Operator · San Francisco, CA · founded 2012
Lambda
Lambda provides cloud GPU instances for AI training, inference, and other compute-intensive workloads with competitive pricing.
GPU types9with a current offer
Current offers9797 readings on file · last 45 days
H100 from$3.29per GPU-hour, on-demand
Entry price$0.69cheapest GPU-hour listed
Countries516 named regions
Trust Score v0.180/100
- Company & track record100
- Infrastructure control100
- Pricing & billing transparency100
- Reliability signals30
- Security & compliance80
- Customer signal—
Scored Sep 29, 2026 from the provider's own pages. Dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominator. Criteria ↓
Trust Score · 5 of 6 dimensions measuredThe score, criterion by criterion
Each point comes from something the provider publishes, with the page it was read on and the date. Anything not disclosed earns zero.
Company & track record
weight 15%
100 / 100
| Founding year published | 2012lambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Headquarters published | Lambda, Inc.lambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
| Legal entity named | Lambda, Inc.lambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Funding or ownership disclosed | Private. States it has raised over 1.5B USD in equity (Nov 2025 round from TWG Global, USIT); 1B USD senior secured credit facility (May 2026); 926M USD senior secured term loan B (Aug 2026).lambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
Infrastructure control
weight 15%
100 / 100
| Capacity model published | operates or rents dedicated capacitylambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 10 / 10 |
| Regions published | 16 regions or countrieslambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
Pricing & billing transparency
weight 20%
100 / 100
| Public prices without an account | yes (read on the pricing page)lambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Billing granularity published | per minutelambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Egress policy published | included (no egress fees; filesystems not charged for ingress or egress)lambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Stopped-instance billing published | Instances cannot be stopped or suspended, only launched, restarted or terminated; billing runs until termination (an OS shutdown puts the instance in Alert status and billing continues). Filesystems are billed as long as they exist.lambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Public IPv4 policy published | Public IP shown for each instance in the console; no separate charge publishedlambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
Reliability signals
weight 20%
30 / 100
| Status page | https://status.lambda.ai/lambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 6 / 6 |
| SLA published | not disclosedlambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 6 |
| SLA with a numeric uptime commitment | not disclosedlambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
| Uptime history published | not disclosedlambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 5 |
| Observed availability (30 days) | not measured yet | — |
Security & compliance
weight 15%
80 / 100
| SOC 2 | Type IIlambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 8 / 8 |
| ISO 27001 | yes (ISO 27001, 27017, 27701 and 22301 stated on the 1-Click Clusters page)lambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| HIPAA or GDPR DPA | not disclosedlambda.ai · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
Customer signal
weight 15%
not measured
| Aggregated public reviews | not collected yet | — |
provisional v0.1: evidence from the provider's own pages; dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominatorFull method →
Market report · Oct 25, 2026 · Specialised GPU clouds, hourly rental, pods and inference · #38 of the 200 to audit · prices read on the provider's pageWhat the market report notes about Lambda
Our internal report lists 248 actors with their zone, segment, status and the prices it could read, dated Oct 25, 2026. Its notes are reproduced as written, in French, with their sources.
- Listed as
- Lambda
- Cross-checkfr
- H100 SXM (8 GPU) 3,99 $ ; 1-Click Clusters dès 5,54 $/GPU-h.
Prices by GPU · 8 GPU types with a current offerWhat Lambda charges, against the market
Cheapest current on-demand true cost here, next to the market median for the same GPU. Negative means cheaper than the market.
| GPU | Cheapest here | Market median | vs market | Current offers | Modes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H100 | $3.29 | $3.17 | +4% | 8 | reservedon-demand | H100 prices |
| A100 80GB | $1.99 | $1.99 | −0% | 6 | on-demand | A100 80GB prices |
| B200 | $6.69 | $7.50 | −11% | 7 | reservedon-demand | B200 prices |
| RTX A6000 | $1.09 | $0.54 | +102% | 3 | on-demand | RTX A6000 prices |
| Tesla V100 16GB | $0.79 | $1.71 | −54% | 1 | on-demand | Tesla V100 16GB prices |
| A10 | $1.29 | $1.35 | −5% | 1 | on-demand | A10 prices |
| GH200 | $2.29 | $3.87 | −41% | 1 | on-demand | GH200 prices |
| RTX 6000 | $0.69 | — | — | 1 | on-demand | RTX 6000 prices |
All offers · 97 readings on fileEvery Lambda offer, with its receipt
Current offers (last 45 days) ranked by true cost, all rental modes, each with its read date. Older readings stay listed below, in grey.
