# Rent the NVIDIA L40S by the hour

A data-center GPU tuned for inference and graphics. Arrakis lists every available L40S across independent GPU markets, cheapest first, and rents it on one prepaid balance with automatic shutdown.

**Price right now:** No NVIDIA L40S is available on Arrakis right now (checked 13 Oct 2026, 18:39 UTC). Supply changes by the minute, and the console lists new machines as they appear.

## Specifications

- Architecture: NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
- Memory: 48 GB GDDR6 with ECC
- Memory bandwidth: 864 GB/s
- Source: [NVIDIA's L40S page](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/l40s/)

## How the L40S compares

| GPU | Memory | Memory bandwidth | Lowest price per GPU-hour on Arrakis |
|---|---|---|---|
| L40S | 48 GB | 864 GB/s | None available now |
| [RTX 6000 Ada](/gpus/rtx-6000-ada.html.md) | 48 GB | 960 GB/s | $0.70 |
| [A100](/gpus/a100.html.md) | 40 or 80 GB | Up to 2 TB/s on the 80 GB model | $0.65 |

## What people run on it

- Inference with 48 GB of memory
- Fine-tuning mid-size models
- Rendering and video workloads

## Questions

**How much does it cost to rent an L40S?** No NVIDIA L40S is available on Arrakis right now (checked 13 Oct 2026, 18:39 UTC). Supply changes by the minute, and the console lists new machines as they appear. You pay the hourly price shown when you rent, from a prepaid balance. A machine bills from start to removal, and a started hour counts as a full hour.

**Can an AI agent rent the L40S on Arrakis?** Yes. Give the agent a spend-capped token and connect it over MCP or the REST API. It can search for an L40S, rent it for a set number of hours, and shut it down, and it cannot spend past its cap.

**Which L40S configurations can I rent?** It depends on live supply. Each listing shows the exact model, memory, GPU count, CPU and RAM, country and region, and a reliability score, so you can choose the machine that fits.

**Do I get root access?** Yes. You SSH in as root and can run any Docker image, with your own SSH keys and optional volumes for data.


Rent it: [console](/console/#/gpus?gpu_type=L40S), or `arrakis gpus search --gpu-type "L40S"` (cheapest first).
Which GPU fits your model: [How much GPU memory you need](/guides/gpu-memory.html.md).