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Lambda pricing and limits

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lambda.ai · GPU compute
OCT 2026 audit

GPU cloud from an AI hardware vendor, billed by the minute per GPU with no egress fees.

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Entry paid planPay-as-you-go per GPU-hour rather than a monthly plan: the cheapest self-serve instance is a 1x Quadro RTX 6000 at $0.69 per GPU-hour plus sales tax.
Regions14 On-Demand Cloud regions: nine in the USA plus Tokyo, Osaka, India, Germany and Israel. Not every instance type is available in every region.
CategoryGPU compute

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 19 criteria compared

Lambda pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
Pay-as-you-go per GPU-hour rather than a monthly plan: the cheapest self-serve instance is a 1x Quadro RTX 6000 at $0.69 per GPU-hour plus… source ↗
Pricing model
On-Demand instances are priced by hourly usage and billed in one-minute increments; 1-Click Clusters per GPU per hour billed weekly… source ↗
Egress over allowance
Free source ↗

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Lambda plans and prices

On-demand GPU pricesOn-demand prices in USD per GPU-hour from Lambda's instances page, billed by the minute, plus applicable sales tax/VAT/GST. Lambda sells 8x, 4x, 2x and 1x GPU instances; each GPU is shown at its single-GPU (1x) rate, and the A100 SXM 80 GB and Tesla V100, listed only as 8x instances, at their 8x per-GPU rate.
GPUVRAM per GPUvCPUs / RAMPrice per GPU-hourInstance
NVIDIA B200 SXM6180 GB26 / 360 GiB$6.99Single-GPU instance
NVIDIA H100 SXM80 GB26 / 225 GiB$4.29Single-GPU instance
NVIDIA H100 PCIe80 GB26 / 225 GiB$3.29Single-GPU instance
NVIDIA A100 SXM40 GB30 / 220 GiB$1.99Single-GPU instance
NVIDIA A100 PCIe40 GB30 / 225 GiB$1.99Single-GPU instance
NVIDIA A1024 GB30 / 226 GiB$1.29Single-GPU instance
NVIDIA A600048 GB14 / 100 GiB$1.09Single-GPU instance
NVIDIA A100 SXM80 GB240 / 1800 GiB$2.798x instance only
NVIDIA Tesla V10016 GB88 / 448 GiB$0.798x instance only

Rent NVIDIA GPUs on demand: H100, H200, and B200 | Lambda · read · every row quoted from this page

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Renting exactly the instance shape you need — Lambda publishes 1x, 2x, 4x and 8x plans for the same card, so a single H100 is a real product rather than a fraction of a node.

Consider something else if…

You want the cheapest single H100: its H100 SXM is $4.29 per GPU-hour single-card, more than Hyperstack ($3.20) and RunPod ($3.99) charge for the same card, though under Crusoe and Nebius at $4.50, and reserved capacity is quoted through sales rather than published.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Lambda pricing

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Entry paid planPay-as-you-go per GPU-hour rather than a monthly plan: the cheapest self-serve instance is a 1x Quadro RTX 6000 at $0.69 per GPU-hour plus sales tax.
Sources (1) →
Pricing modelOn-Demand instances are priced by hourly usage and billed in one-minute increments; 1-Click Clusters per GPU per hour billed weekly; filesystems per GiB used per month.
Sources (1) →
  • Billing overview - Lambda Docs ↗

    “ODC prices instances by hourly usage and bills in one-minute increments. [...] 1CCs are priced per GPU per hour and billed in weekly increments according to the terms of your reservation. [...] Filesystems are billed per GiB used per month in one-hour increments.”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official docs · Report a correction

Egress over allowanceFree. Lambda states transparent pricing with no egress fees.
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Infrastructure

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Regions14 On-Demand Cloud regions: nine in the USA plus Tokyo, Osaka, India, Germany and Israel. Not every instance type is available in every region.
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  • Overview - Lambda Docs ↗