| GPU | Configuration | Mode | Region | Stock | List | True cost | Read | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 6000outlier · suspended | 1× RTX 6000 | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $0.69 | $0.69 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla V100 16GB | 8× Tesla V100 16GB | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $0.79 | $0.79 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX A6000 | 4× RTX A6000 | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $1.09 | $1.09 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX A6000 | 2× RTX A6000 | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $1.09 | $1.09 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX A6000 | 1× RTX A6000 | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $1.09 | $1.09 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A10 | 1× A10 | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $1.29 | $1.29 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A100 80GB | 8× A100 80GB | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $1.99 | $1.99 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A100 80GB | 4× A100 80GB | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $1.99 | $1.99 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A100 80GB | 2× A100 80GB | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $1.99 | $1.99 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A100 80GB | 1× A100 80GB | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $1.99 | $1.99 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A100 80GB | 1× A100 80GB | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $1.99 | $1.99 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| GH200 | 1× GH200 | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $2.29 | $2.29 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A100 80GB | 8× A100 80GB | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $2.79 | $2.79 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100PCIE | 1× H100 PCIE | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $3.29 | $3.29 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100SXM | 8× H100 SXM | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $3.99 | $3.99 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100SXM | 4× H100 SXM | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $4.09 | $4.09 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100SXM | 2× H100 SXM | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $4.19 | $4.19 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100SXM | 1× H100 SXM | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $4.29 | $4.29 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100SXM1-month commitment | 256× H100 SXM | Reserved | US | Stock unknown | $5.54 | $5.54 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100SXM1-month commitment | 64× H100 SXM | Reserved | US | Stock unknown | $5.85 | $5.85 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100SXM1-month commitment | 16× H100 SXM | Reserved | US | Stock unknown | $6.16 | $6.16 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| B200SXM | 8× B200 SXM | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $6.69 | $6.69 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| B200SXM | 4× B200 SXM | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $6.79 | $6.79 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| B200SXM | 2× B200 SXM | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $6.89 | $6.89 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| B200SXM | 1× B200 SXM | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $6.99 | $6.99 | 21:09 UTCfresh | Receipt |
28 fresh offers · the 25 cheapest shown here, all of them in the comparison tool · prices per GPU-hour · true cost includes the add-ons the provider publishesOpen in the comparison tool →
True cost & billing · read Sep 29, 2026What the hourly price does not say
Billing granularity, minimums, what a stopped machine costs, traffic, addresses, deposits and identity checks, as published by the provider.
Billing
- Billing granularity
- per minute
- Minimum charge
- not published
- Stopped instance
- Instances cannot be stopped or suspended, only launched, restarted or terminated; billing runs until termination (an OS shutdown puts the instance in Alert status and billing continues). Filesystems are billed as long as they exist.
- Egress
- included (no egress fees; filesystems not charged for ingress or egress)
- Public IPv4
- Public IP shown for each instance in the console; no separate charge published
- Billing model
- postpaid invoice
- Minimum deposit
- None; a 10 USD card pre-authorization is made and refunded
- Free credits
- not published
Account
- Payment
- card · crypto (not published)
- Sign-up
- card
- Identity check
- card verification
- Support
- ticket, community forum, docs
- Enterprise support
- not published
- SLA
- No public uptime SLA found. 1-Click Cluster support initial response times: Severity 1 4 h, Severity 2 8 h, Severity 3 10 h, service request 24 h.
