NVIDIA RTX A6000 · 48 GB · updated 24 October 2026, 18:09 UTC
RTX A6000 rental price:$0.40 an hour today.
A 48 GB workstation card from 2020 (Ampere). Usually the cheapest way to rent 48 GB on one card. What it costs to rent one on other platforms right now, and how the price has moved.
Elsewhere today
$0.40 an hour on Vast.ai.
The typical price of one free RTX A6000 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
- $0.40/hr
- Middle half of prices
- $0.39–$0.40
- Cheapest available now
- $0.39/hr
- Free on Vast.ai now
- 4
- RunPod, cheapest in stock
- out of stock
Price by day
The typical RTX A6000 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 48 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 (4-bit): about 44 GB
- Qwen3 8B (16-bit): about 18 GB
- Qwen3 14B (16-bit): about 31 GB
- Qwen3 32B (8-bit): about 36 GB
- Qwen3 30B-A3B (8-bit): about 34 GB
- Qwen3.8 27B (8-bit): about 31 GB
- gpt-oss-20b (MXFP4, as published): about 14 GB
- Gemma 3 27B (8-bit): about 30 GB
- Mistral Small 3.2 24B (8-bit): about 27 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 RTX A6000 per hour?
On Vast.ai, as of 24 October 2026, 18:09 UTC, an available RTX A6000 typically rented for $0.40 an hour, and half of available cards cost $0.39–$0.40. Storage and data can cost extra.
How much memory does the RTX A6000 have?
48 GB per card. That's enough for a chat model of up to about 78B parameters at 4-bit, with room for a short conversation; at 16-bit, about 23B.
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