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RTX 4090 rental price per hour
What an hour of RTX 4090 costs to rent right now on three sources, what the price did over the last weeks, and when renting beats buying. Read hourly from public listings; described, never forecast.
Vast.ai median of the last seven days: $0.48 per GPU-hour. Against the week before: −16 %. Against 30 days ago: +21 %.
Radar Rent Index
What the RTX 4090 rental price did
One line per source from the same hourly snapshots: the current window against the one before it, and against the first week collected. A source with too few days says so instead of showing a change.
| Source | This week | vs. last week | vs. 30 days ago | Since start | Offers | Day band $/h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vast.ai medianlatest day Oct 1 | $0.48median of 7 days | −16 %down | +21 % | +28 %since Aug 26 · 37 days on record | 64supply steady | $0.31–$0.48min–p75 of the latest day |
| Clore.ai medianlatest day Oct 1 | $0.62median of 7 days | —collecting | — | —collecting | 130no comparison yet | $0.28–$0.75min–p75 of the latest day |
| RunPod fromlatest day Oct 1 | $0.34median of 7 days | 0 %flat | — | —collecting | —no comparison yet | —min–p75 of the latest day |
Excluded as marketplace glitches (a day more than twice or less than half the surrounding days): Vast.ai median Sep 12.
A day is the median of its hourly medians, counting only hours with at least five offers (verified hosts on Vast.ai, free hosts on Clore.ai). A week is the median of its days and needs at least four of them. Words follow fixed thresholds: up or down from ±8 %, sharply from ±20 %; offers up or down from ±15 %. How the index is made →
Price history
Price moves, last 30 days
Day-over-day moves of 10 % or more on a marketplace, and any change of the RunPod list price, between complete days.
- Sep 30 · Clore.ai: −19 % ($0.62 → $0.50)
- Sep 27 · Clore.ai: +20 % ($0.52 → $0.62)
- Sep 26 · Clore.ai: −17 % ($0.62 → $0.52)
- Sep 23 · Vast.ai: +10 % ($0.54 → $0.59)
- Sep 20 · Vast.ai: −23 % ($0.74 → $0.57)
- Sep 19 · Vast.ai: +38 % ($0.53 → $0.74)
- Sep 18 · Vast.ai: −15 % ($0.63 → $0.53)
- Sep 17 · Vast.ai: +17 % ($0.54 → $0.63)
Rent or buy
At the Vast.ai median of $0.46 an hour, the card's launch list price of $1,599 (NVIDIA launch MSRP, Oct 2022) equals 3,482 rented hours — ≈ 8 years at 8 h/week. Electricity and resale value are left out on both sides.
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