- Status page
- status.lambda.ai ↗
- Published uptime
- not published
Infrastructure
- Regions
16 named regions in 5 countries
asia-northeast-1 (Japan) · asia-northeast-2 (Japan) · asia-south-1 (India) · europe-central-1 (Germany) · me-west-1 (Israel) · us-east-1 (United States) · us-east-2 (United States) · us-east-3 (United States) · us-midwest-1 (United States) · us-midwest-2 (United States) · us-south-1 (United States) · us-south-2 (United States) · us-south-3 (United States) · us-west-1 (United States) · us-west-2 (United States) · us-west-3 (United States)- Countries
- United States, Japan, India, Germany, Israel
- Platform
- api, jupyter, ssh, custom_docker_image, persistent_volumes · SDK : — · Terraform : — · Kubernetes : managed · interconnexion : SXM on 8x instances · 1-Click Clusters on NVIDIA Quantum-2 400 Gb/s InfiniBand, rail-optimized, GPUDirect RDMA up to 3200 Gb/s · clusters : 1-Click Clusters of 16 to 2,000+ B200 or H100 GPUs (docs: 16 to 512) reserved by the week, with managed Kubernetes or Slurm · Superclusters of 4,000 to 165,000+ GPUs, single-tenant
- Storage
- network · None · Filesystems billed per GiB used per month in one-hour increments; docs use 0.20 USD/GiB-month only as an example that 'might not reflect current pricing'; actual price shown at creation. No ingress/egress charge. Cannot be transferred between regions.ephemeral · included · Root volume included with each instance type (512 GiB to 22 TiB); 1CC compute nodes include 24 TB local NVMe, deleted at reservation end.
- Migration out
- Data leaves via rsync or the Filesystem S3 Adapter (S3-compatible, us-east-2, us-east-3 and us-midwest-2 only) with rclone or s5cmd; no egress fees. Docs advise containerising environments with Docker because instances cannot be suspended.
Security & compliance
- SOC 2
- Type II
- ISO 27001
- yes (ISO 27001, 27017, 27701 and 22301 stated on the 1-Click Clusters page)
- HIPAA
- not published
- GDPR / DPA
- not published
- Other
- Trust portal referenced (trust.lambda.ai, behind a bot challenge); audit event logs retained six months via API.
- Legal entity
- Lambda, Inc.
- Funding
- Private. States it has raised over 1.5B USD in equity (Nov 2025 round from TWG Global, USIT); 1B USD senior secured credit facility (May 2026); 926M USD senior secured term loan B (Aug 2026).
GPUBank market study, read on the provider's own pages · 23 pages read · facts marked "not published" were looked for and not foundPages read ↓
From the study · assessmentLambda, in short
What stood out when we read the documents: strengths, weaknesses, who it suits, and what we could not find.
Strengths
- Self-serve B200 SXM6 instances from 1 to 8 GPUs at 6.69 to 6.99 USD per GPU-hour, plus GH200 at 2.29 USD
- Reservable InfiniBand clusters (16 to 2,000+ GPUs) from the console, with managed Kubernetes or Slurm
- No egress fees on instances and filesystems
- SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001/27017/27701/22301 stated; audit event log API
- 16 regions across the United States, Japan, India, Germany and Israel
- Published financing: over 1.5B USD equity, 1B USD credit facility, 926M USD term loan
Weaknesses
- H100 SXM on demand at 3.99 to 4.29 USD per GPU-hour
- No spot or interruptible tier and no stop state: instances are billed until terminated
- Major credit cards only; prepaid and debit cards declined, VPN purchases flagged; purchases accepted from a listed set of countries only
- Filesystem price not on the public pricing page; filesystems cannot move between regions or attach to running instances
- No RTX 4090/5090, no L40S, no AMD GPUs; no official CLI, SDK or Terraform provider found in the docs
- New accounts have an instance quota that rises as invoices are paid
Ideal for
- Teams with an accepted credit card needing B200 or H100 nodes on demand
- Labs reserving multi-week InfiniBand clusters without a long contract
- Enterprises needing SOC 2 / ISO documentation and single-tenant clusters
Not published
- Current filesystem price per GiB-month (docs example of 0.20 USD may not reflect current pricing
- real price shown only in the console)
- Price of 1-year-plus 1-Click Cluster reservations and of Superclusters (GB300 NVL72, HGX B300, Vera Rubin NVL72): not published
- Whether 1CC invoices can be paid by wire/ACH