    “Lambda resources are hosted in multiple locations worldwide. Not every instance type will be available in every region. [...] asia-northeast-1 Tokyo, Japan asia-northeast-2 Osaka, Japan asia-south-1 India europe-central-1 Germany me-west-1 Israel [...] us-east-1 Virginia, USA us-east-2 Washington DC, USA us-midwest-1 Illinois, USA us-south-1 Texas, USA us-south-2 North Texas, USA us-south-3 Central Texas, USA us-west-1 California, USA us-west-2 Arizona, USA us-west-3 Utah, USA”

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GPU

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H100 SXM, per GPU-hour$4.29 per GPU-hour for H100 SXM 80GB on a single-GPU instance, falling to $3.99 on an 8-GPU node. The PCIe variant is $3.29.
Sources (1) →
  • GPU Cloud — Lambda ↗

    “NVIDIA H100 SXM 80 GB 26 225 GiB 2.75 TiB SSD $4.29 NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80 GB 26 225 GiB 1 TiB SSD $3.29 [...] Launch GPU instance 8x 4x 2x 1x Plan VRAM/GPU vCPUs RAM STORAGE PRICE/GPU/HR* NVIDIA B200 SXM6 180 GB 208 2900 GiB 22 TiB SSD $6.69 NVIDIA H100 SXM 80 GB 208 1800 GiB 22 TiB SSD $3.99”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official pricing · Report a correction

Cheapest GPU, per hour$0.69 per GPU-hour for a Quadro RTX 6000 with 24GB; the V100 is $0.79 and the A6000 $1.09.
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  • GPU Cloud — Lambda ↗

    “NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 24 GB 14 46 GiB 512 GiB SSD $0.69 [...] NVIDIA Tesla V100 16 GB 88 448 GiB 5.8 TiB SSD $0.79 [...] NVIDIA A6000 48 GB 14 100 GiB 512 GiB SSD $1.09”

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Largest GPU offered180GB per GPU on B200 SXM6, from $6.69 per GPU-hour on an 8-GPU node to $6.99 on a single GPU.
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Billing granularityBy the minute.
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Reserved pricingReserved capacity is quote-only. Committed 1-Click Clusters list $6.16-$5.54 per H100 GPU-hour and $9.86-$8.87 per B200 GPU-hour for 2 weeks-1 year, 16 to 256 GPUs.
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  • GPU cloud pricing: rent NVIDIA H100, H200, and B200 | Lambda ↗

    “Contact us for reserved capacity at our lowest prices. [...] NVIDIA HGX B200 2 weeks – 1 year 16 $9.86 Talk to our team NVIDIA HGX B200 2 weeks – 1 year 64 $9.36 Talk to our team NVIDIA HGX B200 2 weeks – 1 year 256+ $8.87 Talk to our team NVIDIA HGX B200 1 year+ 16+ — Talk to our team [...] NVIDIA H100 2 weeks – 1 year 16 $6.16 Talk to our team NVIDIA H100 2 weeks – 1 year 64 $5.85 Talk to our team NVIDIA H100 2 weeks – 1 year 256 $5.54 Talk to our team NVIDIA H100 1 year+ 16+ — Talk to our team”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official pricing · Report a correction

Compliance

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SOC 2SOC 2 Type II attestation, listed under the security and compliance pillar of Lambda's trust framework.
Sources (1) →
  • Trust | Lambda ↗

    “SOC 2 Type II attestation. ISO 27001, 27017, 27701, and 22301 certified. Strict access controls, MFA, continuous monitoring.”

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ISO 27001ISO 27001 certified, alongside ISO 27017, 27701 and 22301.
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  • Trust | Lambda ↗

    “ISO 27001, 27017, 27701, and 22301 certified. Strict access controls, MFA, continuous monitoring. Customer-governed access (revoke Lambda credentials anytime).”

