NVIDIA A100 80GB · 80 GB · updated 24 October 2026, 18:09 UTC
A100 80GB rental price:$1.34 an hour today.
NVIDIA's 2020 data-center card (Ampere), with 80 GB. Slower than an H100, and usually much cheaper. What it costs to rent one on other platforms right now, and how the price has moved.
Elsewhere today
$1.34 an hour on Vast.ai.
The typical price of one free A100 80GB on Vast.ai, a GPU marketplace, as of 24 October 2026, 18:09 UTC. We read it every 6 hours, counting every verified, on-demand offer. All cards
- Typical price on Vast.ai
- $1.34/hr
- Middle half of prices
- $1.07–$1.60
- Cheapest available now
- $0.94/hr
- Free on Vast.ai now
- 46
- RunPod, cheapest in stock
- $1.19/hr
Price by day
The typical A100 80GB price, last 90 days.
The line is the typical price each day; the shaded band is the middle half of prices. Hover over a day for its numbers. We started reading on 13 October 2026.
Models it runs
Open models that fit in 80 GB.
Each at the best quality that fits, with room for a short conversation. All models
- Llama 3.1 8B (16-bit): about 18 GB
- Llama 3.3 70B (8-bit): about 76 GB
- Qwen3 8B (16-bit): about 18 GB
- Qwen3 14B (16-bit): about 31 GB
- Qwen3 32B (16-bit): about 67 GB
- Qwen3 30B-A3B (16-bit): about 62 GB
- Qwen3.8 27B (16-bit): about 57 GB
- gpt-oss-20b (MXFP4, as published): about 14 GB
- gpt-oss-120b (MXFP4, as published): about 64 GB
- Gemma 3 27B (16-bit): about 56 GB
- Mistral Small 3.2 24B (16-bit): about 50 GB
- Phi-4 14B (16-bit): about 31 GB
- FLUX.1 [dev] (16-bit, full precision): about 24 GB
- Stable Diffusion XL (Comfortable, with LoRAs and upscaling): about 12 GB
- Z-Image-Turbo (As released, the maker's figure): about 16 GB
- Qwen-Image-2.1 (8-bit, ComfyUI's standard files): about 16 GB
- Wan 2.2 5B (720p, the maker's own script): about 24 GB
Common questions
Questions, answered plainly.
How much does it cost to rent an A100 80GB per hour?
On Vast.ai, as of 24 October 2026, 18:09 UTC, an available A100 80GB typically rented for $1.34 an hour, and half of available cards cost $1.07–$1.60. RunPod's cheapest in stock was $1.19 an hour. Storage and data can cost extra.
How much memory does the A100 80GB have?
80 GB per card. That's enough for a chat model of up to about 131B parameters at 4-bit, with room for a short conversation; at 16-bit, about 39B.
Is an A100 80GB cheaper on Vast.ai or RunPod?
As of 24 October 2026, 18:09 UTC: a typical $1.34 an hour on Vast.ai, and $1.19 as RunPod's cheapest in stock. Each charges separately for storage and data, so compare the total for your job.
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