NVIDIA / Ada Lovelace
L4
| Provider / plan | Price / GPU-hour | Rental type | Terms & configuration | Last checked | Provider pricing link |
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| Vast.aiOn-demand offer 50457498 | $0.3222Lowest flexible rate | On-demandNo reservation | 1 GPU minimumSouth Korea, KRView detailsObserved marketplace offer, not a provider-wide list rate. Total hourly quote for one GPU with the API default disk allocation; bandwidth and additional storage can cost extra. Up to 5 cheapest matching offers per catalog GPU; availability can change.
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| Vast.aiOn-demand offer 49883396 | $0.3252 | On-demandNo reservation | 1 GPU minimumUtah, USView detailsObserved marketplace offer, not a provider-wide list rate. Total hourly quote for one GPU with the API default disk allocation; bandwidth and additional storage can cost extra. Up to 5 cheapest matching offers per catalog GPU; availability can change.
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| Vast.aiOn-demand offer 35835965 | $0.3348 | On-demandNo reservation | 1 GPU minimumCzechia, CZView detailsObserved marketplace offer, not a provider-wide list rate. Total hourly quote for one GPU with the API default disk allocation; bandwidth and additional storage can cost extra. Up to 5 cheapest matching offers per catalog GPU; availability can change.
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| Vast.aiOn-demand offer 24134627 | $0.3356 | On-demandNo reservation | 1 GPU minimumIreland, IEView detailsObserved marketplace offer, not a provider-wide list rate. Total hourly quote for one GPU with the API default disk allocation; bandwidth and additional storage can cost extra. Up to 5 cheapest matching offers per catalog GPU; availability can change.
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| Vast.aiOn-demand offer 49498406 | $0.3356 | On-demandNo reservation | 1 GPU minimumCzechia, CZView detailsObserved marketplace offer, not a provider-wide list rate. Total hourly quote for one GPU with the API default disk allocation; bandwidth and additional storage can cost extra. Up to 5 cheapest matching offers per catalog GPU; availability can change.
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| RunpodSecure Cloud Pods | $0.49 | On-demandNo reservation | 1 GPU minimumSee providerView detailsSecure Cloud Pods published GPU-hour rate. CPU/RAM allocation varies; storage/networking extra. Not live capacity.
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| ModalGPU Tasks | $0.7992GPU only · CPU/RAM extra | ServerlessActive GPU time | 1 GPU minimumSee providerView detailsGPU time only; CPU, RAM, storage, region and non-preemptible surcharges are extra.
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Prices are dated listings, not live availability. Compare minimum GPU counts and commitments. Storage, networking and taxes may add charges; serverless rates cover GPU time only.
L4 is a compact Ada accelerator with 24 GB of memory and a 72 W power envelope. It targets inference, video processing and graphics in space- and power-constrained servers. Its low board power does not by itself determine the cloud rental price.
CHOOSING THIS GPU
Is it right for your workload?
Low-profile, single-slot L4. Do not confuse it with the 48 GB L40 or L40S.
Best suited to
- Video inference and transcoding
- Small-to-medium model serving
- Power-sensitive inference deployments
Strengths
- 24 GB memory in a 72 W envelope
- FP8-capable Tensor hardware
- Dedicated AV1 video engines
Things to consider
- 300 GB/s memory bandwidth
- 24 GB limits model and KV-cache size
- Large distributed training needs careful platform comparison
HARDWARE DETAILS
Inside the GPU
- Manufacturer
- NVIDIA
- Architecture
- Ada Lovelace
- VRAM (GB)
- 24
- Memory type
- GDDR6
- Form factor
- PCIe
- Memory bandwidth (GB/s)
- 300
- Maximum board power (W)
- 72
- CUDA cores
- 7424
- Tensor cores
- 232 / 4th generation
- Ray tracing cores
- 58 / 3rd generation
- CUDA capability
- 8.9
- Memory ECC
- Supported
- Host interface
- PCIe Gen4 x16
- GPU interconnect
- Not verified for this edition
- Hardware partitioning (MIG)
- Not verified for this edition
- Cooling
- Passive; server airflow required
Hardware capabilities are not a guarantee of access in a cloud instance. Check the exact edition, GPU allocation and server topology in the rental offer.
MODEL MEMORY
Plan your model size
Start with an 8B-class model in a supported 4-bit format. FP16 8B weights alone are about 16 GB before runtime memory; reserve room for KV cache and activations. Adapter fine-tuning needs a separate training memory estimate.
| Example model class | Weight format | Raw weights ≈ | Minimum GPUs for weights only |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 8B ↗ | 4-bit | 4 GB | 1Runtime needs more memory |
| Llama 3.1 8B ↗ | FP16 | 16 GB | 1Runtime needs more memory |
| Qwen2.5 14B ↗ | 4-bit | 7 GB | 1Runtime needs more memory |
| Qwen2.5 32B ↗ | 4-bit | 16 GB | 1Runtime needs more memory |
| Llama 3.1 70B ↗ | 4-bit | 35 GB | 2Runtime needs more memory |
| Llama 3.1 70B ↗ | 8-bit | 70 GB | 3Runtime needs more memory |
| Llama 3.1 70B ↗ | FP16 | 140 GB | 6Runtime needs more memory |
Arithmetic lower bound: rounded parameter count × bits per weight ÷ 8, in decimal GB. Excludes quantization metadata, KV cache, activations, CUDA workspaces and training states. Actual model sizes differ from their rounded names. No context length, batch size or concurrency is guaranteed. GPU counts assume supported model sharding and can be higher in practice. Quantized checkpoints and compatible kernels are required for 4-bit/8-bit execution.
SOFTWARE & PERFORMANCE
Before you deploy
Software compatibility
Use an NVIDIA CUDA-enabled framework/container compatible with this GPU and the host driver. Check PyTorch build and inference-engine kernel requirements before deployment. vLLM documents NVIDIA compute capability 7.5+ as a baseline; support for each model and quantization method still needs checking.
Measured benchmarks
A reproducible, comparable application benchmark has not yet been recorded for this edition. Peak TFLOPS above are not measured tokens per second or image-generation speed.
Compare tests using the same model, precision, GPU count, engine version, input/output length and batch or concurrency. A provider’s server configuration can change the result.
COMPARE YOUR OPTIONS
Alternatives to consider
BUDGET YOUR RUN
GPU cost estimator
GPU compute only: hourly rate × billable hours × GPU count. CPU, RAM, storage, egress, taxes, billing increments and minimum terms may add charges. Serverless hours mean active GPU task time; spot capacity can be interrupted. Reserved commitments and quote-only offers are excluded from this simple hourly estimator.