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NVIDIA L4: specs, VRAM and rental prices
NVIDIA’s NVIDIA L4: 24 GB of GPU memory, rented from $0.80 per GPU-hour on demand (AWS). Specs from NVIDIA, prices as of Oct 25, 2026.
The L4 is a low-profile, single-slot data center GPU on NVIDIA’s Ada Lovelace architecture, announced in 2023. It has 24 GB of memory, a 72 W power limit and is aimed at video, AI inference and graphics work.
Prices were last checked Oct 25, 2026. A listing not re-checked for 7 days is greyed and left out of every lowest-price figure; after 14 days it is removed from the page.
NVIDIA L4 specifications
| Specification | L4 | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace | nvidia.com |
| GPU memory | 24 GB | nvidia.com |
| Memory bandwidth | 300 GB/s | nvidia.com |
| FP32 | 30.3 TFLOPS | nvidia.com |
| TF32 tensor (with sparsity) | 120 TFLOPS | nvidia.com |
| FP16 / BF16 tensor (with sparsity) | 242 TFLOPS | nvidia.com |
| FP8 tensor (with sparsity) | 485 TFLOPS | nvidia.com |
| Max thermal design power | 72 W | nvidia.com |
| Form factor | 1-slot low-profile PCIe | nvidia.com |
| Interconnect | PCIe Gen4 x16, 64 GB/s | nvidia.com |
NVIDIA marks the tensor figures as shown with sparsity and says specifications are one-half lower without sparsity. NVIDIA’s page does not name the memory type or list FP64. Not published on the pages cited here: Memory type; FP64 throughput; CUDA core count; Tensor core count.
Sources: NVIDIA L4 product page · L4 announcement (2023). Every figure above is copied from these NVIDIA pages; nothing is estimated.
L4 rental prices by provider
Lowest listed price by pricing type
| Pricing | $ per GPU-hour | Provider | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.80 | AWS | Oct 25, 2026 |
On-demand price by provider
Each provider’s lowest fresh on-demand listing, $ per GPU-hour.
Every listed L4 price
| Provider | Configuration | Pricing | $ per GPU-hour | Region | Checked | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RunPod Community Cloud | 24 GB each L4 |
Marketplace | $0.44 Listed $0.44/hr (L4, Community Cloud) |
— | runpod.io | |
| AWS | 1 GPU per instance · 24 GB each g6.xlarge |
On-demand | $0.80 Listed $0.80/hr per 1-GPU instance |
us-east-1 | aws.amazon.com | |
| AWS | 4 GPUs per instance · 24 GB each g6.12xlarge |
On-demand | $1.15 Listed $4.60/hr per 4-GPU instance |
us-east-1 | aws.amazon.com | |
| AWS | 8 GPUs per instance · 24 GB each g6.48xlarge |
On-demand | $1.67 Listed $13.35/hr per 8-GPU instance |
us-east-1 | aws.amazon.com |
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Compare the L4 with other GPUs
- L4 vs A100: specs side by side with the lowest listed rental price for each.
- L4 vs T4: specs side by side with the lowest listed rental price for each.
Price history
The history chart appears once there are two daily snapshots of an on-demand price. Tracking began Oct 15, 2026; the first snapshot has the lowest listed on-demand price at $0.80 per GPU-hour.
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How these prices are collected
- What counts
- Only prices a provider publishes on a public pricing page or in its public price list, opened by the Census on the day shown. A marketplace is listed under the same rule as every other provider: it must publish per-GPU-hour prices publicly, with no login, and its rows are shown with the type Marketplace. Quotes and “contact sales” rows are not listed, and neither are purchase prices.
- $ per GPU-hour
- The listed price per GPU-hour. Where a provider lists a price per instance, the Census divides it by the GPUs in that instance and shows the original figure under it. Nothing else is converted or estimated.
- Pricing types
- On-demand, spot (including tiers a provider calls preemptible or low-priority), reserved with the term the provider states, and marketplace. Reserved rows without a stated term are not listed. A marketplace row is the lowest per-GPU-hour price its public page shows for that GPU, which comes from third-party hosts and changes often. Marketplace rows are a separate type: they appear in the table, filters, downloads and feeds, but never in the “lowest on-demand” or “lowest spot” figures.
- Variants
- SXM, PCIe, NVL and similar versions are kept separate when the provider names them. A provider that does not name the variant is shown without one.
- Freshness
- Every listing carries the date it was last confirmed, and the daily run re-opens each one. If a listing goes 7 days without a re-check it stays on the page greyed, labelled with the date it was last confirmed, and drops out of the “lowest” figures and the calculator’s default results. At 14 days without a re-check it is taken off the site; the daily history still holds it.
- History
- Each daily run saves a snapshot, so the model pages can chart the lowest listed on-demand price over time and the change log can show what moved. History began Oct 15, 2026.
- Differences between providers
- Listed prices are not like for like: regions, minimum instance sizes, networking, storage, commitments and availability differ and are not priced here. Check the provider before relying on a figure.
Providers checked but not listed
- Google Cloud: The compute pricing pages (cloud.google.com/compute/gpus-pricing and vm-instance-pricing) showed no GPU prices when opened.
- Vast.ai: Its pricing page loads live "from" prices from a public JSON file whose terms allow display and citation with attribution but require a data license for bulk collection, redistribution or use in any index, benchmark or derivative product. The Census republishes prices as open data, so it does not list Vast.ai without that license.
- Voltage Park: Its pricing pages say "Contact for pricing" for every GPU; one homepage line says "Starting at $1.99/hr" without a GPU model or unit.
L4: common questions
How much VRAM does the L4 have?
NVIDIA lists 24 GB of GPU memory for the NVIDIA L4, with memory bandwidth of 300 GB/s. The specification table on this page shows each figure with the page it came from.
How much power does the L4 use?
NVIDIA lists the NVIDIA L4 at 72 W.
How much does it cost to rent an L4 per hour?
The lowest listed on-demand price among listings checked in the last 7 days is $0.80 per GPU-hour at AWS, checked Oct 25, 2026. 4 fresh listings from 2 providers are shown in the table above, including spot, reserved and marketplace prices.
Which providers list L4 prices?
RunPod Community Cloud, AWS.
Which architecture is the L4 built on, and when was it announced?
The NVIDIA L4 uses the Ada Lovelace architecture and was announced or launched in 2023, according to the NVIDIA page cited in the specifications.
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Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Figures may change as records are updated — include the date you retrieved them.
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