Spheron GPU Catalog

Rent NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPUs on Demand from $0.79/hr

24GB GDDR6X Ada Lovelace, the cheapest way to run 7B LLMs in the cloud.

At a glance

You can rent an NVIDIA RTX 4090 on Spheron starting at $0.79/hr per GPU per hour on dedicated (99.99% SLA, non-interruptible), with spot instances cheaper still. Per-minute billing, no contracts, deployed in under 2 minutes across data center partners in multiple regions. The RTX 4090 ships with 24GB GDDR6X, 16,384 CUDA cores, and 4th gen Tensor Cores, giving you the best dollar-per-hour for 7B model inference, LoRA fine-tuning, Stable Diffusion image generation, and general AI prototyping. Good fit for startups, solo developers, and machine learning practitioners who don't need H100-class memory or NVLink interconnect.

GPU ArchitectureNVIDIA Ada Lovelace
VRAM24 GB GDDR6X
Memory Bandwidth1.0 TB/s

Technical specifications

GPU Architecture
NVIDIA Ada Lovelace
VRAM
24 GB GDDR6X
Memory Bandwidth
1.0 TB/s
Tensor Cores
4th Generation
CUDA Cores
16,384
RT Cores
3rd Generation
FP32 Performance
82.6 TFLOPS
FP16 Tensor (dense)
165.2 TFLOPS
FP8 Tensor (dense)
330.3 TFLOPS
INT8 Tensor (dense)
660.6 TOPS
System RAM
24 GB DDR5
vCPUs
8 vCPUs
Storage
500 GB NVMe SSD
Network
PCIe Gen4
TDP
450W

Pricing comparison

ProviderPrice/hrSavings
SpheronYour price
$0.79/hr-
Vast.ai
$0.30/hr-
RunPod (Community)
$0.34/hr-
RunPod (Secure)
$0.59/hr-
NeevCloud
$0.69/hr-
Custom & Reserved

Need More RTX 4090 Than What's Listed?

Reserved Capacity

Commit to a duration, lock in availability and better rates

Custom Clusters

8 to 512+ GPUs, specific hardware, InfiniBand configs on request

Supplier Matchmaking

Spheron sources from its certified data center network, negotiates pricing, handles setup

Need more RTX 4090 capacity? Tell us your requirements and we'll source it from our certified data center network.

Typical turnaround: 24–48 hours

When to pick the RTX 4090

Scenario 01

Pick RTX 4090 if

You're running 7B-class LLM inference, Stable Diffusion image generation, or LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning on a budget. You want the lowest hourly GPU rate and 24GB VRAM is enough for your model. Great fit for Kaggle, prototyping, and cost-sensitive production inference.

Recommended fit
Scenario 02

Pick RTX 5090 instead if

You want Blackwell-generation throughput (roughly 28-50% more tokens/sec on LLMs), 32GB GDDR7, native FP4 support, or you're working with models that are slightly too big for 24GB. Small price bump, meaningful performance lift.

Recommended fit
Scenario 03

Pick L40S instead if

You need 48GB VRAM on a data center SKU with ECC memory, better multi-tenant isolation, and longer production lifecycle support. L40S is purpose-built for inference serving at scale.

Recommended fit
Scenario 04

Pick A100 or H100 instead if

You're fine-tuning or training 30B+ parameter models, need NVLink for multi-GPU, or your workload requires the HBM bandwidth and FP8 Transformer Engine of Hopper. RTX 4090 will be the bottleneck.

Recommended fit

Ideal use cases

Use case / 01
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Cost-efficient AI development

An affordable entry point for AI and ML development. Perfect for individuals and startups building their AI projects.

Model prototyping and experimentationKaggle competitionsPersonal AI projectsStartup MVP development
Use case / 02
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Small Model Fine-Tuning

Efficiently fine-tune 7B parameter models with LoRA and QLoRA techniques. Ideal for domain-specific model adaptation at minimal cost.

LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning (up to 7B)Instruction tuningDomain adaptationAdapter training
Use case / 03
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AI Inference Deployment

Deploy cost-effective inference workloads at scale. Serve 7B models and smaller architectures with excellent throughput per dollar.

7B model servingImage classificationReal-time NLPChatbot deployment
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Creative AI & Content Generation

Run generative AI workloads affordably. One of the best GPUs for Stable Diffusion and other creative AI applications.

Stable Diffusion image generationAI art creationVideo generation prototypingMusic AI models

Performance benchmarks

Llama 3.1 8B (FP16)
~340 tokens/s
vLLM, single stream
Llama 3.1 8B (AWQ 4-bit)
~580 tokens/s
vLLM, batched
Llama 3.1 8B (Q4_K_M)
~140 tokens/s
llama.cpp, single stream
Stable Diffusion XL
~10 img/min
1024x1024, base + refiner
Mistral 7B QLoRA
~520 tokens/s
INT4 fine-tuning
Memory Bandwidth
1,008 GB/s
GDDR6X, 384-bit bus
vs RTX 3090
+60-80%
LLM tokens/s uplift

Serve Llama 3.1 8B on RTX 4090 with vLLM

Spin up an OpenAI-compatible inference endpoint on a single RTX 4090. 24GB fits Llama 3.1 8B in FP16 with a 4K-8K context window depending on batch size.

bash
Spheron
# SSH into your RTX 4090 instancessh root@<instance-ip> # Install vLLM (CUDA 12.x compatible)pip install vllm # Serve Llama 3.1 8B in FP16 on a single RTX 4090vllm serve meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct \  --dtype float16 \  --max-model-len 4096 \  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \  --port 8000 # Test the OpenAI-compatible endpointcurl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \  -d '{    "model": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]  }'

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