Memory tier · 48 GB
Lowest-priced 48 GB GPU listings
5 GPU models carry 48 GB: RTX A6000, L40S, A40, RTX 6000 Ada, and L40. The lowest-priced listing is $0.35 per GPU-hour for the RTX A6000 at Thunder Compute. Read 12 November 2026.
- Lowest listed
- $0.35
- Per GB-hour
- $0.007
- Providers
- 17
- One day
- $8.40
RTX A6000, Thunder Compute
lowest listed over memory
with a listing in the tier
one GPU at the lowest listing
Tier
GPU models with 48 GB
| GPU | Memory | Lowest-priced listing | $/GPU-hr | $/GB-hr | Providers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX A6000workstation | 48 GB | Thunder Compute | $0.35 | $0.007 | 7 | page |
| L40Sdatacenter | 48 GB | Runcrateours, live | $0.55 | $0.011 | 14 | page |
| A40datacenter | 48 GB | RunPod | $0.59 | $0.012 | 3 | page |
| RTX 6000 Adaworkstation | 48 GB | Novita AI | $0.77 | $0.016 | 2 | page |
| L40datacenter | 48 GB | Thunder Compute | $0.79 | $0.016 | 6 | page |
The tier is the card's stated memory, exactly 48 GB. Listings are provider-set on-demand prices in effect today, per GPU-hour. The rule for the lowest-priced listing is simply the lowest price among them.
Listings
Lowest-priced 48 GB listings, provider by provider
| # | GPU | Provider | Configuration | $/GPU-hr | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RTX A6000 | Thunder Compute | 1× · Instance RTX A6000 | $0.35 | page |
| 2 | RTX A6000 | Hyperstack | 1× · NVIDIA A6000 | $0.50 | page |
| 3 | RTX A6000 | Massed Compute | 1× · RTX A6000 (48GB) [ALT Config] | $0.55 | page |
| 4 | L40S | Runcrateours, live | 1× | $0.55 | page |
| 5 | RTX A6000 | Runcrateours, live | 1× | $0.58 | page |
| 6 | RTX A6000 | RunPod | 1× · Secure Cloud RTX A6000 | $0.59 | page |
| 7 | A40 | RunPod | 1× · Secure Cloud A40 | $0.59 | page |
| 8 | L40S | CloudRift | 1× · On-demand (max 8 GPUs per instance) | $0.69 | page |
| 9 | RTX A6000 | Koyeb | 1× · Serverless GPU instance RTX-A6000 | $0.75 | page |
| 10 | RTX 6000 Ada | Novita AI | 1× · GPU instance, on-demand (sample configuration) | $0.77 | page |
| 11 | L40 | Thunder Compute | 1× · Instance L40 | $0.79 | page |
| 12 | L40 | RunPod | 1× · Secure Cloud L40 | $0.82 | page |
| 13 | L40 | Massed Compute | 1× · L40 (48GB) | $0.86 | page |
| 14 | RTX A6000 | Verda | 1× · 1x RTX A6000 48GB (10 vCPU, 60 GB RAM) | $0.86 | page |
| 15 | RTX 6000 Ada | Runcrateours, live | 1× | $0.96 | page |
One line per provider and GPU, its lowest price. The fifteen lowest are shown of 32.
Or more
The lowest-priced ways to get at least 48 GB
| GPU | Memory | Lowest-priced listing | $/GPU-hr | $/GB-hr | Providers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX A6000workstation | 48 GB | Thunder Compute | $0.35 | $0.007 | 7 | page |
| L40Sdatacenter | 48 GB | Runcrateours, live | $0.55 | $0.011 | 14 | page |
| A40datacenter | 48 GB | RunPod | $0.59 | $0.012 | 3 | page |
| RTX PRO 6000workstation | 96 GB | packet.ai | $0.76 | $0.008 | 14 | page |
| RTX 6000 Adaworkstation | 48 GB | Novita AI | $0.77 | $0.016 | 2 | page |
| L40datacenter | 48 GB | Thunder Compute | $0.79 | $0.016 | 6 | page |
| A100 80GBdatacenter | 80 GB | Thunder Compute | $1.09 | $0.014 | 12 | page |
| MI300Xdatacenter | 192 GB | Vultr8 GPU machine | $1.85 | $0.010 | 4 | page |
Every GPU model with 48 GB or more, ordered by lowest listed price, eight lowest. A bigger card can cost less than the card at exactly 48 GB; the memory is then free, but the card may be slower or older.
Arithmetic
What 48 GB holds
Weights alone, at 2 bytes per parameter (FP16), 48 GB holds about 24B parameters; at 1 byte (FP8), 48B; at half a byte (INT4), 96B. A 14 GB 7B model at FP16 fits in 48 GB, and a 26 GB 13B model at FP16 fits. These figures leave out the KV cache and activations, which take more memory as context and batch size grow, so treat them as a ceiling.
Questions
What is the lowest price for a 48 GB GPU?
$0.35 per GPU-hour for the RTX A6000 at Thunder Compute, read 2026-11-12.
Which GPUs have 48 GB?
RTX A6000 (7 providers), L40S (14 providers), A40 (3 providers), RTX 6000 Ada (2 providers), and L40 (6 providers).
What does a 48 GB GPU cost per GB of memory?
At the lowest listing, $0.007 per GB-hour. The median of provider lows across the tier is $0.59 per GPU-hour.
Other memory tiers
Disclosure
Low-Cost GPU Finder is published by the Runcrate team, who also run Runcrate, an AI cloud. Runcrate is listed in the table, marked "ours, live". It is sorted by price like every other row, with no pinned position. Other providers' prices are read from their own public pricing pages. We have no paid placement.