GPU MODELS / RTX A6000
RTX A6000 cloud GPU pricing
39 listings across 25 providers. Cheapest published rate: $0.170/GPU/hr at SpotGPUs. Sorted by per-GPU hourly price. Every row links to the provider's own published price.
WHAT IS THE RTX A6000
The RTX A6000 was the flagship workstation card of the Ampere generation and a budget-lab favorite: 48 GB of memory, full double-precision support, and widespread availability on budget GPU clouds. For fine-tuning and 34B-class inference it remains a solid mid-market option.
WHAT IT IS GOOD AT
WHO SHOULD NOT RENT THE RTX A6000
| Provider | Config | VRAM | Location | $/hr | $/GPU/hr | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $0.170 | $0.170 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $0.320 | $0.320 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Global | $0.330 | $0.330 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $0.350 | $0.350 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $0.350 | $0.350 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | China | $0.357 | $0.357 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $0.400 | $0.400 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 47.5 GB | China | $0.423 | $0.423 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Canada Central | $0.440 | $0.440 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $0.450 | $0.450 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Multiple regions | $0.470 | $0.470 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 51 GB | China | $0.489 | $0.489 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 2 | 48 GB | US Central | $0.990 | $0.495 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 4 | 48 GB | US Central | $1.980 | $0.495 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 8 | 48 GB | US Central | $3.960 | $0.495 | receipt | |
| A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | US / EU / CA | $0.500 | $0.500 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | US Central | $0.500 | $0.500 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $0.520 | $0.520 | receipt | |
| A6000 (from) × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $0.540 | $0.540 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 [ALT Config] × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $0.550 | $0.550 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $0.550 | $0.550 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 [ALT Config] × 8 | 48 GB | Not published | $4.400 | $0.550 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $0.570 | $0.570 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 [Premium] × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $0.570 | $0.570 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 8 | 48 GB | Not published | $4.560 | $0.570 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 [Premium] × 8 | 48 GB | Not published | $4.560 | $0.570 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | North America | $0.596 | $0.596 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Europe (Finland / Iceland) | $0.634 | $0.634 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 2 | 48 GB | Europe (Finland / Iceland) | $1.268 | $0.634 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 4 | 48 GB | Europe (Finland / Iceland) | $2.536 | $0.634 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 8 | 48 GB | Europe (Finland / Iceland) | $5.072 | $0.634 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Global | $0.702 | $0.702 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $0.720 | $0.720 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Europe | $0.754 | $0.754 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Italy | $0.843 | $0.843 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Singapore | $1.220 | $1.220 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | India | $1.231 | $1.231 | receipt | |
| RTX A6000 × 2 | 48 GB | EU | $3.066 | $1.533 | receipt | |
| A6000 × 1 | 48 GB | Not published | $1.890 | $1.890 | receipt |
THE RTX A6000 MARKET, BY THE NUMBERS
25 providers publish 39 RTX A6000 configurations on the panel today. Published per-GPU hourly rates run from $0.170 (SpotGPUs) to $1.89 (Paperspace), a 11x spread between the cheapest and the most expensive published rate for the same chip. The median listing sits at $0.55/GPU/hr. 20 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.
Across every RTX A6000 row on the panel, the daily floor moved from $0.330 to $0.170/GPU/hr over 11 days of tracking (-48.5%). The median continuously-tracked listing held flat at $0.57. Snapshots run daily; the full history is public in the repo.
At the current floor, one RTX A6000 running around the clock costs about $124 a month (730 hours of on-demand arithmetic). Node shape matters: the single-GPU floor is $0.170/GPU/hr against $0.495/GPU/hr on an 8-GPU node (+191.2%). Per-GPU floors by config size: 1x $0.17 · 2x $0.49 · 4x $0.49 · 8x $0.49. Compare the alternatives below before committing - the same budget often buys more than one chip class.
RTX A6000 VS THE ALTERNATIVES
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RTX A6000 PRICING FAQ
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