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title: "L4 vs A10: Specs & Price per Hour (2026) | PowerGPU"
description: "L4 vs A10: 24 vs 24 GB VRAM, 121 vs 125 FP16 TFLOPS, $0.225 vs $0.168/hr on PowerGPU. Specs side by side, live rental prices, which to rent."
url: https://powergpu.ai/compare/l4-vs-a10
last_modified: 2026-09-14T11:04:20+00:00
prices_as_of: 2026-09-14
site: PowerGPU (powergpu.ai)
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Compare · prices checked 2026-09-14

# L4 vs A10: specs, price per hour, which to rent

NVIDIA L4 (24 GB, **$0.225** /hr) against NVIDIA A10 (24 GB, **$0.168** /hr): public specs side by side, live fixed prices from our sheet, what fits in each card's VRAM, and a verdict written for real workloads — both are rentable right now.

- [NVIDIA L4 Ada Lovelace · 24 GB GDDR6 · 121 FP16 TFLOPS · $0.225/hr on-demand · $0.112/hr interruptible · 28 online](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/l4)
- [NVIDIA A10 Ampere · 24 GB GDDR6 · 125 FP16 TFLOPS · $0.168/hr on-demand · $0.084/hr interruptible · 8 online](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/a10)

## L4 vs A10 specifications

Public NVIDIA figures (dense, non-sparsity). The last column is L4 relative to A10.

| Spec | L4 | A10 | Difference |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Architecture | Ada Lovelace (2023) | Ampere (2021) | — |
| VRAM | 24 GB GDDR6 | 24 GB GDDR6 | same |
| Memory bandwidth | 300 GB/s | 600 GB/s | −50% |
| FP16 tensor (dense) | 121 TFLOPS | 125 TFLOPS | −3% |
| FP32 | 30.3 TFLOPS | 31.2 TFLOPS | −3% |
| CUDA cores | 7,680 | 9,216 | −17% |
| TDP | 72 W | 150 W | −52% |
| PCIe · NVLink | Gen 4.0 · no NVLink | Gen 4.0 · no NVLink | — |
| PowerScore (RTX 3090 = 100) | 85 | 88 | −3% |
| Max GPUs per machine | 4× | 8× | — |

## L4 vs A10 price per hour

Fixed rates from our sheet — every on-demand price is the marketplace median × 0.70, rounded down. Monthly = 730 hours.

| Rate | L4 | A10 | Cheaper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| On-demand, per GPU-hour | $0.225 | $0.168 | A10 (−25%) |
| Interruptible, per GPU-hour | $0.112 | $0.084 | A10 |
| Reserved (3 mo), per GPU-hour | $0.146 | $0.109 | A10 |
| On-demand, per month | $164 | $123 | A10 |
| Market median (reference) | $0.32 | $0.24 | — |
| $ per 1,000 FP16 TFLOP-hours | $1.86 | $1.34 | A10 (better value) |
| $ per GB of VRAM per hour | $0.0094 | $0.0070 | A10 (better value) |

Try a full month with storage and bandwidth in the [GPU cost calculator](https://powergpu.ai/calculator).

## What fits in VRAM: 24 GB vs 24 GB

| Workload | L4 | A10 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Largest LLM in FP16, one card | ~8B | ~8B |
| Largest LLM at 4-bit, one card | ~32B | ~32B |
| Flux dev (FP8, ~17 GB) | fits | fits |
| Wan 2.x 14B video (offloaded) | yes | yes |
| 70B 4-bit LLM on one card | no | no |

Rules of thumb: ~2.4 GB per billion parameters in FP16 all-in, ~0.62 GB in 4-bit. Full tables in the [VRAM guide](https://powergpu.ai/guides/llm-vram-requirements).

## Verdict: which should you rent?

Similar 24 GB envelopes: the A10 (Ampere, 150 W) has more CUDA cores and bandwidth; the L4 (Ada, 72 W) has newer tensor cores, FP8 and better video engines. A10 for raw throughput, L4 for efficiency and transcoding.

- **Cheaper per hour:** A10 ($0.168 vs $0.225, −25%).
- **More VRAM:** L4 (24 GB vs 24 GB).
- **More FP16 throughput:** A10 (about 1.0×).
- **Best value per TFLOP-hour:** A10.
- **Best value per GB of VRAM:** A10.
- **Multi-GPU:** L4 over PCIe · A10 over PCIe.

## Related comparisons

[All comparisons](https://powergpu.ai/compare)

- [L4 vs Tesla T4 $0.225 vs $0.103 per hour](https://powergpu.ai/compare/l4-vs-tesla-t4)

## L4 vs A10: FAQ

Deeper reading: [H100 vs H200 vs B200](https://powergpu.ai/guides/h100-vs-h200-vs-b200), [RTX 4090 vs RTX 5090](https://powergpu.ai/guides/rtx-4090-vs-rtx-5090), [how cloud GPU pricing works](https://powergpu.ai/guides/cloud-gpu-pricing-explained).

**Is the A10 faster than the L4?**

On dense FP16 tensor throughput the A10 leads by about 1.0× (125 vs 121 TFLOPS). Memory bandwidth matters as much for inference: L4 300 GB/s vs A10 600 GB/s.

**Which is cheaper to rent, the L4 or the A10?**

The A10: $0.168/hr on-demand versus $0.225/hr — 25% less. Interruptible rates are $0.112 (L4) and $0.084 (A10). Per TFLOP-hour the better value is the A10.

**Which has more VRAM and what does that change?**

The L4 has 24 GB versus 24 GB. In LLM terms that is roughly a 8B FP16 model (or ~32B in 4-bit) on one card against 8B FP16 (~32B 4-bit). If the model does not fit, speed is irrelevant.

**Can I rent both on PowerGPU right now?**

Yes — 28 × L4 and 8 × A10 are online as this page renders, deployable in about 30 seconds, billed per second, paid in crypto with no KYC.

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