GPU MODELS / T4
T4 cloud GPU pricing
157 listings across 16 providers. Cheapest published rate: $0.070/GPU/hr at SpotGPUs. Sorted by per-GPU hourly price. Every row links to the provider's own published price.
WHAT IS THE T4
The T4 is NVIDIA's low-power inference workhorse: a 70-watt single-slot card that became the default cost floor for model serving. It has no NVLink and modest memory bandwidth, but its power draw and price made it the most widely deployed inference GPU in cloud catalogs. In 2026 it is a legacy part - still the cheapest way to serve small models, but outclassed by the L4 on every metric.
MAKER
NVIDIA
ARCHITECTURE
Turing
LAUNCHED
2018
MEMORY
16 GB GDDR6
MEMORY BANDWIDTH
320 GB/s
TENSOR COMPUTE
65 TFLOPS FP16 tensor (130 TOPS INT8)
POWER DRAW
70 W
INTERCONNECT
PCIe 3.0 x16
WHAT IT IS GOOD AT
Small-model inference
The design target. A 7B model at INT8 or FP16 fits comfortably in 16 GB, and 65 TFLOPS of FP16 is enough for moderate request rates.
Video transcoding
Strong fit - Turing's NVENC/NVDEC blocks handle multi-stream transcode at very low power.
Fine-tuning
Workable for LoRA on small models only. 16 GB and 320 GB/s rule out anything serious.
WHO SHOULD NOT RENT THE T4
Anything beyond small models: 16 GB and 320 GB/s rule out 13B+ serving and all serious training.
New deployments where the L4 rents within ~30% of T4 prices - the successor is faster at the same power.
| Provider | Config | VRAM | Location | $/hr | $/GPU/hr | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 SpotGPUs | T4 × 1 | 16 GB | Not published | $0.070 | $0.070 | receipt |
| T4 × 1 | 15 GB | China | $0.201 | $0.201 | receipt | |
 Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | ATT Dallas 1 | $0.343 | $0.343 | receipt |
| T4 × 1 | 16 GB | US | $0.400 | $0.400 | receipt | |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | ATT Dallas 1 | $0.490 | $0.490 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US North Central | $0.526 | $0.526 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US East 2 | $0.526 | $0.526 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US West 3 | $0.526 | $0.526 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US West 2 | $0.526 | $0.526 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US East | $0.526 | $0.526 | receipt |
 AWS | T4 × 1 | 16 GB | US East (N. Virginia) | $0.526 | $0.526 | receipt |
 Lightning AI | T4 × 1 | 16 GB | US | $0.550 | $0.550 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | SE Central | $0.558 | $0.558 | receipt |
 Anyscale | T4 × 1 | 16 GB | Global | $0.568 | $0.568 | receipt |
 Selectel | T4 × 1 | 16 GB | Russia | $0.578 | $0.578 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | IN Central | $0.579 | $0.579 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | CA Central | $0.584 | $0.584 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | EU North | $0.587 | $0.587 | receipt |
 Modal | T4 × 1 | 16 GB | Not published | $0.590 | $0.590 | receipt |
 Cerebrium | T4 × 1 | 16 GB | Not published | $0.590 | $0.590 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US Central | $0.594 | $0.594 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | IT North | $0.615 | $0.615 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | FR Central | $0.615 | $0.615 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | UK South | $0.615 | $0.615 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US South Central | $0.631 | $0.631 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US West | $0.631 | $0.631 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | MY West | $0.631 | $0.631 | receipt |
 Baseten | T4 × 1 | 16 GB | Not published | $0.631 | $0.631 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | KR Central | $0.647 | $0.647 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | PL Central | $0.656 | $0.656 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | DE West Central | $0.658 | $0.658 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | EU West | $0.658 | $0.658 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US Gov Virginia | $0.658 | $0.658 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | ES Central | $0.684 | $0.684 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | AU Central 2 | $0.684 | $0.684 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | AU East | $0.684 | $0.684 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | AU Central | $0.684 | $0.684 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | ATT Dallas 1 | $2.831 | $0.708 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | JA East | $0.710 | $0.710 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | IL Central | $0.724 | $0.724 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | AP Southeast | $0.736 | $0.736 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | IN South | $0.742 | $0.742 | receipt |
| T4 × 4 | 14 GB | US | $3.000 | $0.750 | receipt | |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US West 2 | $0.752 | $0.752 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US West 3 | $0.752 | $0.752 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US North Central | $0.752 | $0.752 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US East 2 | $0.752 | $0.752 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US East | $0.752 | $0.752 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | JA West | $0.768 | $0.768 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | ATT Dallas 1 | $0.785 | $0.785 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | SE Central | $0.796 | $0.796 | receipt |
