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A10G vs L4
Specs from the chip makers' datasheets; prices from the live Compute Cafe panel, refreshed daily. Every rate is an on-demand published price with a source receipt.
CHEAPEST A10G
$1.006/hr
AWS · median $1.36 · 3 providers
CHEAPEST L4
$0.213/hr
AIC Cloud · median $0.79 · 16 providers
CHEAPER RIGHT NOW
L4
live panel, 2026-11-12
| A10G | L4 | |
|---|---|---|
| MAKER | NVIDIA | NVIDIA |
| ARCHITECTURE | Ampere | Ada Lovelace |
| LAUNCHED | 2021 | 2023 |
| MEMORY | 24 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6 |
| MEMORY BANDWIDTH | 600 GB/s | 300 GB/s |
| TENSOR COMPUTE | 125 TFLOPS FP16 tensor dense (250 sparse) | 121 TFLOPS FP16 tensor dense (242 sparse); 242 TOPS INT8 dense |
| POWER DRAW | 150 W | 72 W |
| INTERCONNECT | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
HOW TO CHOOSE
A10G vs L4
AWS's own newer inference chip (G6 instances): similar compute, newer engines, often better $/hr. Check the panel's live AWS rows for both.
Workload fit
A10G: mid-size inference, graphics workstations. L4: small-model serving, video pipelines, edge and burst inference.
A10G VS L4 - FAQ
Which is cheaper to rent, A10G or L4?
By today's published on-demand rates: A10G starts at $1.006/GPU/hr (median $1.36, 3 providers) and L4 starts at $0.213/GPU/hr (median $0.79, 16 providers). The cheapest live listing is the L4 at AIC Cloud. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.
A10G or L4 - which should I rent?
A10G: The A10G is the AWS-specific variant of the A10, deployed in G5 instances with vGPU support. L4: The L4 is the modern successor to the T4: a 72 W single-slot card with roughly double its predecessor's throughput, FP8 support, and Ada's AV1 video engines. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.
Where can I rent A10G and L4?
3 providers publish A10G rates and 16 publish L4 rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.
Full pricing: A10G · L4 · all comparisons