NVIDIA · Updated daily · last refresh 2026-10-01
RTX 5090 pricing
What the NVIDIA RTX 5090 costs right now: 2 tracked on-demand rates, the spread between them, the used market, and what the hourly number turns into when you own the card instead.
The headline on RTX 5090 pricing is the spread: the same card costs 1.3x more at the top of the market than at the bottom. The floor comes from Vast.ai (a peer-to-peer marketplace, cheapest but with host-trust trade-offs), the ceiling from RunPod. Every rate below is an on-demand list price; commit to reserved or spot capacity and 30-70% comes off. The fastest thing you can put in a desktop: 32 GB of GDDR7 at 1.8 TB/s.
RTX 5090 rental prices by provider
| Provider | $/GPU-hr | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Vast.ai | $0.54 | Verified-listing rate, refreshed daily |
| RunPod | $0.69 | Community Cloud |
Buying instead: the used market
Working RTX 5090 pulls currently trade around $2,100, with warrantied refurb channel units above that. Amortized over 36 months at 60% utilization with industrial power, that is an effective ~$0.18 per GPU-hour, below even the cheapest rental in the table above. The crossover depends entirely on your utilization: run your own numbers in the ROI calculator, and read the second-life guide before buying pulled hardware.
Put the price in context
RTX 5090 specs and capability
What this card actually runs: memory, bandwidth, and the models that fit at each precision.
Convert to $/million tokens
Hourly pricing is the input. The estimator turns it into serving cost for any model.
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Common questions
How much does a RTX 5090 cost to rent?
As of 2026-09, RTX 5090 on-demand rental runs from $0.54 per GPU-hour at Vast.ai to $0.69 at RunPod, with a median of $0.61 across the 2 providers we track. Reserved and spot pricing typically runs 30-70% below these list rates.
How much does a used RTX 5090 cost?
Working RTX 5090 pulls trade around $2,100 as of 2026-09, with warrantied refurbished units priced higher. At that price and 60% utilization, ownership works out to roughly $0.18 per GPU-hour over three years including power.
*Owned effective rate: 36-month amortization, 60% utilization, $0.08/kWh with cooling overhead; hosting and ops labor excluded. Full methodology.