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RTX 3070 cloud GPU pricing

21 listings across 7 providers. Cheapest published rate: $0.040/GPU/hr at Salad. Sorted by per-GPU hourly price. Every row links to the provider's own published price.

WHAT IS THE RTX 3070

The 3070 was Ampere's mainstream hit, but its 8 GB of GDDR6 defines it in 2026: enough for small dev work and 7B models at tight quantization, not enough for comfortable serving. In catalogs it is near the price floor - fine for experiments, limiting for anything real.

MAKER
NVIDIA
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
LAUNCHED
2020
MEMORY
8 GB GDDR6
MEMORY BANDWIDTH
448 GB/s
TENSOR COMPUTE
20.3 TFLOPS FP32; 3rd-gen tensor cores
POWER DRAW
220 W
INTERCONNECT
PCIe 4.0 x16

WHAT IT IS GOOD AT

Development
Cheap CUDA capacity for testing and coursework.
7B inference
Tight - a 4-bit 7B fits with minimal context.
Fine-tuning
Only small models, slowly.

WHO SHOULD NOT RENT THE RTX 3070

Comfortable 7B serving with real context lengths - 8 GB runs out fast.
Anything 13B-class or training beyond toy scale.
ProviderConfigVRAMLocation$/hr$/GPU/hrSource
QuickPodQuickPodRTX 3070 × 18 GBNot published$0.020$0.020STALEreceipt
SaladSaladRTX 3070 × 18 GBGlobal (distributed)$0.040$0.040receipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 38 GBFI$0.150$0.050receipt
SpotGPUsSpotGPUsRTX 3070 × 18 GBNot published$0.050$0.050STALEreceipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 18 GBRU$0.054$0.054receipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 18 GBBG$0.058$0.058receipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 18 GBCA$0.063$0.063receipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 28 GBSK$0.125$0.063receipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 28 GBTW$0.125$0.063receipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 38 GBIT$0.188$0.063receipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 28 GBPT$0.133$0.067receipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 38 GBCA$0.208$0.069receipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 38 GBRO$0.208$0.069receipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 18 GBDE$0.073$0.073receipt
AutoDLAutoDLRTX 3070 × 18 GBChina$0.082$0.082receipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 18 GBBY$0.083$0.083receipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 28 GBCN$0.208$0.104receipt
CloreCloreRTX 3070 × 18 GBUS$0.117$0.117receipt
RunPodRunPodRTX 3070 × 18 GBGlobal$0.130$0.130receipt
GPUBrazilGPUBrazilRTX 3070 × 18 GBNorth America$0.255$0.255receipt
GPUBrazilGPUBrazilRTX 3070 × 18 GBAsia-Pacific$0.255$0.255receipt

THE RTX 3070 MARKET, BY THE NUMBERS

PROVIDERS
7
CONFIGURATIONS
21
MEDIAN $/GPU/HR
$0.07
SPREAD
6.4x

7 providers publish 21 RTX 3070 configurations on the panel today. Published per-GPU hourly rates run from $0.040 (Salad) to $0.26 (GPUBrazil), a 6x spread between the cheapest and the most expensive published rate for the same chip. The median listing sits at $0.07/GPU/hr. 16 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 3070 BY GEOGRAPHY
canadaClore$0.063/hrslovakiaClore$0.063/hritalyClore$0.063/hrromaniaClore$0.069/hrgermanyClore$0.073/hrchinaAutoDL$0.082/hrunited statesClore$0.117/hr
RTX 3070 PRICE TREND, DAILY PANEL SNAPSHOTS

Across every RTX 3070 row on the panel, the daily floor held flat at $0.040/GPU/hr over 53 days of tracking. Snapshots run daily; the full history is public in the repo.

RTX 3070 PROVIDER NOTES
Salad · 1 config · 1 region
Sets the panel floor for this model.
from $0.040/hr
Clore · 14 configs · 13 regions · 14 in stock
Widest regional footprint here - 13 regions.
from $0.050/hr
AutoDL · 1 config · 1 region
Published catalog rates.
from $0.082/hr
RunPod · 1 config · 1 region
Published catalog rates.
from $0.130/hr
GPUBrazil · 2 configs · 2 regions · 2 in stock
2 of 2 configs reported in stock at last check.
from $0.255/hr
BUYING RTX 3070: WHAT THE PANEL SAYS

At the current floor, one RTX 3070 running around the clock costs about $29 a month (730 hours of on-demand arithmetic). Per-GPU floors by config size: 1x $0.04 · 2x $0.06 · 3x $0.05. Compare the alternatives below before committing - the same budget often buys more than one chip class.

RTX 3070 VS THE ALTERNATIVES

RTX 3070 vs RTX 4070
The 4070's 12 GB and Ada tensor cores open workloads the 3070's 8 GB excludes. Worth a real premium for LLM work.
RTX 3070 vs RTX 3060
The 3060 is slower but carries 12 GB - memory beats speed for LLM fit, so the cheaper-looking 3070 is often the worse rental.

Compare live rates: RTX 3070 vs RTX 4070 · RTX 3070 vs RTX 3060

RTX 3070 PRICING FAQ

What is the cheapest RTX 3070 cloud GPU right now?
The cheapest published RTX 3070 rate on the panel is $0.040 per GPU-hour at Salad (RTX 3070 x 1, Global (distributed)). Every price links to the provider's own published rate.
How much does a RTX 3070 cost per hour?
Across 7 providers tracked today, published per-GPU hourly rates for RTX 3070 run from $0.04 to $0.26, with a median of $0.07. Committed-use and reserved rates are excluded; everything shown is on-demand.
How many providers rent RTX 3070 GPUs?
7 providers publish 21 distinct RTX 3070 configurations on Compute Cafe. 16 of those rows were reported in stock by the provider's live endpoint at last observation.
Where is RTX 3070 cheapest?
By published per-GPU hourly rate, the cheapest geography for RTX 3070 today is canada at $0.06/hr (Clore). The spread across 7 tracked geographies runs to $0.12/hr in united states.
Are RTX 3070 prices going up or down?
Over the 53 days Compute Cafe has tracked the panel, the RTX 3070 floor is holding flat: $0.040 to $0.040/GPU/hr (+0.0%). Daily snapshots are public in the repo, so the trend is auditable.
What does a RTX 3070 cost per month?
At the current floor of $0.040/GPU/hr, a RTX 3070 running 24/7 costs about $29 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.
Can an RTX 3070 run a 7B LLM?
Barely, at 4-bit quantization with short context. For usable 7B serving, 12 GB (3060, 4070) is the practical floor.

See also alternatives to the RTX 3070 · cheapest GPU-hour per model · inference chips · training chips · by location