Lambda alternatives
Every GPU compute provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Lambda's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Lambda's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- RunPodvs LambdaEntry paid plan: A new account can start with as little as $10 in prepaid credits; deploying a Pod require…
- PaperspaceEntry paid plan: Gradient Pro at $8.00/month on a personal workspace ($12.00/month on a team), billed $0.0…
- Nebius AI CloudEntry paid plan: No plan tiers: usage is paid as you go in USD, and the first payment has a $25 minimum.
- Novita AIEntry paid plan: No plan fee — credit is prepaid, and a manual top-up must be greater than $10.
- DeepInfraEntry paid plan: No minimum spend and no seat fees - billing is pay-per-token usage only, with no charge f…
- CoreWeavevs LambdaPricing model: Four CKS capacity plans - Flex Reservations, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances and On-De…
- Hyperstackvs LambdaEntry paid plan: Prepaid credit rather than a plan: deploying a VM needs a balance covering at least one h…
- Crusoe CloudEntry paid plan: No plan tiers or setup fees: pay-as-you-go by the hour. The cheapest GPU is the L40S 48GB…
- TensorDockEntry paid plan: No plan tiers: deposit funds from as little as $5, drawn down as servers run.
- BasetenEntry paid plan: $0 per month on the Basic plan — pay as you go, with dedicated deployments, model APIs an…
- Vast.aiEntry paid plan: $5 minimum deposit to add account credit before renting a GPU — there are no plan tiers,…
- Fireworks AIPricing model: Three products on one bill. Serverless inference is per token, per model. Fine-tuning is…
Where Lambda stands against these 12
Lambda's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Egress over allowance
- FreeJoint cheapest of the 7 that document it. Level with: CoreWeave — Free.
- Regions
- 14 On-Demand Cloud regions: nine in the USA plus Tokyo, Osaka, India, Germany and Israel2nd highest of the 6 that document it. Highest: RunPod — 31 regions across the US, Europe, Asia and Australia for on-demand GPU instances.
- 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 node6th cheapest of the 12 that document it. Cheapest: DeepInfra — $2.20 per GPU-hour for a dedicated H100 80GB — below every dedicated cloud in this dataset.
- Cheapest GPU, per hour
- $0.69 per GPU-hour for a Quadro RTX 6000 with 24GB; the V100 is $0.79 and the A6000 $1.095th cheapest of the 8 that document it. Cheapest: Vast.ai — $0.03 per hour, the floor from the cheapest host, shared by 4 cards: GTX TITAN X 12GB (median $0.04), RTX…
- Largest GPU offered
- 180GB per GPU on B200 SXM6, from $6.69 per GPU-hour on an 8-GPU node to $6.99 on a single GPUJoint 8th highest of the 12 that document it. Highest: Crusoe Cloud — 288GB per GPU on NVIDIA HGX B300, at $9.90 per GPU-hour on demand; AMD MI355X also has 288GB but is Contact…
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.