Rent an L40S in India by the hour
On PowerPod an L40S costs from INR 125 an hour today, billed by the second, on 3 verified hosts. The price you see when you rent is locked for that instance.
What an L40S is good for
Datacenter cards from the Ada generation, strong at inference and at graphics-heavy AI work. With 45 GB of memory it is a good fit for:
- Serving 70B-class models with 4-bit weights (48 GB and up is comfortable)
- Fine-tuning 13B–14B models with LoRA, or 30B-class models with QLoRA
- SDXL and FLUX image generation and LoRA training at large batch sizes
- Long-context inference for 7B–14B models
What common jobs cost on an L40S
Estimated from typical run times and today’s lowest price. Your own job may run faster or slower.
| Job | Typical time | Cost today |
|---|---|---|
| Fine-tune a 7B model | 2.5 h | INR 313 |
| Generate 1,000 images | 0.6 h | INR 75 |
| Transcribe 100 hours of audio | 2.5 h | INR 313 |
| Serve a chat model for an evening | 4 h | INR 500 |
Price over time
Where the hosts are
L40S hosts are listed today in 3 countries: Romania, Taiwan, South Africa. Each offer shows its own measured reliability before you rent.
Typical machine
Median across the hosts listed today; each offer shows its exact machine before you rent.
| Memory bandwidth | 626 GB/s |
| Compute | 73.3 TFLOPS |
| Highest CUDA version | 13.2 |
| CPU cores for you | 24 |
| System memory for you | 16 GB |
| Download speed | 797 Mbps |
Questions
How much does it cost to rent an L40S in India?
On PowerPod an L40S costs from INR 125 an hour today, billed by the second, on 3 verified hosts. The price you see when you rent is locked for that instance.
How much memory does the L40S have?
45 GB of GPU memory (some hosts offer 48 GB).
What can I run on an L40S?
Serving 70B-class models with 4-bit weights (48 GB and up is comfortable). Fine-tuning 13B–14B models with LoRA, or 30B-class models with QLoRA. SDXL and FLUX image generation and LoRA training at large batch sizes. Long-context inference for 7B–14B models.
Can I pay in Indian rupees?
Yes. Accounts in India are billed in Indian rupees: you add credits by card in INR on a secure Stripe page, and every price you see is in INR. The payment is processed abroad, so the card must be enabled for international online payments.