Lambda
San Francisco GPU cloud (formerly lambda.ai) selling self-serve on-demand NVIDIA instances, reservable InfiniBand clusters (1-Click Clusters) and large private clusters to AI developers and labs. Building new data centers in Oklahoma and Alabama.
Facts
Source per value- Type What kind of provider it is: hyperscaler, managed HPC service, GPU cloud, sovereign or EU-hosted cloud, publicly funded supercomputer, or simulation-software cloud.
- gpu-cloud 1
- Fabric Primary node-to-node network the provider states for its HPC or GPU clusters. RDMA means the provider names RDMA cluster networking without naming the transport.
- InfiniBand 1
- Interconnect detail Speeds and instance families as the provider states them.
- InfiniBand 1
- Schedulers Job schedulers and orchestrators the provider offers or documents.
- Slurm, Kubernetes 1
- Slurm Offers or documents Slurm (managed, or as a supported deployment).
- Yes 1
- Kubernetes Offers managed Kubernetes for its clusters.
- Yes 1
- CPUs CPU models the provider names for its HPC or GPU hosts.
- Not published
- GPUs / accelerators Accelerators the provider lists, as listed on its own pages.
- B200, H100, GH200, A100 1
- H100 Lists NVIDIA H100.
- Yes 1
- Blackwell Lists at least one NVIDIA Blackwell data-centre GPU (B200, B300, GB200, GB300).
- Yes 1
- AMD Instinct Lists at least one AMD Instinct GPU.
- No 1
- Bare metal Sells non-virtualised bare-metal nodes.
- Not published
- H100 $/GPU-hr $/GPU-hr Published per-GPU-hour price of an H100. Basis (on-demand, capacity block, derived from an 8-GPU price) is in the next column.
- $4.89 1
- H100 price basis What the H100 price is: purchase mode, instance size and any derivation.
- On-demand 1x H100 SXM, price list effective 16 Nov 2026 1
- Price checked Date the price was read from the provider page.
- 2026-11-09 1
- Pricing model How the provider charges, as it states it.
- on-demand + reserved 1
- Regions Locations the provider names on its own pages.
- On-demand regions in the US (Virginia, Washington DC, Illinois, Texas x3, California, Arizona, Utah), Japan (Tokyo, Osaka), India, Germany, Israel (company docs, Nov 2026); new data centers announced in Mayes County, Oklahoma (Sep 2026) and Lowndes County, Alabama (Nov 2026) 3
- EU-hosted Names data-centre capacity in an EU member state.
- Yes 1
- Sovereignty claim The provider's own sovereignty or compliance statement, quoted or closely paraphrased.
- Not published
- Software catalogue Pre-configured application catalogue a platform provider advertises.
- Not published
- Runs on Clouds and hardware partners a platform provider lists.
- Not published
- Pricing model
- on-demand + reserved
- From
- $4.89 GPU-hour
- Note
- 1x H100 SXM on-demand per published price list effective 16 Nov 2026 (H100 SXM $4.59-$4.89 by instance size; 1x row mapped from specs). B200 SXM6 $7.69-$7.99 by instance size, 1x size not clearly identified. Prices before 16 Nov shown only to logged-in users. 1-Click Clusters: H100 from $5.54, B200 from $8.87 per GPU-hour.
Sources
- Lambda pricing accessed 2026-11-09
- Lambda 1-Click Clusters accessed 2026-11-09
- Lambda on-demand instances docs accessed 2026-11-09
- About Lambda accessed 2026-11-09
- Lambda closes $1 billion senior secured fixed rate financing accessed 2026-11-09
- Lambda closes $926 million senior secured term loan B facility accessed 2026-11-09
- Lambda to build new data center in Lowndes County, Alabama accessed 2026-11-09
- Lambda to build new data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma accessed 2026-11-09
- ClusterMAX 3.0 (SemiAnalysis) accessed 2026-11-09
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