Compare RTX 4090 prices across 5 cloud providers. On-demand from $0.40/hr.
The NVIDIA RTX 4090 is a consumer GPU that has become the de facto choice for individual researchers, small teams, and cost-sensitive inference. Its 24 GB of GDDR6X and Ada Lovelace Tensor Cores deliver performance rivaling datacenter GPUs at a fraction of the cost. The trade-off: no ECC, no NVLink, and a 24 GB VRAM ceiling. But for workloads that fit, nothing else comes close on cost-per-FLOP.
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace (AD102) |
| GPU Memory | 24 GB GDDR6X |
| Memory Bandwidth | 1,008 GB/s |
| FP16 Tensor Core | 330 TFLOPS |
| TDP | 450W |
| Interconnect | PCIe Gen4 x16 |
| Release Year | 2022 |
The RTX 4090 is the cheapest high-performance GPU in the cloud, starting around $0.18/hr on marketplace providers. It is offered almost exclusively by neocloud and bare-metal providers. For any workload fitting in 24 GB, it consistently delivers the best performance per dollar.
No provider held 1× RTX 4090 ≥80% available across all 7 days. Polled hourly · 4 providers tracked · 7-day window.
| Provider | Fri15 | Sat16 | Sun17 | Mon18 | Tue19 | Wed20 | Thu21 | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RunPod | 50% | |||||||
| Vast | 49% | |||||||
| Shadeform | 41% | |||||||
| Theta EdgeCloud | 0% |
| Provider | Instance Type | GPUs | On-Demand | Spot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vast | 1x-RTX_4090-32-65536 | 1 | $0.40 Limited | $0.39 |
| Vast | 1x-RTX_4090-32-65536 | 1 | $0.40 Limited | $0.00 |
| Theta EdgeCloud | community-rtx-4090-x1 | 1 | $0.52 Limited | N/A |
| Shadeform | excesssupply_RTX4090 | 1 | $0.60 Out of stock | N/A |
| RunPod | 1x_RTX4090_SECURE | 1 | $0.69 Limited | $0.69 |
| Vast | 2x-RTX_4090-32-65536 | 2 | $0.80 Limited | $0.00 |
| Vast | 2x-RTX_4090-32-65536 | 2 | $0.88 Limited | $0.86 |
| RunPod | 2x_RTX4090_SECURE | 2 | $1.38 Limited | $1.38 |
| Vast | 4x-RTX_4090-32-65536 | 4 | $1.49 Limited | $0.00 |
| Vast | 4x-RTX_4090-32-65536 | 4 | $1.65 Limited | $1.56 |
| RunPod | 3x_RTX4090_SECURE | 3 | $2.07 Limited | $2.07 |
| Vast | 5x-RTX_4090-32-65536 | 5 | $2.20 Unknown | $0.00 |
| Shadeform | excesssupply_RTX4090x4 | 4 | $2.40 Out of stock | N/A |
| RunPod | 4x_RTX4090_SECURE | 4 | $2.76 Limited | $2.76 |
| Vast | 8x-RTX_4090-32-65536 | 8 | $2.77 Limited | $0.00 |
| Vast | 8x-RTX_4090-32-65536 | 8 | $3.04 Limited | $2.67 |
| Shadeform | phyntec_RTX4090x8 | 8 | $3.20 Out of stock | N/A |
| RunPod | 5x_RTX4090_SECURE | 5 | $3.45 Limited | $3.45 |
| Vast | 10x-RTX_4090-32-65536 | 10 | $4.00 Unknown | $3.60 |
| RunPod | 6x_RTX4090_SECURE | 6 | $4.14 Limited | $4.14 |
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