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A16 cloud GPU pricing
4 listings across 4 providers. Cheapest published rate: $0.082/GPU/hr at MatPool. Sorted by per-GPU hourly price. Every row links to the provider's own published price.
WHAT IS THE A16
The A16 is four small Ampere GPUs on a single PCB, built for one job: virtual desktop density. Each 16 GB slice serves vGPU sessions, so one 250 W card hosts dozens of virtual workstations. On rental panels it shows up cheap because it is a VDI part, not a compute part - and buyers comparing it to an L4 or A10 are asking the wrong question.
MEMORY
4x 16 GB GDDR6 ECC (64 GB total)
MEMORY BANDWIDTH
4x 200 GB/s
TENSOR COMPUTE
Four Ampere GPUs on one board (third-gen Tensor Cores per GPU)
WHAT IT IS GOOD AT
VDI and virtual workstations
The only real fit. Four 16 GB GPUs per card with NVIDIA vPC/vWS software is the highest-density graphics VDI play of its generation.
Small inference jobs on idle VDI capacity
NVIDIA explicitly positions spare A16 capacity for off-hours compute. Workable, but each slice is a small 16 GB Ampere.
LLM training or serious inference
No. Four isolated 16 GB GPUs with 200 GB/s each cannot hold or feed modern models, and there is no NVLink between the slices.
WHO SHOULD NOT RENT THE A16
Any single-model workload over 16 GB - the four GPUs cannot share memory.
Compute buyers: an L4 at similar panel prices outperforms the whole card on one 24 GB slice with 300 GB/s and newer tensor cores.
THE A16 MARKET, BY THE NUMBERS
4 providers publish 4 A16 configurations on the panel today. Published per-GPU hourly rates run from $0.082 (MatPool) to $0.47 (Vultr), a 6x spread between the cheapest and the most expensive published rate for the same chip. The median listing sits at $0.23/GPU/hr. 4 rows were reported in stock by the provider at last observation; the rest are published catalog rates. All rates are on-demand - committed-use and reserved pricing is excluded.
A16 PRICE TREND, DAILY PANEL SNAPSHOTS
Across every A16 row on the panel, the daily floor moved from $0.471 to $0.082/GPU/hr over 10 days of tracking (-82.7%). Snapshots run daily; the full history is public in the repo.
A16 PROVIDER NOTES
MatPool · 1 config · 1 region · 1 in stockSets the panel floor for this model.
from $0.082/hrVast.ai · 1 config · 1 region · 1 in stock1 of 1 configs reported in stock at last check.
from $0.108/hrGPUBrazil · 1 config · 1 region · 1 in stock1 of 1 configs reported in stock at last check.
from $0.225/hrVultr · 1 config · 1 in stock1 of 1 configs reported in stock at last check.
from $0.471/hrBUYING A16: WHAT THE PANEL SAYS
At the current floor, one A16 running around the clock costs about $60 a month (730 hours of on-demand arithmetic). Compare the alternatives below before committing - the same budget often buys more than one chip class.
A16 VS THE ALTERNATIVES
Same generation, different intent: the A10 is one 24 GB GPU for compute and graphics, the A16 is four 16 GB GPUs for VDI density. For AI workloads the A10 wins outright; for desktops-per-rack the A16 wins outright.
Compare live rates: A16 vs A10
A16 PRICING FAQ
What is the cheapest A16 cloud GPU right now?
The cheapest published A16 rate on the panel is $0.082 per GPU-hour at MatPool (A16 x 1, China). Every price links to the provider's own published rate.
How much does a A16 cost per hour?
Across 4 providers tracked today, published per-GPU hourly rates for A16 run from $0.08 to $0.47, with a median of $0.23. Committed-use and reserved rates are excluded; everything shown is on-demand.
How many providers rent A16 GPUs?
4 providers publish 4 distinct A16 configurations on Compute Cafe. 4 of those rows were reported in stock by the provider's live endpoint at last observation.
Where is A16 cheapest?
By published per-GPU hourly rate, the cheapest geography for A16 today is china at $0.08/hr (MatPool). The spread across 2 tracked geographies runs to $0.11/hr in vietnam.
Are A16 prices going up or down?
Over the 10 days Compute Cafe has tracked the panel, the A16 floor is falling: $0.471 to $0.082/GPU/hr (-82.7%). Daily snapshots are public in the repo, so the trend is auditable.
What does a A16 cost per month?
At the current floor of $0.082/GPU/hr, a A16 running 24/7 costs about $60 per month (730 hours of on-demand arithmetic on the cheapest published rate). Committed-use contracts can price lower; the panel tracks on-demand rates only.
Is the A16 good for AI workloads?
Only incidentally. It is a VDI card - four separate 16 GB GPUs that cannot pool memory. A model must fit in a single 16 GB slice, and 200 GB/s per slice is slow for inference. Rent it for virtual desktops, not for models.
Why is the A16 so cheap on GPU rental panels?
Supply and use case: VDI fleets refreshed out large numbers of them, and the four-slice design does not map onto LLM workloads, so AI demand does not bid the price up the way it does for 24+ GB cards.
See also alternatives to the A16 · cheapest GPU-hour per model · inference chips · training chips · by location
Vast.ai
GPUBrazil
Vultr