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Rent Nvidia A100.
Ampere
80GB VRAM
400W
From $0.48/hr
Per hour
$0.48
Per day
$11.52
Per week
$80.64
Per month
$346
Provider spread
11 providers ·
up to 77% cheaper at the low end
Cheapest · $0.48/hr on TensorDock
Median $1.10/hr
Most expensive · $2.10/hr on Oblivus
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Workloads
Suitable workloads.
AI models that fit
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Run these on this GPU.
- Llama 3.3 70B 2× · fp16
- Mixtral 8x22B 4× · fp16
- Qwen 2.5 72B 2× · fp16
Cloud instances
See all 9 →
Hyperscaler bundles.
Pre-configured on 9 clouds — from $0.78/hr total
($0.78/hr per GPU).
FAQ
Frequently asked.
What AI models can I run on a Nvidia A100?
The grid above lists every open-weights model with a recommended GPU configuration for this card. Each row tells you the minimum GPU count and the quantization level (FP16, FP8, INT8, INT4) needed to load the model in 80GB of VRAM.
What's the VRAM minimum to run a model on the Nvidia A100?
Rule of thumb: a model needs roughly (parameters × bytes-per-weight × 1.2) of VRAM to load, plus headroom for the KV cache during inference. FP16 = 2 bytes/weight, FP8/INT8 = 1 byte, INT4 = 0.5 bytes. A 70B model at FP16 needs ~168GB; at INT4 it drops to ~42GB and fits a single high-VRAM card.
How does quantization (FP16 vs FP8 vs INT4) affect what fits?
Lower-precision quantization shrinks the memory footprint nearly linearly with the bit count. The trade-off is output quality: FP16 is the reference, FP8 is usually indistinguishable for most prompts, INT8 introduces small quality losses, INT4 is noticeably degraded on reasoning-heavy tasks but fine for chat. The badge on each row tells you which level the recommendation assumes.
Can I fine-tune on the Nvidia A100 or only do inference?
Fine-tuning needs 4–8× more VRAM than inference at the same model size — gradients, optimizer state, and activations all live in memory. LoRA / QLoRA cut that overhead dramatically (often 4–10×). The notes column flags whether a row is an inference-only recommendation or includes a fine-tuning path.
Where do these GPU-count recommendations come from?
We curate them from official model cards, community benchmark threads (r/LocalLLaMA, HuggingFace forum), and known-good configurations published by the model makers. Each recommendation has been verified to load at the stated quantization on the listed GPU count — though throughput and context-length still vary by workload.
Cloud instance options
Pre-configured instances on hyperscalers.
Whole-instance bundles (GPU + vCPU + RAM + disk) on the major clouds. Per-GPU rate often drops as the count rises. View = spec page · Launch = sign up (affiliate).
Cheapest bundle
$0.78/hr
Lowest $/hr per GPU
$0.78/hr
Providers
9
Instance shapes
9
| Provider | Instance | GPUs | vCPU | RAM | Disk | $/hr | $/hr per GPU | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tnr-a100-on-demand | 1× | — | — | — | $0.78/hr | $0.78/hr | ||
| a100-40gb-pcie | 1× | — | — | — | $0.99/hr | $0.99/hr | ||
| gpu_1x_a100_40gb | 1× | — | — | — | $1.10/hr | $1.10/hr | ||
| nova-a100-on-demand | 1× | — | — | — | $1.79/hr | $1.79/hr | ||
| ace-a100-on-demand | 1× | — | — | — | $1.85/hr | $1.85/hr | ||
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vm-a100-40g | 1× | — | — | — | $2.10/hr | $2.10/hr | |
| ND96amsr_A100_v4 | 8× | — | — | — | $25.60/hr | $3.20/hr | ||
| p4d.24xlarge | 8× | — | — | — | $25.60/hr | $3.20/hr | ||
| a2-highgpu-8g | 8× | — | — | — | $29.36/hr | $3.67/hr |
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FAQ
Cloud instances — common questions.
What AI models can I run on a Nvidia A100?
The grid above lists every open-weights model with a recommended GPU configuration for this card. Each row tells you the minimum GPU count and the quantization level (FP16, FP8, INT8, INT4) needed to load the model in 80GB of VRAM.
What's the VRAM minimum to run a model on the Nvidia A100?
Rule of thumb: a model needs roughly (parameters × bytes-per-weight × 1.2) of VRAM to load, plus headroom for the KV cache during inference. FP16 = 2 bytes/weight, FP8/INT8 = 1 byte, INT4 = 0.5 bytes. A 70B model at FP16 needs ~168GB; at INT4 it drops to ~42GB and fits a single high-VRAM card.
How does quantization (FP16 vs FP8 vs INT4) affect what fits?
Lower-precision quantization shrinks the memory footprint nearly linearly with the bit count. The trade-off is output quality: FP16 is the reference, FP8 is usually indistinguishable for most prompts, INT8 introduces small quality losses, INT4 is noticeably degraded on reasoning-heavy tasks but fine for chat. The badge on each row tells you which level the recommendation assumes.
Can I fine-tune on the Nvidia A100 or only do inference?
Fine-tuning needs 4–8× more VRAM than inference at the same model size — gradients, optimizer state, and activations all live in memory. LoRA / QLoRA cut that overhead dramatically (often 4–10×). The notes column flags whether a row is an inference-only recommendation or includes a fine-tuning path.
Where do these GPU-count recommendations come from?
We curate them from official model cards, community benchmark threads (r/LocalLLaMA, HuggingFace forum), and known-good configurations published by the model makers. Each recommendation has been verified to load at the stated quantization on the listed GPU count — though throughput and context-length still vary by workload.
AI models
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Models that run on this GPU.
