Lium
Decentralized GPU marketplace built on Bittensor: independent providers list their machines and compete on price. H100, H200, B200 and consumer cards, billed per second, with SSH access in under a minute.
Trust Score v0.1- Company & track record47
- Infrastructure control60
- Pricing & billing transparency65
- Reliability signals25
- Security & compliance0
- Customer signal—
Scored Sep 29, 2026 from the provider's own pages. Dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominator. Criteria ↓
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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.
| Founding year published | not disclosedlium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| Headquarters published | Datura AI Corplium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
| Legal entity named | Datura AI Corplium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Funding or ownership disclosed | Not published. Runs as Bittensor subnet netuid 51 (public shared config); providers receive 95 % of rental fees plus subnet emissions (idle pay).lium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| Capacity model published | third-party hostslium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 10 |
| Regions published | 40 regions or countrieslium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Public prices without an account | yes (read on the pricing page)lium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Billing granularity published | per secondlium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Egress policy published | Pod internet traffic: not published. Volume reads: metered at the AWS S3 data-transfer cost billed to Lium, no free tier.lium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| Stopped-instance billing published | No user pause that stops compute billing is documented: a pod bills from the deploy request (provisioning included) until it is removed, reboots stay billed, billing pauses only while the provider node is inactive. Data outside an attached volume is deleted with the pod. Volumes and backups keep billing 0.00005 USD/GB-hour on stored data until deleted.lium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Public IPv4 policy published | not published (pods are reached by SSH on the node's IP and a forwarded port; listings show open ports per node)lium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
| Status page | not disclosedlium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 6 |
| SLA published | not disclosedlium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 6 |
| SLA with a numeric uptime commitment | not disclosedlium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
| Uptime history published | Per-node uptime and reliability score on each listing; no platform uptime figure. Terms give no warranty of uptime.lium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Observed availability (30 days) | not measured yet | — |
| SOC 2 | not disclosedlium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 8 |
| ISO 27001 | not disclosedlium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| HIPAA or GDPR DPA | not disclosedlium.io · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
| Aggregated public reviews | not collected yet | — |
What the market report notes about Lium
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
- Lium
- Cross-checkfr
- H200 2,75–2,95 $ ; B200 5,50 $ (sept. 2026) ; RTX PRO 6000 au catalogue.
What Lium 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 | $1.79 | $3.17 | −43% | 10 | on-demand | H100 prices |
| RTX PRO 6000 | $1.59 | $2.14 | −26% | 6 | on-demandspot | RTX PRO 6000 prices |
| H200 | $2.99 | $4.76 | −37% | 18 | on-demandspot | H200 prices |
| L40S | $0.38 | $1.26 | −70% | 8 | spoton-demand | L40S prices |
| B200 | $5.90 | $7.50 | −21% | 6 | on-demand | B200 prices |
| B300 | $8.90 | $8.96 | −1% | 13 | on-demandspot | B300 prices |
| RTX A6000 | $0.42 | $0.54 | −22% | 18 | on-demand | RTX A6000 prices |
| RTX 5090 | $0.50 | $0.69 | −28% | 44 | spoton-demand | RTX 5090 prices |
| RTX 4090 | $0.35 | $0.44 | −20% | 21 | spoton-demand | RTX 4090 prices |
| RTX 6000 Ada | $0.80 | $0.79 | +2% | 14 | on-demandspot | RTX 6000 Ada prices |
| Tesla V100 32GB | $0.55 | $2.48 | −78% | 8 | on-demand | Tesla V100 32GB prices |
| Tesla V100 16GB | $0.21 | $1.71 | −88% | 2 | on-demand | Tesla V100 16GB prices |
| RTX 3090 | $0.22 | $0.19 | +16% | 10 | spoton-demand | RTX 3090 prices |
| H200 NVL | $4.25 | $3.99 | +7% | 1 | on-demand | H200 NVL prices |
| RTX A4000 | $0.12 | $0.19 | −35% | 1 | on-demand | RTX A4000 prices |
