L4 vs T4

L4 vs T4

The L4 roughly doubles FP16 and INT8 throughput at the same 72 W and adds AV1. Unless the T4 is dramatically cheaper on the panel, take the L4.

T4 vs L4

The L4 is the T4's direct successor: roughly 2x the FP16 throughput and 2.5x the INT8, newer video engines, at a similar 72 W. Unless the T4 is dramatically cheaper on the panel, the L4 is the better default.

Workload fit

L4: small-model serving, video pipelines, edge and burst inference. T4: small-model inference, video transcoding, fine-tuning.

Which is cheaper to rent, L4 or T4?

By today's published on-demand rates: L4 starts at $0.080/GPU/hr (median $0.70, 26 providers) and T4 starts at $0.070/GPU/hr (median $1.09, 16 providers). The cheapest live listing is the T4 at SpotGPUs. Figures recompute from the panel on every refresh.

L4 or T4 - which should I rent?

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. T4: The T4 is NVIDIA's low-power inference workhorse: a 70-watt single-slot card that became the default cost floor for model serving. The side-by-side spec table and live price rows above give the full picture.

Where can I rent L4 and T4?

26 providers publish L4 rates and 16 publish T4 rates on Compute Cafe. Every row links to the provider's own published price - committed-use and reserved rates are excluded.