 Replicate | T4 × 1 | 16 GB | Global | $0.810 | $0.810 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | IN Central | $0.827 | $0.827 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | CA Central | $0.834 | $0.834 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | EU North | $0.838 | $0.838 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US Central | $0.849 | $0.849 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | FR Central | $0.878 | $0.878 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | IT North | $0.879 | $0.879 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | UK South | $0.880 | $0.880 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | BR South | $0.894 | $0.894 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US South Central | $0.902 | $0.902 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US West | $0.902 | $0.902 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | MY West | $0.902 | $0.902 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | ATT Atlanta 1 | $0.920 | $0.920 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | KR Central | $0.925 | $0.925 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | PL Central | $0.937 | $0.937 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | DE West Central | $0.939 | $0.939 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | EU West | $0.940 | $0.940 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US Gov Virginia | $0.940 | $0.940 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | ES Central | $0.977 | $0.977 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | AU Central | $0.977 | $0.977 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | AU Central 2 | $0.977 | $0.977 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | AU East | $0.978 | $0.978 | receipt |
| AWS | T4 × 4 | 16 GB | US East (N. Virginia) | $3.912 | $0.978 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | JA East | $1.015 | $1.015 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | IL Central | $1.034 | $1.034 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | AP Southeast | $1.052 | $1.052 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | IN South | $1.059 | $1.059 | receipt |
| T4 × 1 | 16 GB | China | $1.088 | $1.088 | receipt | |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | US East 2 | $4.352 | $1.088 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | US West 2 | $4.352 | $1.088 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | US East | $4.352 | $1.088 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | US North Central | $4.352 | $1.088 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | US West 3 | $4.352 | $1.088 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | JA West | $1.097 | $1.097 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | SE Central | $4.603 | $1.151 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | IN Central | $4.787 | $1.197 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US East | $1.204 | $1.204 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US North Central | $1.204 | $1.204 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US West 3 | $1.204 | $1.204 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US West 2 | $1.204 | $1.204 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US East 2 | $1.204 | $1.204 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | CA Central | $4.820 | $1.205 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | EU North | $4.853 | $1.213 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | US Central | $4.907 | $1.227 | receipt |
| T4 × 1 | 16 GB | China | $1.234 | $1.234 | receipt | |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | FR Central | $5.077 | $1.269 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | IT North | $5.081 | $1.270 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | UK South | $5.092 | $1.273 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | SE Central | $1.276 | $1.276 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | BR South | $1.277 | $1.277 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC4as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | SGX Singapore 1 | $1.288 | $1.288 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | MY West | $5.211 | $1.303 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | US West | $5.222 | $1.306 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | US South Central | $5.222 | $1.306 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | ATT Atlanta 1 | $1.315 | $1.315 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | IN Central | $1.324 | $1.324 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | CA Central | $1.336 | $1.336 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | KR Central | $5.353 | $1.338 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | EU North | $1.342 | $1.342 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | PL Central | $5.416 | $1.354 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | DE West Central | $5.428 | $1.357 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US Central | $1.360 | $1.360 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | US Gov Virginia | $5.440 | $1.360 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | EU West | $5.440 | $1.360 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | FR Central | $1.407 | $1.407 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | IT North | $1.408 | $1.408 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | UK South | $1.409 | $1.409 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | AU Central | $5.645 | $1.411 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | AU Central 2 | $5.645 | $1.411 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | ES Central | $5.647 | $1.412 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | AU East | $5.658 | $1.415 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | MY West | $1.444 | $1.444 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US West | $1.445 | $1.445 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US South Central | $1.445 | $1.445 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | JA East | $5.875 | $1.469 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | KR Central | $1.481 | $1.481 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | IL Central | $5.977 | $1.494 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | PL Central | $1.501 | $1.501 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | DE West Central | $1.504 | $1.504 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | US Gov Virginia | $1.505 | $1.505 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | EU West | $1.505 | $1.505 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | AP Southeast | $6.089 | $1.522 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | IN South | $6.123 | $1.531 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | AU Central | $1.565 | $1.565 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | ES Central | $1.565 | $1.565 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | AU East | $1.565 | $1.565 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | AU Central 2 | $1.565 | $1.565 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | JA West | $6.341 | $1.585 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | JA East | $1.625 | $1.625 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | IL Central | $1.657 | $1.657 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | AP Southeast | $1.685 | $1.685 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | IN South | $1.697 | $1.697 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | JA West | $1.757 | $1.757 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC8as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | SGX Singapore 1 | $1.841 | $1.841 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | BR South | $7.383 | $1.846 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC64as_T4_v3] × 4 | 16 GB | ATT Atlanta 1 | $7.600 | $1.900 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | BR South | $2.046 | $2.046 | receipt |
| Microsoft Azure | T4 [NC16as_T4_v3] × 1 | 16 GB | ATT Atlanta 1 | $2.106 | $2.106 | receipt |
| T4 × 4 | 16 GB | US East (N. Virginia) | $8.526 | $2.131 | receipt | |
| T4 × 4 | 16 GB | Singapore | $9.856 | $2.464 | receipt | |
| T4 × 4 | 16 GB | China (Heyuan) | $10.641 | $2.660 | receipt | |
| T4 × 4 | 16 GB | China (Shanghai) | $10.641 | $2.660 | receipt | |
| T4 × 4 | 16 GB | China (Hangzhou) | $10.641 | $2.660 | receipt | |
| T4 × 4 | 16 GB | China (Shenzhen) | $10.641 | $2.660 | receipt | |
| T4 × 4 | 16 GB | China (Beijing) | $10.641 | $2.660 | receipt | |
| T4 × 1 | 16 GB | Singapore | $3.879 | $3.879 | receipt |
THE T4 MARKET, BY THE NUMBERS
PROVIDERS
16
CONFIGURATIONS
157
MEDIAN $/GPU/HR
$1.09
SPREAD
55.4x
16 providers publish 157 T4 configurations on the panel today. Published per-GPU hourly rates run from $0.070 (SpotGPUs) to $3.88 (Kingsoft Cloud), a 55x spread between the cheapest and the most expensive published rate for the same chip. The median listing sits at $1.09/GPU/hr. 143 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 T4 BY GEOGRAPHY
chinaMatPool$0.201/hrunited statesMicrosoft Azure$0.343/hrswedenMicrosoft Azure$0.558/hrindiaMicrosoft Azure$0.579/hrcanadaMicrosoft Azure$0.584/hritalyMicrosoft Azure$0.615/hrfranceMicrosoft Azure$0.615/hrunited kingdomMicrosoft Azure$0.615/hrT4 PRICE TREND, DAILY PANEL SNAPSHOTS
Across every T4 row on the panel, the daily floor moved from $0.343 to $0.070/GPU/hr over 10 days of tracking (-79.6%). The median continuously-tracked listing held flat at $1.09. Snapshots run daily; the full history is public in the repo.
T4 PROVIDER NOTES
from $0.070/hr
from $0.201/hr
Microsoft Azure · 134 configs · 34 regions · 134 in stock
from $0.343/hrWidest regional footprint here - 34 regions.
from $0.400/hr
from $0.526/hr
from $0.550/hr
from $0.568/hr
from $0.578/hr
BUYING T4: WHAT THE PANEL SAYS
At the current floor, one T4 running around the clock costs about $51 a month (730 hours of on-demand arithmetic). Per-GPU floors by config size: 1x $0.07 · 4x $0.71. Compare the alternatives below before committing - the same budget often buys more than one chip class.
T4 VS THE ALTERNATIVES
T4 vs L4
The L4 is the T4's direct successor: roughly 2x the FP16 throughput and 2.5x the INT8, newer video engines, at a similar 72 W. Unless the T4 is dramatically cheaper on the panel, the L4 is the better default.
T4 vs A10
The A10 adds 8 GB more VRAM and nearly double the compute at 150 W. Pick it when a model does not fit in 16 GB or request rates saturate the T4.
Compare live rates: T4 vs L4 · T4 vs A10 · T4 vs V100 · T4 vs RTX A2000 · T4 vs RTX 2070 · T4 vs GTX 1650 · T4 vs P100
T4 PRICING FAQ
What is the cheapest T4 cloud GPU right now?
The cheapest published T4 rate on the panel is $0.070 per GPU-hour at SpotGPUs (T4 x 1, Not published). Every price links to the provider's own published rate.
How much does a T4 cost per hour?
Across 16 providers tracked today, published per-GPU hourly rates for T4 run from $0.07 to $3.88, with a median of $1.09. Committed-use and reserved rates are excluded; everything shown is on-demand.
How many providers rent T4 GPUs?
16 providers publish 157 distinct T4 configurations on Compute Cafe. 143 of those rows were reported in stock by the provider's live endpoint at last observation.
Where is T4 cheapest?
By published per-GPU hourly rate, the cheapest geography for T4 today is china at $0.20/hr (MatPool). The spread across 18 tracked geographies runs to $1.29/hr in singapore.
Are T4 prices going up or down?
Over the 10 days Compute Cafe has tracked the panel, the T4 floor is falling: $0.343 to $0.070/GPU/hr (-79.6%). The median continuously-tracked listing moved from $1.09 to $1.09 (+0.0%). Daily snapshots are public in the repo, so the trend is auditable.
What does a T4 cost per month?
At the current floor of $0.070/GPU/hr, a T4 running 24/7 costs about $51 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 T4 still worth renting?
Only when it is the cheapest option for a small workload. The panel often shows T4 rates under $0.20/GPU/hr; at that price it is fine for dev work, small-model serving and video pipelines. For anything bigger, an L4 at a small premium is usually the better deal.
Can a T4 run LLM inference?
Yes for small models: a quantized 7B model runs well, a 13B fits tightly at INT8. Larger models do not fit in 16 GB without splitting across cards, and the T4 has no fast GPU-to-GPU interconnect, so multi-card inference is slow.
See also alternatives to the T4 · cheapest GPU-hour per model · inference chips · training chips · by location