GPU-count + quantization recommendations covering fine-tuning, inference, and run-it-yourself scenarios on the Nvidia A100.
Llama 3.3 70B
by Meta AI
Required GPUs
2× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
160 GB
Parameters
70B
Context
128K tokens
Mixtral 8x22B
by Mistral AI
Required GPUs
4× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
320 GB
Parameters
141B (39B active)
Context
66K tokens
Qwen 2.5 72B
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
2× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
160 GB
Parameters
73B
Context
128K tokens
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
by DeepSeek
Required GPUs
2× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
160 GB
Parameters
70B
Context
128K tokens
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
by DeepSeek
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
33B
Context
128K tokens
Llama 3.1 70B
by Meta AI
Required GPUs
2× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
160 GB
Parameters
70B
Context
128K tokens
Gemma 2 27B
by Google DeepMind
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
27B
Context
8K tokens
Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
27B
Context
262K tokens
Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
27B
Context
262K tokens
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B
by Nvidia
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
262K tokens
AllenAI: Olmo 3 32B Think
by Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
66K tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
262K tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
131K tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
262K tokens
Tongyi DeepResearch 30B A3B
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
131K tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
131K tokens
Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B
by Baidu
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
28B
Context
131K tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
160K tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
262K tokens
Z.ai: GLM 4 32B
by Zhipu AI
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
128K tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
131K tokens
Qwen: Qwen3 32B
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
131K tokens
Qwen2.5 32B
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
131K tokens
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3b Reasoning Fp8
by Nvidia
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
131K tokens
Cogito V1 Preview Qwen 32B
by Deepcogito
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
131K tokens
Gemma 3 27B It
by Google DeepMind
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
27B
Context
66K tokens
Qwen QwQ-32B
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
131K tokens
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
16K tokens
Qwen3 30B A3b Base
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
33K tokens
Gemma 3 27B Pt
by Google DeepMind
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
27B
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 Lora
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
262K tokens
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3b Bf16
by Nvidia
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
262K tokens
Medgemma 27B Text It
by Google DeepMind
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
27B
Context
131K tokens
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
33K tokens
Gemma 3 27B It Lora
by Google DeepMind
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
27B
Gemma 4 31B It Lora
by Google DeepMind
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
31B
Context
262K tokens
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning
by Nvidia
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
262K tokens
gemma-4-31B-it-turbo
by Google DeepMind
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
31B
Context
262K tokens
DeepSeek V3
by DeepSeek
Required GPUs
8× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
640 GB
Parameters
671B (37B active)
Context
128K tokens
DeepSeek R1
by DeepSeek
Required GPUs
8× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
640 GB
Parameters
671B (37B active)
Context
128K tokens
FLUX.1 Dev
by Black Forest Labs
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
12B
Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large
by Stability AI
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
8B
Llama 3.1 405B
by Meta AI
Required GPUs
8× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
640 GB
Parameters
405B
Context
128K tokens
Llama 3.2 11B Vision
by Meta AI
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
11B
Context
128K tokens
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
33B
Context
128K tokens
Gemma 3 27B
by Google DeepMind
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
27B (27B active)
Context
128K tokens
Mistral Large 2
by Mistral AI
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
123B
Context
128K tokens
Command R+
by Cohere
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
104B
Context
128K tokens
GPT-OSS 120B
by OpenAI
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
120B (5B active)
Context
128K tokens
GLM-4.5-Air
by Zhipu AI
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
106B (12B active)
Context
128K tokens
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super
by Nvidia
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
120B
Context
1M tokens
Qwen: Qwen3.5-122B-A10B
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
122B
Context
262K tokens
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12b Fp8
by Nvidia
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
120B
Context
262K tokens
Nvidia Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12b Bf16
by Nvidia
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
120B
Context
262K tokens
Qwen3.5 122B A10b Fp8
by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
122B
Context
262K tokens
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B
by Nvidia
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
120B
Context
262K tokens
gpt-oss-120b-Turbo
by OpenAI
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100
Total VRAM
80 GB
Parameters
120B
Context
131K tokens
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FAQ
AI models on this GPU.
What AI models can I run on a Nvidia A100?
The grid above lists every open-weights model with a recommended GPU configuration for this card. Each row tells you the minimum GPU count and the quantization level (FP16, FP8, INT8, INT4) needed to load the model in 80GB of VRAM.
What's the VRAM minimum to run a model on the Nvidia A100?
Rule of thumb: a model needs roughly (parameters × bytes-per-weight × 1.2) of VRAM to load, plus headroom for the KV cache during inference. FP16 = 2 bytes/weight, FP8/INT8 = 1 byte, INT4 = 0.5 bytes. A 70B model at FP16 needs ~168GB; at INT4 it drops to ~42GB and fits a single high-VRAM card.
How does quantization (FP16 vs FP8 vs INT4) affect what fits?
Lower-precision quantization shrinks the memory footprint nearly linearly with the bit count. The trade-off is output quality: FP16 is the reference, FP8 is usually indistinguishable for most prompts, INT8 introduces small quality losses, INT4 is noticeably degraded on reasoning-heavy tasks but fine for chat. The badge on each row tells you which level the recommendation assumes.
Can I fine-tune on the Nvidia A100 or only do inference?
Fine-tuning needs 4–8× more VRAM than inference at the same model size — gradients, optimizer state, and activations all live in memory. LoRA / QLoRA cut that overhead dramatically (often 4–10×). The notes column flags whether a row is an inference-only recommendation or includes a fine-tuning path.
Where do these GPU-count recommendations come from?
We curate them from official model cards, community benchmark threads (r/LocalLLaMA, HuggingFace forum), and known-good configurations published by the model makers. Each recommendation has been verified to load at the stated quantization on the listed GPU count — though throughput and context-length still vary by workload.