NVIDIA RTX 3060 (12GB GDDR6)
- 12GB GDDR6
- Memory
- 360GB/s
- Memory bandwidth
- Q1 2021
- Released
Price history
What it costs to rent an NVIDIA RTX 3060
The NVIDIA RTX 3060 is an Ampere-architecture desk-side NVIDIA GPU with 12GB of GDDR6 memory and 360 GB/s of memory bandwidth, released Q1 2021. It is built for development, inference and smaller training runs.
Renting one currently costs between $0.03 and $0.16 per GPU-hour across the 5 cloud providers we track, with a median of $0.07. The cheapest live rate is $0.03/hr from Salad (Spot), and hosting one pays about $0.25/hr on SimplePod while it is running. All rates below are normalised to a single GPU per hour so providers with multi-GPU nodes compare like-for-like.
Where to rent the RTX 3060
How we rank
The median is one provider, one vote: each provider contributes the median of its own on-demand listings, then the headline is the median across providers — so no single marketplace or hyperscaler sets the price alone. Below two providers we show the range instead.
Default order is relevance, weighed the way a buyer would: price per GPU first, lightly blended with total node cost; on-demand preferred over spot and reserved when prices are close; established clouds edged above marketplaces; in-stock, recently-checked offers above stale ones; and no single provider is allowed to crowd the top. Click a column to sort by the raw numbers. No paid placements — ranking is never sold.
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| Provider | Tier | Config | Total VRAM | Billing | Availability | Go to provider | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 SaladBest | GPU cloud | 1× RTX 3060 | 12GB | Spot | $0.03 | $0.03 | Rent | |
 Clore.ai | GPU cloud | 5× RTX 3060 | 60GB | On-demand | $0.03 | $0.17 | Rent | |
| Salad | GPU cloud | 1× RTX 3060 | 12GB | Spot | $0.04 | $0.04 | Rent | |
 OctaSpace | GPU cloud | 2× RTX 3060 | 24GB | On-demand | $0.05 | $0.10 | Rent | |
| Clore.ai | GPU cloud | 3× RTX 3060 | 36GB | On-demand | $0.05 | $0.14 | Rent | |
 Vast.ai | GPU cloud | 5× RTX 3060 | 60GB | Spot | $0.05 | $0.24 | Rent | |
| Clore.ai | GPU cloud | 1× RTX 3060 | 12GB | On-demand | $0.05 | $0.05 | Rent | |
| Salad | GPU cloud | 1× RTX 3060 | 12GB | Community | $0.05 | $0.05 | Rent | |
| Clore.ai | GPU cloud | 2× RTX 3060 | 24GB | On-demand | $0.05 | $0.11 | Rent | |
| Vast.ai | GPU cloud | 5× RTX 3060 | 60GB | On-demand | $0.06 | $0.30 | Rent | |
| Vast.ai | GPU cloud | 6× RTX 3060 | 72GB | Spot | $0.05 | $0.32 | Rent | |
| Salad | GPU cloud | 1× RTX 3060 | 12GB | Community | $0.05 | $0.05 | Rent | |
| Clore.ai | GPU cloud | 8× RTX 3060 | 96GB | On-demand | $0.05 | $0.42 | Rent | |
| Vast.ai | GPU cloud | 8× RTX 3060 | 96GB | Spot | $0.05 | $0.43 | Rent | |
 SimplePod | GPU cloud | 1× RTX 3060 | 12GB | On-demand | $0.10 | $0.10 | Rent | |
| OctaSpace | GPU cloud | 1× RTX 3060 | 12GB | On-demand | $0.09 | $0.09 | Rent | |
| Vast.ai | GPU cloud | 9× RTX 3060 | 108GB | Spot | $0.05 | $0.48 | Rent | |
| Salad | GPU cloud | 1× RTX 3060 | 12GB | Reserved | $0.06 | $0.06 | Rent | |
| Vast.ai | GPU cloud | 6× RTX 3060 | 72GB | On-demand | $0.07 | $0.40 | Rent | |
| Clore.ai | GPU cloud | 6× RTX 3060 | 72GB | On-demand | $0.07 | $0.42 | Rent | |
| Salad | GPU cloud | 1× RTX 3060 | 12GB | Reserved | $0.07 | $0.07 | Rent | |
| Salad | GPU cloud | 1× RTX 3060 | 12GB | On-demand | $0.08 | $0.08 | Rent | |
| Vast.ai | GPU cloud | 7× RTX 3060 | 84GB | Spot | $0.07 | $0.47 | Rent | |
| Vast.ai | GPU cloud | 9× RTX 3060 | 108GB | On-demand | $0.07 | $0.64 | Rent | |
| Clore.ai | GPU cloud | 9× RTX 3060 | 108GB | On-demand | $0.08 | $0.75 | Rent | |
| Vast.ai | GPU cloud | 8× RTX 3060 | 96GB | On-demand | $0.07 | $0.59 | Rent | |
| Vast.ai | GPU cloud | 12× RTX 3060 | 144GB | Spot | $0.06 | $0.70 | Rent | |
| Vast.ai | GPU cloud | 7× RTX 3060 | 84GB | On-demand | $0.08 | $0.55 | Rent | |
| Vast.ai | GPU cloud | 12× RTX 3060 | 144GB | On-demand | $0.08 | $0.95 | Rent | |
| Clore.ai | GPU cloud | 4× RTX 3060 | 48GB | On-demand | $0.16 | $0.62 | Rent |
Earn by hosting the RTX 3060
How this is worked out
“Renters pay” is the median live rate for this GPU on that marketplace — the median, not the floor, because the cheapest listing is one host undercutting everyone. “You earn” is that figure less the platform’s cut.
“Per day” is a ceiling: 24 hours, every hour rented, which no host achieves — scale it by the utilisation you expect. A card sitting idle earns nothing.Fees marked as published come from the platform’s terms; the rest are our estimates, labelled on each row.
Technical specifications
- Memory
- 12 GB GDDR6
- Memory bandwidth
- 360 GB/s
- Architecture
- Ampere
- Board power (TDP)
- 170 W
- Released
- Q1 2021
- Class
- Desk-side
- Cloud providers
- 5 tracked
- Price range
- $0.03 – $0.16 / GPU / hr
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