Datacenter · Ampere · launched 2020 · prices checked 2026-09-03
Rent NVIDIA A100 SXM4 — 80 GB, $0.583/hr on-demand
- VRAM 80 GBHBM2e
- FP16 tensor 312TFLOPS
- PowerScore 220RTX 3090 = 100
- Configs 1–8×NVLink
- Online now 43 7 regions
Billed per second, price locked at deploy. Storage $0.08/GB/mo · bandwidth $0.01/GB — the whole fee schedule. Next weekly market re-check: 2026-09-10.
Datacenter · Ampere architecture
The A100 SXM4 (80 GB) adds 600 GB/s NVLink and higher sustained clocks to the Ampere flagship, in 4- and 8-GPU HGX baseboards. For ≤13B pre-training, LoRA farms and FP64 HPC it still wins on total job cost against newer cards — and interruptible A100 supply is deep.
A server-class card built for sustained 24/7 load: passive cooling in proper chassis, ECC memory, and drivers validated for compute. The sweet spot for inference fleets and fine-tuning jobs that need stability more than headline FLOPS.
NVIDIA A100 SXM4 specs: VRAM, TFLOPS, bandwidth
| GPU model | NVIDIA A100 SXM4 | Architecture | Ampere (2020) |
|---|---|---|---|
| VRAM | 80 GB HBM2e | Memory bandwidth | 2,039 GB/s |
| FP16 tensor perf. | 312 TFLOPS | FP32 perf. | 19.5 TFLOPS |
| CUDA cores | 6,912 | TDP | 400 W |
| PowerScore (RTX 3090 = 100) | 220 | PCIe generation | Gen 4.0 |
| Multi-GPU | 1× – 8× · NVLink | Max instance storage | 8,000 GB NVMe |
| Network up to | 10,000 Mbps | CUDA | 12.4 – 13.0 |
Bandwidth, CUDA cores, TDP and FP32 are public NVIDIA figures; FP16 tensor is the dense (non-sparsity) number. Machine-level values come from live inventory.
A100 SXM4 price per hour: on-demand, interruptible, reserved
One public rule sets every price on this page: the marketplace median for the A100 SXM4 ($0.83/hr, snapshot 2026-09-03) × 0.70, rounded down — so on-demand is $0.583, 30% below market. Interruptible halves it; a 3-month reservation takes another 35% off.
| Mode | Per GPU-hour | Per day (24 h) | Per month (730 h) | What you get |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | $0.583 | $13.99 | $426 | Guaranteed capacity, price locked at deploy, stop anytime |
| Interruptible | $0.291 | $6.98 | $212 | Flat −50%; may pause under capacity pressure, disk kept, auto-requeue |
| Reserved (3 months) | $0.378 | $9.07 | $276 | −35% on on-demand, rate locked for the term, capacity held |
Per GPU: an 8× machine costs exactly 8× — no multi-GPU premium. Estimate a full month with storage and bandwidth in the GPU cost calculator.
What you can run on a A100 SXM4 (80 GB VRAM)
With 80 GB of HBM2e, a single card holds a ~32B-parameter LLM in FP16 or up to ~123B parameters quantized to 4-bit, with room for KV-cache at practical context lengths. Scale to 8× GPUs on one machine with NVLink for bigger models or bigger batches — the per-GPU price stays $0.583.
- Recommended for fine-tuning — QLoRA 70B on one GPU
- Recommended for scientific computing — Up to 4.8 TB/s per GPU
- One-click template: vLLM on a A100 SXM4
- One-click template: PyTorch on a A100 SXM4
- One-click template: ComfyUI on a A100 SXM4
- Sizing help: LLM VRAM requirements guide
A100 SXM4 availability by region
43 × A100 SXM4 across 8 machines, live from inventory:
Dallas, TX
Singapore
São Paulo
London
Stockholm
Mumbai
Jakarta
A100 SXM4 vs alternatives: price per TFLOP
| GPU | VRAM | FP16 | On-demand | $ / TFLOP-hr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A100 SXM4 this card | 80 GB | 312 | $0.583 | $1.87‰ |
| H100 SXM | 80 GB | 990 | $1.587 | $1.60‰ |
| H200 | 141 GB | 990 | $3.058 | $3.09‰ |
| B200 | 192 GB | 2,250 | $4.204 | $1.87‰ |
| B300 | 288 GB | 2,800 | $7.875 | $2.81‰ |
‰ = dollars per 1,000 TFLOP-hours of FP16 — a rough value-for-compute yardstick across cards.
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Renting a A100 SXM4: frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to rent an NVIDIA A100 SXM4 per hour?
$0.583 per GPU-hour on-demand — a fixed price set at least 30% below the current market median of $0.83. Interruptible capacity costs $0.291/hr and a 3-month reservation $0.378/hr. Around $426/month if you keep one running non-stop, billed per second.
What can a A100 SXM4 with 80 GB VRAM run?
In LLM terms, roughly a 32B-parameter model in FP16 or up to ~123B parameters 4-bit quantized on a single card, with context headroom. Multi-GPU instances (up to 8× on current inventory) multiply that; diffusion and rendering workloads fit comfortably at this VRAM class.
Is the A100 SXM4 available to rent right now?
Yes — 43 GPUs across 8 machines in 7 regions are listed as we render this page. Configurations go from 1× to 8× with NVLink on multi-GPU chassis. Deploy from the console and it is running in about 30 seconds.
How do I deploy a A100 SXM4?
Create an account (email + password, no card, no KYC), top up in crypto, open the console, filter by A100 SXM4, pick a machine and a template such as PyTorch, vLLM or ComfyUI. The same deploy is one command with the CLI: powergpu launch --gpu a100-sxm4 --template pytorch.
Why is the A100 SXM4 cheaper here than on GPU marketplaces?
We price from the public marketplace median and fix our on-demand rate at least 30% below it, rounded down. The price is re-checked weekly (next check 2026-09-10) and published — no auctions, no per-host roulette, no bidding.