GPU MODELS / L4

L4 cloud GPU pricing

28 listings across 22 providers. Cheapest published rate: $0.213/GPU/hr at AIC Cloud. Sorted by per-GPU hourly price. Every row links to the provider's own published price.

WHAT IS THE 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. It is the default low-cost serving chip on every major cloud, and the right answer for small-model inference and video pipelines at scale.

MAKER
NVIDIA
ARCHITECTURE
Ada Lovelace
LAUNCHED
2023
MEMORY
24 GB GDDR6
MEMORY BANDWIDTH
300 GB/s
TENSOR COMPUTE
121 TFLOPS FP16 tensor dense (242 sparse); 242 TOPS INT8 dense
POWER DRAW
72 W
INTERCONNECT
PCIe 4.0 x16

WHAT IT IS GOOD AT

Small-model serving
7B-13B quantized models at high request rates per watt.
Video pipelines
AV1 encode/decode plus AI pre/post-processing on one low-power card.
Edge and burst inference
72 W fits dense server designs and spot-priced fleets.

WHO SHOULD NOT RENT THE L4

Models beyond ~13B - 24 GB and 300 GB/s are the ceiling.
Training of any serious size.
ProviderConfigVRAMLocation$/hr$/GPU/hrSource
SpotGPUsSpotGPUsL4 × 124 GBNot published$0.080$0.080STALEreceipt
AIC CloudAIC CloudL4 × 124 GBMumbai$0.213$0.213receipt
SeewebSeewebL4 × 124 GBItaly$0.422$0.422STALEreceipt
RunPodRunPodL4 × 124 GBGlobal$0.440$0.440receipt
JarvisLabsJarvisLabsL4 × 124 GBIndia$0.440$0.440receipt
InHostedInHostedL4 × 124 GBIndia$0.521$0.521receipt
E2E NetworksE2E NetworksL4 × 124 GBIndia$0.522$0.522receipt
UpCloudUpCloudL4 × 124 GBNot published$0.644$0.644STALEreceipt
SelectelSelectelL4 × 124 GBRussia$0.667$0.667receipt
KoyebKoyebL4 × 124 GBNot published$0.700$0.700receipt
Google CloudGoogle CloudL4 × 124 GBIowa (us-central1)$0.707$0.707STALEreceipt
gpu.aigpu.aiL4 × 124 GBNot published$0.710$0.710receipt
GPUBrazilGPUBrazilL4 × 124 GBGlobal$0.782$0.782receipt
Hostnot GPUHostnot GPUL4 × 124 GBEU East$0.790$0.790receipt
Hostnot GPUHostnot GPUL4 × 124 GBEU West$0.790$0.790receipt
Hostnot GPUHostnot GPUL4 × 124 GBUS East$0.790$0.790receipt
Lightning AILightning AIL4 × 124 GBUS$0.790$0.790STALEreceipt
CerebriumCerebriumL4 × 124 GBNot published$0.799$0.799receipt
AWSAWSL4 × 124 GBUS East (N. Virginia)$0.805$0.805receipt
BasetenBasetenL4 × 124 GBNot published$0.848$0.848receipt
AnyscaleAnyscaleL4 × 124 GBGlobal$0.954$0.954receipt
OVHcloudOVHcloudL4 (from) × 124 GBNot published$1.000$1.000receipt
AWSAWSL4 × 424 GBUS East (N. Virginia)$4.602$1.150receipt
NeysaNeysaL4 (from) × 124 GBIndia$1.170$1.170receipt
Hostnot GPUHostnot GPUL4 × 224 GBEU East$2.480$1.240receipt
Hostnot GPUHostnot GPUL4 × 124 GBEU East$1.250$1.250receipt
GPUBrazilGPUBrazilL4 × 122 GBEurope$1.380$1.380receipt
HinodeHinodeL4 (from) × 124 GBNot published$1.750$1.750STALEreceipt

THE L4 MARKET, BY THE NUMBERS

PROVIDERS
22
CONFIGURATIONS
28
MEDIAN $/GPU/HR
$0.79
SPREAD
6.5x

22 providers publish 28 L4 configurations on the panel today. Published per-GPU hourly rates run from $0.213 (AIC Cloud) to $1.38 (GPUBrazil), a 6x spread between the cheapest and the most expensive published rate for the same chip. The median listing sits at $0.79/GPU/hr. 8 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.