| RTX 5060 Ti | $0.22 | $0.14 | +62% | 1 | on-demand | RTX 5060 Ti prices |
| RTX 5070 Ti | $0.25 | $0.25 | +1% | 4 | spoton-demand | RTX 5070 Ti prices |
| RTX PRO 5000 | $0.80 | $0.93 | −14% | 2 | on-demand | RTX PRO 5000 prices |
| RTX 5080 | no on-demand | $0.27 | — | 1 | spot | RTX 5080 prices |
| CMP 170HX | no on-demand | $0.48 | — | 1 | spot | CMP 170HX prices |
Every Lium 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 A4000marketplace floor | 8× RTX A400040 vCPU · 47 GB RAM · 937.8 GB disk | On-demand | US | In stock | $0.12 | $0.12 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3090marketplace floor | 3× RTX 309016 vCPU · 78.5 GB RAM · 549.7 GB disk | Spot | Australia | In stock | $0.19 | $0.19 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3090 | 1× RTX 309016 vCPU · 14.2 GB RAM · 914.8 GB disk | Spot | Australia | In stock | $0.20 | $0.20 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla V100 16GBmarketplace flooroutlier · suspended | 5× Tesla V100 16GB20 vCPU · 62.7 GB RAM · 249.9 GB disk | On-demand | Japan | In stock | $0.21 | $0.21 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3090marketplace floor | 4× RTX 309032 vCPU · 251.6 GB RAM · 931.1 GB disk | On-demand | Finland | In stock | $0.22 | $0.22 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5060 Timarketplace floor | 1× RTX 5060 Ti4 vCPU · 15.6 GB RAM · 238.4 GB disk | On-demand | India | In stock | $0.22 | $0.22 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3090 | 4× RTX 309064 vCPU · 94.3 GB RAM · 1,683.9 GB disk | On-demand | BY | In stock | $0.23 | $0.23 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3090 | 1× RTX 309028 vCPU · 31.2 GB RAM · 467.9 GB disk | Spot | UA | In stock | $0.25 | $0.25 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5070 Timarketplace floor | 1× RTX 5070 Ti28 vCPU · 62.6 GB RAM · 467.9 GB disk | On-demand | UA | In stock | $0.25 | $0.25 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5070 Ti | 1× RTX 5070 Ti28 vCPU · 62.6 GB RAM · 467.9 GB disk | On-demand | UA | In stock | $0.25 | $0.25 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3090 | 1× RTX 309032 vCPU · 31.2 GB RAM · 14,900 GB disk | On-demand | Germany | In stock | $0.28 | $0.28 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3090 | 8× RTX 309072 vCPU · 133.6 GB RAM · 13,037 GB disk | On-demand | Germany | In stock | $0.29 | $0.29 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5070 Timarketplace floor | 1× RTX 5070 Ti28 vCPU · 62.6 GB RAM · 467.9 GB disk | Spot | UA | In stock | $0.30 | $0.30 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 5070 Ti | 1× RTX 5070 Ti16 vCPU · 62.7 GB RAM · 457.1 GB disk | Spot | UA | In stock | $0.30 | $0.30 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3090 | 1× RTX 309028 vCPU · 62.5 GB RAM · 915.7 GB disk | On-demand | Romania | In stock | $0.30 | $0.30 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| CMP 170HXmarketplace floor | 2× CMP 170HX16 vCPU · 91.9 GB RAM · 953.4 GB disk | Spot | UK | In stock | $0.30 | $0.30 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4090marketplace floor | 2× RTX 409032 vCPU · 93.5 GB RAM · 3,724.2 GB disk | On-demand | GR | In stock | $0.35 | $0.35 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4090marketplace floor | 1× RTX 409024 vCPU · 62.7 GB RAM · 456.9 GB disk | Spot | UA | In stock | $0.37 | $0.37 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40Smarketplace floor | 2× L40S24 vCPU · 141.4 GB RAM · 1,229.2 GB disk | On-demand | US | In stock | $0.38 | $0.38 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 2× L40S24 vCPU · 141.4 GB RAM · 1,229.2 GB disk | On-demand | US | In stock | $0.38 | $0.38 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 2× L40S24 vCPU · 141.6 GB RAM · 1,229.2 GB disk | On-demand | US | In stock | $0.38 | $0.38 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 2× L40S24 vCPU · 141.6 GB RAM · 1,229.2 GB disk | On-demand | US | In stock | $0.38 | $0.38 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 4× L40S46 vCPU · 283.4 GB RAM · 2,459.5 GB disk | On-demand | US | In stock | $0.38 | $0.38 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 2× L40S24 vCPU · 141.4 GB RAM · 1,229.2 GB disk | On-demand | US | In stock | $0.38 | $0.38 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 4090 | 1× RTX 409024 vCPU · 62.7 GB RAM · 456.9 GB disk | Spot | UA | In stock | $0.40 | $0.40 | 21:10 UTCfresh | Receipt |
What 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 second
- Minimum charge
- None; no minimum rental period and no rounding. Deploying requires a balance covering at least 15 minutes of the pod's hourly price.
