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Lambda

The Superintelligence Cloud — on-demand GPUs, 1-Click Clusters, and superclusters.

Category
Inference
Pricing
PAID
Source
Proprietary
Hosting
Cloud
Platforms
WebAPI
Models
Model-agnostic
Verified
Jun 11, 2026

Lambda is a GPU cloud for AI training and inference, spanning on-demand HGX B200 and H100 instances, self-serve 1-Click Clusters, and single-tenant superclusters built on NVIDIA's latest generations. A GPU specialist since 2012, it sells compute by the hour without long-term hyperscaler contracts and co-engineers large deployments with NVIDIA.

Pros & cons

  • Single GPUs up to superclusters
  • Self-serve multi-node clusters
  • GPU-focused since 2012
  • Deep NVIDIA collaboration
  • No free tier
  • In-demand GPUs can sell out
  • Fewer managed services than hyperscalers

Tags

  • #gpu-cloud
  • #training
  • #clusters
  • #nvidia
  • #compute

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