 4 rounds against RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $0.790/GPU-hr against $0.820/GPU-hr.

RunPod

L40 · Secure Cloud

$0.820/GPU-hr

$0.82/hr for the machine · $138 a week

1x L40 · 48 GB each · $0.0171/GB-hr

RunPod ↗

RunPodwins 2 rounds

L40S · Community Cloud

$0.790/GPU-hr

$0.79/hr for the machine · $133 a week

1x L40S · 48 GB each · $0.0165/GB-hr · Marketplace

RunPod ↗

Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$0.820/GPU-hr

$0.790/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

$0.0171/GB-hr

$0.0165/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

48 GB

GPUs per instance

1x L40

1x L40S

vCPU

RAM

94 GB

Included storage

none · volumes extra

Regions listed

regions not stated

What a run costs on each

An hour of the machine$0.82/hr vs $0.79/hr
A day$20 vs $19
A week$138 vs $133
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 · Secure Cloud or RunPod L40S · Community Cloud?: RunPod L40S · Community Cloud, at $0.790/GPU-hr against $0.820/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $0.79/hr against $0.82/hr.
Which holds more GPU memory?: Both add up to 48 GB across the instance, at 48 GB and 48 GB a board.
What would a week cost?: $138 for RunPod L40 · Secure Cloud and $133 for RunPod L40S · 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 · Secure Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. RunPod L40S · 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.