- Stopped instance
- No user pause that stops compute billing is documented: a pod bills from the deploy request (provisioning included) until it is removed, reboots stay billed, billing pauses only while the provider node is inactive. Data outside an attached volume is deleted with the pod. Volumes and backups keep billing 0.00005 USD/GB-hour on stored data until deleted.
- Egress
- Pod internet traffic: not published. Volume reads: metered at the AWS S3 data-transfer cost billed to Lium, no free tier.
- Public IPv4
- not published (pods are reached by SSH on the node's IP and a forwarded port; listings show open ports per node)
- Billing model
- prepaid credits
- Minimum deposit
- 10 USD for card and stablecoin top-ups (Top Up form shows 10 USD for TAO and alpha too); Auto Top Up amount at least 20 USD
- Free credits
- 5 USD signup credit when the platform has it enabled and no other account signed up from the same IP
Account
- Payment
- card · crypto (yes: stablecoins by invoice to a deposit address (USDT on Tron given as example; pairs listed by GET /tmc-pay/currencies), TAO and Bittensor alpha)
- Sign-up
- email, password
- Identity check
- none
- Support
- email, discord
- Enterprise support
- not published
- SLA
- not published
- Status page
- not published
- Published uptime
- Per-node uptime and reliability score on each listing; no platform uptime figure. Terms give no warranty of uptime.
Infrastructure
- Regions
40 named regions in 16 countries
Sydney (New South Wales) (Australia) · Minsk (Minsk City) (Belarus) · Helsinki (Uusimaa) (Finland) · Le Perreux-sur-Marne (Île-de-France) (France) · Paris (Île-de-France) (France) · Saint-Coulomb (Brittany) (France) · Frankfurt am Main (Hesse) (Germany) · Dublin (Leinster) (Ireland) · Chiyoda City (Tokyo) (Japan) · Almaty (Kazakhstan) · Vilnius (Lithuania) · Cotovia (Setúbal) (Portugal) · Drobeta-Turnu Severin (Mehedinți County) (Romania) · Ploieşti (Prahova) (Romania) · Nizhniy Novgorod (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast) (Russia) · Novosibirsk (Novosibirsk Oblast) (Russia) · Lorca (Murcia) (Spain) · Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) (Ukraine) · Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast) (Ukraine) · Dubai (United Arab Emirates) · Ashburn (Virginia) (United States) · Beltsville (Maryland) (United States) · Charlotte (North Carolina) (United States) · Chicago (Illinois) (United States) · Columbus (Ohio) (United States) · Dallas (Texas) (United States) · Denver (Colorado) (United States) · Des Moines (Iowa) (United States) · Gardner (Kansas) (United States) · Jackson (Mississippi) (United States) · Las Vegas (Nevada) (United States) · Lincoln (Nebraska) (United States) · Los Angeles (California) (United States) · Myrtle Beach (South Carolina) (United States) · Newburyport (Massachusetts) (United States) · North Bergen (New Jersey) (United States) · Oakton (Virginia) (United States) · Overland Park (Kansas) (United States) · Pflugerville (Texas) (United States) · Richmond (Virginia) (United States) …- Countries
- Australia, Belarus, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States
- Platform
- api, cli, jupyter, ssh, custom_docker_image, persistent_volumes, snapshots, spot_or_interruptible · SDK : python (lium.io on PyPI), MCP endpoint for docs · Terraform : no · Kubernetes : no · interconnexion : NVLink on some nodes (per-node Link verdict in listings) · multi-node clusters over InfiniBand or RoCE · clusters : Multi-node clusters of whole homogeneous machines on one RDMA fabric (InfiniBand or measured RoCE), private WireGuard overlay, each node billed as its own pod
- Storage
- network · 0.00005 USD/GB-hour (about 0.036 USD/GB-month) · Volumes on S3-compatible object storage mounted at /mnt, billed on data actually stored, charged daily. Reads out of a volume are billed as egress at the AWS cost per GB (docs cite AWS list 0.09 USD/GB), no free tier.object · 0.00005 USD/GB-hour (about 0.036 USD/GB-month) · Scheduled pod backups (1h, 6h or 24h) stored in AWS S3 with a retention window.ephemeral · included in pod price · The node's local disk is part of the hourly pod price; encrypted at rest by default where supported.
