L40S 48 GB price per hour
On AWS in September 2026, an hour on an L40S 48 GB cost $1.38 on spot, against $2.69 on-demand: 52% less, comparing the same regions. Spot rose 15% on August.
- Spot, per GPU-hour
- $1.38
- On-demand, per GPU-hour
- $2.69
- Spot discount
- 52%
- Cheapest region
- Stockholm
- eu-north-1
- Spot vs August
- +15%
Daily price per GPU-hour, September 2026
The price in effect at the end of each day on g6e.2xlarge, the cheapest L40S machine per GPU this month. Each point is the median across that day’s regions.
By month
One row per monthly report. The history grows with each one.
| Month | Cloud | Spot / GPU-hr | On-demand / GPU-hr | Spot discount | vs month before |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | AWS | $1.38 | $2.69 | 52% | +15% |
Machines with the L40S 48 GB, September 2026
Hourly prices for the whole machine, cheapest per GPU first. “Region gap” is how many times as much the most expensive region charged as the cheapest.
| Machine | GPUs | Spot | Spot / GPU-hr | On-demand | Cheapest region | Region gap | Regions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| g6e.2xlarge | 1 | $1.383 | $1.383 | $2.693 | Stockholm eu-north-1 | 2.2× | 9 |
| g6e.4xlarge | 1 | $1.616 | $1.616 | $3.608 | Frankfurt eu-central-1 | 1.9× | 9 |
| g6e.xlarge | 1 | $1.637 | $1.637 | $2.235 | Stockholm eu-north-1 | 3.5× | 9 |
| g6e.12xlarge | 4 | $6.623 | $1.656 | $12.601 | Stockholm eu-north-1 | 3.9× | 9 |
| g6e.8xlarge | 1 | $2.083 | $2.083 | $5.439 | Stockholm eu-north-1 | 2.1× | 9 |
| g6e.24xlarge | 4 | $8.581 | $2.145 | $18.093 | Osaka ap-northeast-3 | 3.1× | 9 |
| g6e.48xlarge | 8 | $17.660 | $2.208 | $36.187 | Osaka ap-northeast-3 | 3.3× | 9 |
| g6e.16xlarge | 1 | $2.915 | $2.915 | $9.100 | Osaka ap-northeast-3 | 3.1× | 9 |
Questions
How much does an L40S cost per hour?
On AWS in September 2026, an hour on an L40S 48 GB cost $1.38 on spot, against $2.69 on-demand: 52% less, comparing the same regions. Spot rose 15% on August.
Did the L40S 48 GB price change since August?
September 2026 spot: $1.38 per GPU-hour. Spot rose 15% on August. The change compares only regions priced in both months.
Where is L40S 48 GB spot capacity cheapest?
In September 2026, the cheapest region for g6e.2xlarge was Stockholm (eu-north-1) at $1.00 an hour for the whole 1-GPU machine. The most expensive, N. Virginia (us-east-1), cost 2.2 times as much.
What does an L40S 48 GB cost per GB of memory?
$0.029 per GB of GPU memory per hour on spot in September 2026: $1.38 an hour for 48 GB. GPU memory decides how large a model fits, so this is the fair way to compare cards of different sizes.
Prices are what AWS published, not proof that capacity was available at them. Method and coverage are in the September 2026 report.
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