About Lambda

Lambda is a cloud provider focused on GPU compute for artificial intelligence. Customers can launch on-demand GPU instances for experiments, or reserve larger clusters when training and serving models at scale.

The product line includes single instances, 1-Click Clusters, superclusters and supercomputers, which the company calls AI factories. The homepage lists NVIDIA GPUs such as the B200, H200 and H100 and newer rack-scale systems, and it supports them with the Lambda Stack software distribution and orchestration tooling. Offerings are grouped by customer type: superintelligence labs, enterprises, government, and startups and researchers.

Lambda is a proprietary commercial service with a published pricing page and a create-account flow. It also publishes GPU benchmarks, an LLM index and research, and it offers documentation, customer stories and a trust and security section.

Key features

On-demand GPU instances
1-Click Clusters for multi-node training
Reserved superclusters
Current NVIDIA GPU generations
Lambda Stack software environment
Orchestration tooling

Good fit for

→Training large models on reserved clusters
→Quick GPU instances for experiments
→Research compute for universities and startups

Tags: gpu-cloud; ai-training; ai-inference; nvidia; clusters; ai-infrastructure; cloud; gpu-instances

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Pricing

Paid

Paid plans only.

No free plan

No free trial

Instance: NVIDIA B200 SXM6Per GPU-hour, 8-GPU instance; smaller instances cost slightly more per GPU$6.69usage-based
Instance: NVIDIA H100 SXMPer GPU-hour, 8-GPU instance, 80 GB$3.99usage-based
Instance: NVIDIA A100 SXM 80 GBPer GPU-hour, 8-GPU instance$2.79usage-based
Instance: NVIDIA A100 SXM 40 GBPer GPU-hour, 8-GPU instance$1.99usage-based
Instance: NVIDIA Tesla V100Per GPU-hour, 16 GB$0.79usage-based
1-Click Cluster: HGX B200Per GPU-hour, 16 GPUs, 2 weeks to 1 year; talk to our team$9.86usage-based
1-Click Cluster: H100Per GPU-hour, 16 GPUs, 2 weeks to 1 year; talk to our team$6.16usage-based

Billed per GPU-hour. Self-serve instances run from $0.79 for a Tesla V100 to $6.69 for a B200, with H100 SXM at $3.99. 1-Click Clusters and longer reserved capacity are arranged with the sales team.

See pricing Pricing checked 3 Oct 2026

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