About NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada
The NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada rental price today is $0.90 per GPU-hour, down 0.9% since yesterday, down 4.8% over the past week and up 5.4% over the past month. At that rate one RTX 6000 Ada costs about $660 for a month of 730 hours. Over the past year it has ranged from $0.73 to $0.95. The index is the price of one benchmark contract: RTX 6000 Ada Generation 48GB PCIe, on-demand, 8-GPU node, US hardware, CPU-neutral. It is standardized across 5 cloud providers and marketplaces, from Vast.ai at $0.66 to Verda (DataCrunch) at $1.50, and is updated every minute.
The RTX 6000 Ada Generation is NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace workstation GPU, announced on September 20, 2022 with 48 GB of GDDR6 memory. It is a PCIe card with no NVLink, and NVIDIA's L40S data-center GPU has the same core counts. NVIDIA built it for desktop workstations, but GPU clouds rent it too. Of the three 6000-series cards with a price index on this site, it comes between the RTX A6000 and the RTX PRO 6000 in age and, on GetDeploying's October 30, 2026 medians, in rental price.
Specifications
| Spec | RTX 6000 Ada |
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| Architecture | Ada Lovelace, 18,176 CUDA cores, 142 RT cores, 568 Tensor cores |
| Memory | 48 GB GDDR6 with ECC, 384-bit, 960 GB/s |
| FP8 tensor | 1,457 TFLOPS with sparsity |
| FP32 | 91.1 TFLOPS |
| Interface | PCIe Gen 4 x16; no NVLink |
| Power | 300 W, active cooling, dual slot |
| Media and virtualization | 3 video encoders and 3 decoders with AV1; NVIDIA vPC/vApps and RTX Virtual Workstation |
Source: NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation and its datasheet, accessed October 30, 2026.
Where the RTX 6000 Ada is rented
DigitalOcean's RTX 6000 Ada GPU Droplets became generally available on May 8, 2025, in its Toronto data centers. GetDeploying tracked 13 providers on October 30, 2026, among them RunPod, Massed Compute, Lium, Verda, Novita, Sesterce and DigitalOcean; none was AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Oracle. Most of its 84 listings that day were for 1 to 4 GPUs, and 6 providers listed 8-GPU machines.
What this price measures
The index is the posted on-demand price of one benchmark contract, an RTX 6000 Ada 48GB in an 8-GPU node of US hardware, rented by the hour from GPU clouds and marketplaces. Prices for other node sizes are converted to that contract with the index's node-size factors, and prices from other regions are counted without a regional adjustment for now. Reserved and spot prices are not counted.
On October 30, 2026, GetDeploying listed 8-GPU RTX 6000 Ada machines on demand at $0.80 per GPU-hour at Lium, the only one in stock, and at $0.66 to $1.22 at Sesterce, $0.77 at Novita, $0.79 at Massed Compute and $1.50 at Verda, all out of stock. Single GPUs started at $0.65 in stock at GPU.ai, against $0.99 at RunPod and $1.57 at DigitalOcean. Its on-demand median was $0.99, across 9 providers.
What moves RTX 6000 Ada rental prices
- Inference that fits on one card. One RTX 6000 Ada can run models up to about 68 billion parameters at 4-bit precision, or 17 billion at 16-bit, with a 32K context, GetDeploying estimates. With no NVLink, its cards exchange data over PCIe.
- Graphics and video as well as AI. NVIDIA built it for rendering, AI, graphics and compute, with RT cores, AV1 video encoders and virtual workstation support.
- Price per performance against the RTX A6000. At launch NVIDIA claimed up to 2 to 4 times the performance of the RTX A6000 in enterprise workflows. On GetDeploying's October 30, 2026 medians an RTX 6000 Ada rented for about 1.7 times an RTX A6000's hourly price, $0.99 against $0.59.
- Newer cards. NVIDIA's RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has twice the memory, 96 GB. On GetDeploying's October 30, 2026 medians an RTX 6000 Ada rented for about 45% of its hourly price, $0.99 against $2.22.
- Few providers. GetDeploying's weekly on-demand median counted 8 to 12 providers a week in the year to October 2026, against 25 to 34 for the L40S. Where a source shows capacity, this index counts a provider only on days when one of its offers had capacity; its posted prices then all count, so an offer going out of stock does not read as a price change (methodology).
Price history
- October 2025 to October 2026: GetDeploying's weekly on-demand provider median was $0.915 per GPU-hour in the week of October 27, 2025, when its public series starts, and between $0.827 and $0.86 from late November to late May. It rose to $1.03 in the week of June 1, 2026, fell to a low of $0.825 in the week of August 17 and reached a high of $1.067 in the week of October 19, while its provider count went from 10 to 11.
- October 30, 2026: the median posted on-demand price was $0.99 per GPU-hour, about 17% higher than 90 days earlier.
This index's history before October 30, 2026, its first day, is GetDeploying's weekly RTX 6000 Ada series, rescaled to join the daily index, counting only weeks with at least 5 providers; every week had at least 8.
Futures and benchmarks
No futures contract or Bloomberg ticker covers the RTX 6000 Ada. CME's filed contracts and the contracts ICE says it will list, with no date set yet, cover the H100 and B200. The GPU futures ICE announced in May 2026 may cover the H100, H200, B200 and RTX 5090 and other GPUs "as the market develops", and the contracts Nodal Exchange plans are for "Hopper, Blackwell and beyond".
FAQ
How does it differ from the RTX A6000 and the RTX PRO 6000? The RTX A6000, an Ampere card announced in 2020, has 48 GB of GDDR6 at 768 GB/s and an NVLink bridge for pairs of cards. The RTX 6000 Ada keeps 48 GB and 300 W, with 960 GB/s, no NVLink and Tensor Cores that add FP8. The RTX PRO 6000, a Blackwell card announced on March 18, 2025, has 96 GB of GDDR7 at 1,597 GB/s and draws up to 600 W. A listing for an "RTX 6000" can also be the Quadro RTX 6000, a 24 GB Turing card from 2018.
How does it differ from the L40S? Both are Ada Lovelace cards with 18,176 CUDA cores and 48 GB of GDDR6. The L40S is NVIDIA's passively cooled data-center card, at 350 W with 864 GB/s and 1,466 TFLOPS of FP8 with sparsity, against the RTX 6000 Ada's active cooling, 300 W, 960 GB/s and 1,457 TFLOPS. On GetDeploying's October 30, 2026 medians the RTX 6000 Ada rented for about 63% of an L40S's hourly price, $0.99 against $1.57.
How often is this index updated? It is recalculated every minute, with one value per day in US Central time that is final when the day ends.
Sources
Text reviewed Oct 30, 2026; the figures in it are as of that date. The figures at the top of this page update every minute.
Cite as: Compute Screener, “NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada rental price index”, computescreener.com/gpu/rtx-6000-ada. The figures are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with credit to Compute Screener.