- Migration out
- Workloads run as Docker containers from public or custom templates, so images move as-is. Data on local disks is deleted with the pod; data in volumes lives in S3-compatible buckets and must be copied out (rsync/scp from a pod, with volume reads billed as egress). There is no documented bulk export of volumes or backups beyond restoring them into a pod.
Security & compliance
- SOC 2
- not published
- ISO 27001
- not published
- HIPAA
- not published
- GDPR / DPA
- not published
- Other
- Export control and sanctions policy (US embargoes, US/UK/EU lists, Stripe screening, review of registration network origin); Intel TDX confidential-computing nodes with attestation quotes; local volume encryption on by default
- Legal entity
- Datura AI Corp
- Funding
- Not published. Runs as Bittensor subnet netuid 51 (public shared config); providers receive 95 % of rental fees plus subnet emissions (idle pay).
Lium, in short
What stood out when we read the documents: strengths, weaknesses, who it suits, and what we could not find.
Strengths
- 91 GPU models priced publicly per GPU-hour, with the table also served as JSON (lium.io/pricing.json) and a live node feed, no account needed
- H100 SXM from 1.30 USD/GPU-h, L40S 0.38 and RTX 5090 from 0.50 on 2026-09-29 (lowest live asks)
- Per-second billing with no minimum; 15-minute balance needed to deploy
- Card payments via Stripe (with Auto Top Up) in addition to stablecoins, TAO and alpha
- Headless signup without email (32-character fingerprint credential) and a CLI, Python SDK, OpenAPI 3.1 REST API and agent skill built for AI agents
- Multi-node clusters over InfiniBand or RoCE; Intel TDX confidential-computing nodes
- Volume and backup storage at 0.00005 USD/GB-hour (about 0.036 USD/GB-month)
- Provider price increases reach a running pod only after 7 days notice
Weaknesses
- Hardware belongs to independent providers; terms give no uptime warranty and no SLA
- Prices are provider asks that move; 74 of 91 listed models had no free pod on 2026-09-29 and show only a reference price
- Own docs warn of silent downgrades to 1 GPU and pods billed for more GPUs than the container exposes on 4- and 8-GPU rentals
- Top-ups are non-refundable and unused balance is not refunded on closure; when the balance hits zero pods are removed and local data deleted
- Volume reads billed as egress at AWS cost with no free tier; volumes are object storage, slower than local disk for random I/O
- No SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA statement published; operator incorporated in Saint Kitts and Nevis
Ideal for
- Cost-sensitive training and inference jobs that tolerate provider variability
- AI agents and scripts that must sign up, fund, rent and tear down GPUs without a human
- Short experiments that benefit from per-second billing on a wide range of consumer and data-center cards
Not published
- Founding date, headcount and funding: not published on lium.io or docs.lium.io
- Pod internet egress pricing or caps: not published
- Dedicated public IPv4 per pod: not published
- PayPal and bank wire: not mentioned in the terms or billing docs
- Full list of accepted stablecoins and networks: only returned by an authenticated API call (GET /tmc-pay/currencies)
- Number of public templates: not published
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR DPA: no statement found
- Regions are the locations of rentable nodes in the public feed on 2026-09-29 (118 nodes)
- the provider fleet changes continuously
- Median price per model is not published
- rows record the lowest live ask (the low end of the published range) or the reference price
Observations
