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RTX 3060 cloud GPU pricing

9 listings across 6 providers. Cheapest published rate: $0.030/GPU/hr at Salad. Sorted by per-GPU hourly price. Every row links to the provider's own published price.

WHAT IS THE RTX 3060

The 3060's modest specs hide its real distinction: 12 GB of memory at the bottom of the price table. It is the cheapest card that can hold a quantized 13B model at all, which keeps it in catalogs years after its speed stopped impressing anyone.

MAKER
NVIDIA
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
LAUNCHED
2021
MEMORY
12 GB GDDR6
MEMORY BANDWIDTH
360 GB/s
TENSOR COMPUTE
12.7 TFLOPS FP32; 3rd-gen tensor cores
POWER DRAW
170 W
INTERCONNECT
PCIe 4.0 x16

WHAT IT IS GOOD AT

Budget 13B experimentation
The cheapest entry - a 4-bit 13B fits, slowly (360 GB/s is the bottleneck).
7B serving
Workable for low-traffic serving and dev.
Fine-tuning
Small-model LoRA only.

WHO SHOULD NOT RENT THE RTX 3060

Latency-sensitive serving - bandwidth-bound.
Training beyond toy scale.
ProviderConfigVRAMLocation$/hr$/GPU/hrSource
QuickPodQuickPodRTX 3060 × 112 GBNot published$0.020$0.020STALEreceipt
SaladSaladRTX 3060 × 18 GBGlobal (distributed)$0.030$0.030receipt
SaladSaladRTX 3060 × 112 GBGlobal (distributed)$0.040$0.040receipt
SimplePodSimplePodRTX 3060 × 112 GBNot published$0.050$0.050receipt
AutoDLAutoDLRTX 3060 × 112 GBChina$0.094$0.094receipt
FeaturizeFeaturizeRTX 3060 × 112.6 GBChina$0.103$0.103receipt
GPUBrazilGPUBrazilRTX 3060 × 112 GBAsia-Pacific$0.203$0.203receipt
GPUBrazilGPUBrazilRTX 3060 × 112 GBNorth America$0.303$0.303receipt
GPUBrazilGPUBrazilRTX 3060 × 112 GBEurope$0.413$0.413receipt

THE RTX 3060 MARKET, BY THE NUMBERS

PROVIDERS
6
CONFIGURATIONS
9
MEDIAN $/GPU/HR
$0.10
SPREAD
13.8x

6 providers publish 9 RTX 3060 configurations on the panel today. Published per-GPU hourly rates run from $0.030 (Salad) to $0.41 (GPUBrazil), a 14x spread between the cheapest and the most expensive published rate for the same chip. The median listing sits at $0.10/GPU/hr. 3 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 RTX 3060 BY GEOGRAPHY
chinaAutoDL$0.094/hrunited statesGPUBrazil$0.303/hr
RTX 3060 PRICE TREND, DAILY PANEL SNAPSHOTS

Across every RTX 3060 row on the panel, the daily floor held flat at $0.030/GPU/hr over 53 days of tracking. Snapshots run daily; the full history is public in the repo.

RTX 3060 PROVIDER NOTES
Salad · 2 configs · 1 region
Sets the panel floor for this model.
from $0.030/hr
SimplePod · 1 config
Published catalog rates.
from $0.050/hr
AutoDL · 1 config · 1 region
Published catalog rates.
from $0.094/hr
Featurize · 1 config · 1 region
Published catalog rates.
from $0.103/hr
GPUBrazil · 3 configs · 3 regions · 3 in stock
3 of 3 configs reported in stock at last check.
from $0.203/hr
BUYING RTX 3060: WHAT THE PANEL SAYS

At the current floor, one RTX 3060 running around the clock costs about $22 a month (730 hours of on-demand arithmetic). Compare the alternatives below before committing - the same budget often buys more than one chip class.

RTX 3060 VS THE ALTERNATIVES

RTX 3060 vs RTX 4060 Ti
Newer and faster per watt, but the 8 GB variant fits less than the 3060's 12 GB. For memory fit on a budget, the old card wins; for speed, the new one.
RTX 3060 vs RTX 3070
The 3070 is much faster but its 8 GB excludes the 13B experiments the 3060 can run. Memory decides.

Compare live rates: RTX 3060 vs RTX 4060 Ti · RTX 3060 vs RTX 3070 · RTX 3060 vs RTX A2000 · RTX 3060 vs RTX 2070 · RTX 3060 vs Titan Xp · RTX 3060 vs RTX 3050 · RTX 3060 vs RTX 4060

RTX 3060 PRICING FAQ

What is the cheapest RTX 3060 cloud GPU right now?
The cheapest published RTX 3060 rate on the panel is $0.030 per GPU-hour at Salad (RTX 3060 x 1, Global (distributed)). Every price links to the provider's own published rate.
How much does a RTX 3060 cost per hour?
Across 6 providers tracked today, published per-GPU hourly rates for RTX 3060 run from $0.03 to $0.41, with a median of $0.10. Committed-use and reserved rates are excluded; everything shown is on-demand.
How many providers rent RTX 3060 GPUs?
6 providers publish 9 distinct RTX 3060 configurations on Compute Cafe. 3 of those rows were reported in stock by the provider's live endpoint at last observation.
Where is RTX 3060 cheapest?
By published per-GPU hourly rate, the cheapest geography for RTX 3060 today is china at $0.09/hr (AutoDL). The spread across 2 tracked geographies runs to $0.30/hr in united states.
Are RTX 3060 prices going up or down?
Over the 53 days Compute Cafe has tracked the panel, the RTX 3060 floor is holding flat: $0.030 to $0.030/GPU/hr (+0.0%). Daily snapshots are public in the repo, so the trend is auditable.
What does a RTX 3060 cost per month?
At the current floor of $0.030/GPU/hr, a RTX 3060 running 24/7 costs about $22 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.
Why is the 3060 still everywhere?
12 GB at the price floor. It is the cheapest way to load a 13B-class model, and that single fact keeps it relevant.

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