CHEAPEST L4 BY GEOGRAPHY
indiaAIC Cloud$0.213/hrunited statesHostnot GPU$0.790/hr
L4 PRICE TREND, DAILY PANEL SNAPSHOTS

Across every L4 row on the panel, the daily floor moved from $0.440 to $0.213/GPU/hr over 53 days of tracking (-51.6%). The median continuously-tracked listing moved from $0.51 to $0.52 (+2.3%). Snapshots run daily; the full history is public in the repo.

L4 PROVIDER NOTES
AIC Cloud · 1 config · 1 region
Sets the panel floor for this model.
from $0.213/hr
RunPod · 1 config · 1 region · 1 in stock
1 of 1 configs reported in stock at last check.
from $0.440/hr
JarvisLabs · 1 config · 1 region
Published catalog rates.
from $0.440/hr
InHosted · 1 config · 1 region
Published catalog rates.
from $0.521/hr
E2E Networks · 1 config · 1 region
Published catalog rates.
from $0.522/hr
Selectel · 1 config · 1 region
Published catalog rates.
from $0.667/hr
Koyeb · 1 config
Published catalog rates.
from $0.700/hr
gpu.ai · 1 config
Published catalog rates.
from $0.710/hr
BUYING L4: WHAT THE PANEL SAYS

At the current floor, one L4 running around the clock costs about $156 a month (730 hours of on-demand arithmetic). Per-GPU floors by config size: 1x $0.21 · 2x $1.24 · 4x $1.15. Compare the alternatives below before committing - the same budget often buys more than one chip class.

L4 VS THE ALTERNATIVES

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.
L4 vs L40S
Triple the compute and double the memory at 5x the power and price. L4 for scale-out small models, L40S for bigger single models.

Compare live rates: L4 vs T4 · L4 vs L40S · L4 vs A10 · L4 vs A10G · L4 vs RTX A4000

L4 PRICING FAQ

What is the cheapest L4 cloud GPU right now?
The cheapest published L4 rate on the panel is $0.213 per GPU-hour at AIC Cloud (L4 x 1, Mumbai). Every price links to the provider's own published rate.
How much does a L4 cost per hour?
Across 22 providers tracked today, published per-GPU hourly rates for L4 run from $0.21 to $1.38, with a median of $0.79. Committed-use and reserved rates are excluded; everything shown is on-demand.
How many providers rent L4 GPUs?
22 providers publish 28 distinct L4 configurations on Compute Cafe. 8 of those rows were reported in stock by the provider's live endpoint at last observation.
Where is L4 cheapest?
By published per-GPU hourly rate, the cheapest geography for L4 today is india at $0.21/hr (AIC Cloud). The spread across 2 tracked geographies runs to $0.79/hr in united states.
Are L4 prices going up or down?
Over the 53 days Compute Cafe has tracked the panel, the L4 floor is falling: $0.440 to $0.213/GPU/hr (-51.6%). The median continuously-tracked listing moved from $0.51 to $0.52 (+2.3%). Daily snapshots are public in the repo, so the trend is auditable.
What does a L4 cost per month?
At the current floor of $0.213/GPU/hr, a L4 running 24/7 costs about $156 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.
What size model fits on an L4?
24 GB serves a 7B at BF16, a 13B quantized, or a 34B at aggressive 4-bit quantization with tight context. It is a small-model specialist, not an H100 substitute.

See also alternatives to the L4 · cheapest GPU-hour per model · inference chips · training chips · by location