- Affordable access to RTX 5090 is available through on-demand cloud GPU rental
- SaladCloud offers the lowest price at just twenty-five cents an hour
- Flexible GPU leasing gives users powerful computing options with no 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 top-tier RTX 5090 graphics card costs much less than you might expect.
Several cloud platforms now offer Nvidia’s $3,000 flagship GPU for short-term lease, with prices well below a dollar an hour.
The cheapest of the bunch we’ve seen so far is SaladCloud with prices starting at 25 cents per hour for a 32GB RTX 5090 instance.
Affordable options
The company operates a decentralized cloud platform that offers access to more than sixty thousand GPUs from data center and consumer systems.
SaladCloud allows full customization of GPU, CPU, and memory allocations, so users can tailor performance levels to their workload requirements.
At $0.25 per hour, the platform outperforms most traditional providers. Renting an RTX 5090 for a full day on SaladCloud would cost around $6, while a month of continuous use would cost around $180.
Users can choose between priority levels depending on the type of work and resource demand.
Vast.ai, another GPU marketplace, offers RTX 5090 cards for around $0.32 per hour, depending on host reliability, bandwidth, and available CPU pairing.
An example listing shows a 32GB RTX 5090 paired with an AMD EPYC 9654 processor and 451GB of system memory, running at approximately 109 TFLOPS.
Novita’s pricing is higher on average, with its RTX 5090 32GB on-demand rate at $0.63 per hour and $0.32 per hour for spot instances. Higher frequency settings can reach $0.72 per hour, which is still very affordable.
Although these options include predictable billing and centralized support, SaladCloud’s model presents a lower-cost alternative for users more focused on cost efficiency than managed services.
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