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Lambda pricing
Lambda publishes 6 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- On request
- Model
- Pay-as-you-go hourly pricing with volume discounts for reserved capacity
- Tiers
- 6
- Free tier
- Not on record
Lambda plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-Click Clusters B200 | On request | 3 | Entry tier |
| 1-Click Clusters H100 | On request | 2 | Priced on request |
| On-Demand Instances B200 | On request | 1 | Priced on request |
| On-Demand Instances H100 | On request | 1 | Priced on request |
| On-Demand Instances A100 | On request | 1 | Priced on request |
| Supercluster | On request | 1 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
1-Click Clusters B200
On requestThe entry tier. It covers 16 gpus: $9.86/gpu/hour, 256+ gpus: $8.87/gpu/hour, 1-year+ reserved discounts available.
1-Click Clusters H100
On requestOver 1-Click Clusters B200, this tier adds:
- 16 GPUs: $6.16/GPU/hour
- 256+ GPUs: $5.54/GPU/hour
On-Demand Instances B200
On requestOver 1-Click Clusters H100, this tier adds:
- SXM6: $6.69/GPU/hour
On-Demand Instances H100
On requestOver On-Demand Instances B200, this tier adds:
- SXM: $3.99/GPU/hour
On-Demand Instances A100
On requestOver On-Demand Instances H100, this tier adds:
- SXM (80GB): $2.79/GPU/hour
Supercluster
On requestOver On-Demand Instances A100, this tier adds:
- Custom pricing for single-tenant deployment
What the product covers
The full Lambda feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Infrastructure
- Superclusters
- 1-Click Clusters
- On-demand instances
- Liquid cooling
- InfiniBand networking
Management
- Managed orchestration
Support
- Co-engineering support
People bring Lambda in for training foundation models at scale with dedicated gpu infrastructure, large-scale inference serving on enterprise-grade hardware, multi-gpu distributed training with infiniband networking, single-tenant secure compute for regulated industries, ai lab infrastructure for frontier model development. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Lambda are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud
Too few cloud tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lambda (this page) | On request | Pay-as-you-go hourly pricing with volume discounts for reserved capacity | - | |
| Zipkin | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Lambda |
| HAProxy | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Lambda |
| Thanos | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Lambda |
| Flux | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Lambda |
| Kustomize | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Lambda |
| VictoriaMetrics | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Lambda |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Lambda badges page.
Before you pay for Lambda
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 6 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Lambda against the tools that do have one before committing.
Lambda runs on cloud, and is published by Lambda. The full record is on the Lambda review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Lambda pricing questions
- How much does Lambda cost?
- Lambda publishes 6 tiers, from On request for 1-Click Clusters B200 up to On request for Supercluster. The cheapest paid tier is On request.
- Does Lambda have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Lambda is listed as Pay-as-you-go hourly pricing with volume discounts for reserved capacity. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between 1-Click Clusters B200 and 1-Click Clusters H100 on Lambda?
- 1-Click Clusters H100 costs On request against On request, and adds 16 gpus: $6.16/gpu/hour, 256+ gpus: $5.54/gpu/hour.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Lambda have a free tier: Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux, Kustomize.
- What am I actually paying for with Lambda?
- The record lists 7 features across 3 areas: infrastructure, management, support. In practice it is brought in for training foundation models at scale with dedicated gpu infrastructure, large-scale inference serving on enterprise-grade hardware, multi-gpu distributed training with infiniband networking.
- Does Lambda charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 6 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Lambda prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Lambda against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Lambda covering price, platforms and features.