NVIDIA·Datacenter
A100
NVIDIA's flagship data center GPU for AI training and HPC. Available in 40GB and 80GB HBM2e variants, widely used in cloud rental markets.
Cloud rental pricing
Estimated / month
$407
Hourly
$0.56/hr
Data source
Vast.ai
Market range
$197 – $781
- MSRP
- $10,000
- Availability
- in stock
- Providers
- 7
- Reliability
- 1%
Last price update 9/17/2026, 2:00:34 PM
Hardware specifications
- Architecture
- Ampere
- Release
- May 2020
- Memory
- 40 / 80 GB
- Memory type
- HBM2e
- CUDA cores
- 6,912
- TDP
- 400W
Features
- Tensor Cores
- NVLink
- MIG partitioning
- FP64
- Multi-instance GPU
Use cases
- LLM training
- HPC
- Scientific simulation
- Large-scale inference
Strengths
- • Industry standard for AI
- • Massive memory bandwidth
- • Mature software stack
Considerations
- • High rental cost
- • Power hungry
- • Superseded by H100 for newest workloads
Typical cloud instance specs
Averages from marketplace listings when rental data is available.
- CPU cores
- 26
- System RAM
- 366412 GB
- Disk
- 1420 GB
- Download
- 16983 Mbps
- Upload
- 6156 Mbps
- CUDA
- 13.3
- DL perf
- 176
- CPU
- Xeon®
Price summary
- Low
- $196
- Average
- $471
- High
- $586
Price history
| Date | Price / mo | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 9/17/2026, 2:00:34 PM | $407 | Vast.ai |
| 9/17/2026, 2:00:27 AM | $407 | Vast.ai |
| 9/16/2026, 2:00:33 PM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/16/2026, 2:00:28 AM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/15/2026, 2:00:32 PM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/15/2026, 2:00:28 AM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/14/2026, 2:00:32 PM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/14/2026, 2:00:32 AM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/13/2026, 2:00:34 PM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/13/2026, 2:00:32 AM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/12/2026, 2:00:33 PM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/12/2026, 2:00:34 AM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/11/2026, 2:00:34 PM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/11/2026, 2:00:28 AM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/10/2026, 2:00:33 PM | $407 | Vast.ai |
| 9/10/2026, 2:00:29 AM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/9/2026, 2:00:32 PM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/9/2026, 2:00:29 AM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/8/2026, 2:00:32 PM | $381 | Vast.ai |
| 9/8/2026, 2:00:27 AM | $381 | Vast.ai |