- Affordable access to the RTX 5090 is available via on-demand cloud GPU rental
- SaladCloud offers the lowest price at just twenty-five cents per hour
- Flexible GPU leasing gives users powerful computing options without upfront investment
Developers and researchers are increasingly turning to short-term GPU rentals to handle demanding AI workloads without the high cost of ownership, and renting a high-end RTX 5090 graphics card costs much less than expected.
Several cloud platforms now offer Nvidia’s flagship GPU for $3,000 as a short-term rental, with pricing well below a dollar an hour.
The cheapest of the bunch we’ve seen so far comes from SaladCloud with pricing starting at 25 cents per hour for a 32GB RTX 5090 instance.
Affordable choices
The company operates a decentralized cloud platform providing access to over sixty thousand GPUs from both consumer systems and data centers.
SaladCloud allows full customization of GPU, CPU, and memory allocations, so users can tailor performance levels to their workload demands.
At $0.25 per hour, the platform is lower than most traditional providers. Renting an RTX 5090 for a full day from SaladCloud would cost around $6, while a month of continuous use would cost around $180.
Users can choose between priority levels based on work type and resource demand.
Vast.ai, another GPU marketplace, lists RTX 5090 cards at around $0.32 per hour, depending on host reliability, bandwidth, and available CPU pairing.
A sample listing shows a 32GB RTX 5090 paired with an AMD EPYC 9654 processor and 451GB of system memory, running at around 109 TFLOPS.
Novita’s pricing is higher on average, with its RTX 5090 32GB on-demand pricing at $0.63 per hour and $0.32 per hour for spot instances. Higher frequency configurations can reach $0.72 per hour, which is still very affordable.
While these options include predictable billing and centralized support, SaladCloud’s model presents a lower-cost alternative for users more focused on profitability than managed services.
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