The cheapest RTX A5000 on the table right now is $0.020 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai (spot), out of 14 offers from 3 providers. The RTX A5000 carries 24 GB of VRAM on NVIDIA's Ampere generation. That is peer/marketplace capacity — rented from other users' machines, and not directly comparable to a dedicated instance.
On-demand pricing for the same card spans $0.070 to $0.350 per GPU-hour — a 5.0× spread between the cheapest and the most expensive provider for identical silicon. That gap is the entire reason this table exists.
Cheapest by pricing model: on-demand $0.070 at Vast.ai · spot $0.020 at Vast.ai.
| Provider | Tier | $/GPU-hr | Pricing | Node | Commit | In stock | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.020 | spot | 4× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.068 | spot | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.070 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.080 | spot | 2× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.147 | on-demand | 4× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.161 | on-demand | 2× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.220 | spot | 5× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Vast.ai | marketplace | $0.231 | on-demand | 5× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Runpod | dedicated | $0.270 | on-demand | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Runpod | dedicated | $0.270 | spot | 1× GPU | — | yes | rent |
| Massed Compute | dedicated | $0.350 | on-demand | 1–8× GPU | — | — | rent |
How much does an RTX A5000 cost per hour?
As of the latest scrape, $0.020 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai is the cheapest RTX A5000 offer across 3 tracked cloud providers. The cheapest on-demand rate is $0.070 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai, and the most expensive on-demand rate is $0.350 at Massed Compute.
Which cloud is cheapest for the RTX A5000?
Vast.ai at $0.020 per GPU-hour on spot capacity. Prices move constantly, so this page is regenerated from the live scrape every 15 minutes. Note that marketplace tiers are peer hardware and are not directly comparable to dedicated capacity.
Is spot RTX A5000 capacity cheaper?
Yes — the cheapest spot RTX A5000 is $0.020 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai, -72% versus the cheapest on-demand rate of $0.070. Spot instances can be reclaimed by the provider at any time, so they suit checkpointed training and batch inference rather than long-lived services.
How many GB of VRAM does the RTX A5000 have?
24 GB, on the Ampere architecture. Multi-GPU instances multiply that: an 8× RTX A5000 node exposes 192 GB of GPU memory in total.