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HIPAAPlatform Guidelines, binding with the Cloud Terms of Service, prohibit submitting personal health information to the Services. Contractual prohibition on PHI, not a statement about a HIPAA audit or BAA.
Sources (1) →
  • Terms of Service | Lambda ↗

    “These Platform Guidelines are intended to be read together with Lambda's Cloud Terms of Service [...] (x) submit any sensitive personal data or information to the Services (including government issued identification numbers, financial account information, payment card information, and personal health information) to the Services”

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GDPR / data residencyProcesses European personal data under the GDPR and relies primarily on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses for EEA, UK and Swiss transfers.
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  • Privacy Policy | Lambda ↗

    “We rely primarily on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses to facilitate the international and onward transfer of personal information collected in the European Economic Area ("EEA"), the United Kingdom and Switzerland [...] Pursuant to the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, the UK General Data Protection Regulation (collectively, the "GDPR")”

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PCI DSSPlatform Guidelines, binding with the Cloud Terms of Service, prohibit submitting payment card or financial account information to the Services. Contractual prohibition on cardholder data, not a statement about a PCI DSS assessment.
Sources (1) →
  • Terms of Service | Lambda ↗

    “These Platform Guidelines are intended to be read together with Lambda's Cloud Terms of Service [...] (x) submit any sensitive personal data or information to the Services (including government issued identification numbers, financial account information, payment card information, and personal health information) to the Services”

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Encryption at restAll data on the 1-Click Cluster persistent file storage system is encrypted at rest using industry standard algorithms and parameters.
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  • Security posture - Lambda Docs ↗

    “All 1CC compute and management nodes have pre-configured access to a customer-specific portion of a multi-tenant persistent file storage system. The storage system is on an isolated network accessible only to management and compute nodes. All data on the storage system is encrypted at rest using industry standard algorithms and parameters.”

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Customer-managed keysSuperintelligence/Supercluster page states each cluster uses AES-256 encryption at rest with unique keys under your control. Stated for single-tenant Superclusters, not for public-cloud on-demand instances.
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Role-based access controlTwo account-level roles, Admin and Member; both have full access to resources, while only admins invite users, change billing and manage workspaces.
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  • Access and security overview - Lambda Docs ↗

    “When you invite new members to your Lambda Cloud account, you assign them one of two roles: Admin or Member . Both roles have full access to your Lambda resources. [...] Admins can also: Invite new users to the account or remove users from the account Modify billing information Update account details, such as the account name Manage workspaces and their memberships”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official docs · Report a correction

Private networking / VPC1-Click Cluster compute nodes sit on a dedicated network segment with no inbound firewall connectivity, on a logically isolated Ethernet fabric.
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  • Security posture - Lambda Docs ↗

    “Compute nodes live on a dedicated network segment with no inbound connectivity from the firewall. [...] 1CC compute and management nodes share a logically isolated Ethernet switching fabric.”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official docs · Report a correction

Dedicated infrastructure1-Click Cluster compute nodes run on single-tenant hardware with GPUs, storage, memory and NICs unshared; management head nodes are multi-tenant.
Sources (1) →
  • Security posture - Lambda Docs ↗

    “1CC compute nodes run on single-tenant hardware with tenant isolation enforced using logical network segmentation. Underlying hardware resources, including GPUs, local storage, memory, and network interfaces, aren't shared with or accessible by any other customers. [...] 1CC management nodes run on multi-tenant hardware with tenant isolation enforced using hardware virtualization.”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official docs · Report a correction

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Lambda pricing questions

How much does Lambda cost?

Pay-as-you-go per GPU-hour rather than a monthly plan: the cheapest self-serve instance is a 1x Quadro RTX 6000 at $0.69 per GPU-hour plus sales tax.

GPU cloud pricing: rent NVIDIA H100, H200, and B200 | Lambda · read

How does Lambda charge?

On-Demand instances are priced by hourly usage and billed in one-minute increments; 1-Click Clusters per GPU per hour billed weekly; filesystems per GiB used per month.

Billing overview - Lambda Docs · read

How much does Lambda charge for egress?

Free. Lambda states transparent pricing with no egress fees.

GPU Cloud — Lambda · read

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