- PayPal and crypto not mentioned anywhere
- Sign-up requirements beyond a credit card (phone, company, ID) not documented
- HIPAA and GDPR DPA status: trust portal (trust.lambda.ai) returned a bot challenge
- Official CLI, SDK and Terraform provider: none found in docs
- registry.terraform.io/providers/lambdal/lambda returned 404
- Free credits or trial: not published
- Per-region GPU availability not published (docs: not every instance type is available in every region)
Observations
Pricing page shows per GPU-hour prices for every instance size without login, in 8x/4x/2x/1x tabs
All prices marked 'plus applicable sales tax/VAT/GST'
1-Click Cluster rows show price per GPU-hour with 'Talk to our team' buttons; 1 year+ rows show a dash
Trust portal behind a Cloudflare challenge for automated readers
Pages read
- lambda.ai/pricing — All on-demand and 1-Click Cluster GPU prices (H100 cluster tab read from page HTML
- lambda.ai/instances — Per-minute billing, no egress fees, 1x to 8x instances
- lambda.ai/1-click-clusters — Cluster scale, ISO/SOC 2 claims, managed orchestration
- lambda.ai/superclusters — GB300 NVL72, HGX B300, Vera Rubin NVL72; 4,000 to 165,000+ GPUs
- docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/billing/ — Per-minute billing, weekly invoices, filesystem billing, credits and refunds
- docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/manage-billing/ — Credit card only, 10 USD pre-authorization, supported purchase countries
- docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/on-demand/ — Instance types, images, JupyterLab, regions, filesystem limits
- docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/on-demand/creating-managing-instances/ — No stop/suspend, new-account quota
- docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/filesystems/ — Filesystem capacity, no cross-region transfer
- docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/s3-adapter-filesystems/ — S3 endpoints; regions us-east-3 and us-midwest-2
- docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/importing-exporting-data/ — Migration paths
- docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/1-click-clusters/ — InfiniBand fabric, head nodes, local NVMe, reservation and 10-day invoice
- docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/1-click-clusters/support/ — Support team and response times
- docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/1-click-clusters/security-posture/ — Single-tenant compute nodes, encryption at rest
- docs.lambda.ai/public-cloud/access-security/ — API keys, roles, audit logs, trust portal
- docs.lambda.ai/managed-kubernetes/ — Managed Kubernetes on 1CC
- docs.lambda.ai/api/cloud — API availability
- status.lambda.ai/ — Status page
- lambda.ai/support — Support channels
- lambda.ai/legal/terms-of-service — Legal entity, address, USD fees, card charging, suspension for late payment
- lambda.ai/about — Founded 2012 in San Francisco
- lambda.ai/investors — Funding and financing
- lambda.ai/leadership — Executive team
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Questions about Lambda
What GPUs does Lambda offer?
Lambda has 9 GPU types with a fresh offer today, for example H100 from $3.29, A100 80GB from $1.99, B200 from $6.69, RTX A6000 from $1.09, Tesla V100 16GB from $0.79, A10 from $1.29 per GPU-hour on-demand. The full list with prices and market medians is on this page.
How does Lambda bill?
Billing granularity: per minute. Stopped instance: Instances cannot be stopped or suspended, only launched, restarted or terminated; billing runs until termination (an OS shutdown puts the instance in Alert status and billing continues). Filesystems are billed as long as they exist.
How trustworthy is Lambda?
Its Trust Score is 80/100 (v0.1), read from its own documents. Strong on company & track record, infrastructure control, pricing & billing transparency. Weaker on reliability signals. The score measures transparency and published guarantees, not customer satisfaction; every criterion and its source is listed above.
Where are Lambda's data centres?
16 named regions in 5 countries: United States, Japan, India, Germany, Israel.
How do you pay Lambda, and are there credits?
Payment by card, crypto. No sign-up credit is published. Identity check: card verification.