Home page is the live marketplace: 123 of 522 pods available, each card with price per hour, per-GPU price, CPU, RAM, disk, network, uptime, reliability, city and provider hotkey
Filters include GPU type, count, price range (0.11 to 207.20 USD/hr), tier (Secure or Spot), location, CUDA version, confidential computing and cluster fabric
Pricing page lists every model per GPU-hour grouped as Data center, Professional and Consumer, with live ranges and availability, without an account
Footer links an llms-full.txt reference for AI agents
Pages read
- lium.io/ — Listings, filters, tier options, site observations
- lium.io/pricing — Per-model GPU-hour prices and ranges, billing FAQ, 95 % provider share
- lium.io/pricing.json — 91 models, reference and min/max prices, VRAM, availability
- lium.io/gpu/h100 — H100 SXM vs PCIe labelling, from prices
- lium.io/api/public/v1/nodes — Node locations, tiers (secure/spot), GPU counts
- lium.io/api/v1/shared-config — Bittensor netuid 51, volume GB-hour price, rental fee rate
- lium.io/llms.txt — Product scope, fleet totals, API endpoints
- lium.io/llms-full.txt — Signup paths, funding options, crypto invoices, CLI, clusters, GPU verification caveats
- lium.io/terms — Legal entity, jurisdiction, payment methods, refunds, no uptime warranty
- docs.lium.io/pod-users/billing.md — Per-second billing, balance rules, minimum top-ups, Auto Top Up
- docs.lium.io/pod-users/volumes.md — Volume storage price, egress on reads
- docs.lium.io/pod-users/backups.md — Backup storage and schedules
- docs.lium.io/pod-users/clusters.md — InfiniBand/RoCE clusters
- docs.lium.io/pod-users/security.md — Confidential computing (Intel TDX), encryption
- docs.lium.io/pod-users/discord-support.md — Support channels
- docs.lium.io/security/export-compliance.md — Compliance, access review
- docs.lium.io/providers/portal/node-tier.md — Spot tier definition
- docs.lium.io/pod-users/invoices.md — Stripe invoices for card top-ups with company and VAT details
- docs.lium.io/pod-users/broken-pods.md — Credit for provider-closed pods
- docs.lium.io/developers/api.md — OpenAPI 3.1 schema
- docs.lium.io/intro.md — Support contacts, positioning
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Questions about Lium
What GPUs does Lium offer?
Lium has 84 GPU types with a fresh offer today, for example H100 from $1.79, RTX PRO 6000 from $1.59, H200 from $2.99, L40S from $0.38, B200 from $5.90, B300 from $8.90 per GPU-hour on-demand. The full list with prices and market medians is on this page.
How does Lium bill?
Billing granularity: per second. Minimum charge: None; no minimum rental period and no rounding. Deploying requires a balance covering at least 15 minutes of the pod's hourly price. Stopped instance: No user pause that stops compute billing is documented: a pod bills from the deploy request (provisioning included) until it is removed, reboots stay billed, billing pauses only while the provider node is inactive. Data outside an attached volume is deleted with the pod. Volumes and backups keep billing 0.00005 USD/GB-hour on stored data until deleted.
How trustworthy is Lium?
Its Trust Score is 40/100 (v0.1), read from its own documents. Weaker on company & track record, infrastructure control, pricing & billing transparency, reliability signals, security & compliance. The score measures transparency and published guarantees, not customer satisfaction; every criterion and its source is listed above.
Where are Lium's data centres?
40 named regions in 16 countries: Australia, Belarus, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States.
How do you pay Lium, and are there credits?
Payment by card, crypto. Free credits: 5 USD signup credit when the platform has it enabled and no other account signed up from the same IP. Identity check: none.
