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Lambda Labs pricing
Lambda Labs publishes 2 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
- $1.1/per-hour
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Not on record
Lambda Labs 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reserved | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
| On-Demand | $1.1/per-hour | 2 | +$1.1/per-hour, 2 more features |
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.
Reserved
FreeThe entry tier. It covers volume discounts, guaranteed capacity.
On-Demand
$1.1/per-hourOver Reserved, this tier adds:
- A10 GPU
- Instant availability
Where Lambda Labs stops being free
Reserved, Free
- Volume discounts
- Guaranteed capacity
On-Demand, $1.1/per-hour
The first thing you pay for:
- A10 GPU
- Instant availability
What the product covers
The full Lambda Labs 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.
Core
- NVIDIA GPUs
- Pre-installed frameworks
- Persistent storage
- SSH access
Integrations
- JupyterLab
- VSCode
- SSH
Platform
- Cloud support
People bring Lambda Labs in for renting gpu instances for model training and inference, short term access to high memory accelerators without buying hardware. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Lambda Labs are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in AI Tools
Across the 6 ai tools tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $0.68/month. Lambda Labs starts at $1.1/per-hour, which puts it above the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lambda Labs (this page) | $1.1/per-hour | usage-based | - | |
| Voiceflow | Free | freemium | - | vs Lambda Labs |
| Chatbase | On request | subscription | - | vs Lambda Labs |
| CoreWeave | $0.35/per-hour | usage-based | - | vs Lambda Labs |
| Anthropic API | $3/per-million-tokens | usage-based | - | vs Lambda Labs |
| Character.AI | Free, then $9.99/month | - | - | vs Lambda Labs |
| Claude | Free, then $1/per million input tokens | - | - | vs Lambda Labs |
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 Labs badges page.
Before you pay for Lambda Labs
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: 2 tiers between Free and $1.1/per-hour, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Lambda Labs against the tools that do have one before committing.
Lambda Labs runs on cloud, and is published by Lambda Labs of San Francisco, California. The full record is on the Lambda Labs review, and the rest of the category is under best ai tools tools.
Lambda Labs pricing questions
- How much does Lambda Labs cost?
- Lambda Labs publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Reserved up to $1.1/per-hour for On-Demand. The cheapest paid tier is Free.
- Does Lambda Labs have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Lambda Labs is listed as usage-based. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Reserved and On-Demand on Lambda Labs?
- On-Demand costs $1.1/per-hour against Free, and adds a10 gpu, instant availability.
- Is Lambda Labs expensive for a ai tools tool?
- It starts above the middle of its category. Across the 6 ai tools tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $0.68/month; Lambda Labs starts at $1.1/per-hour.
- Which ai tools tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 ai tools tools listed alongside Lambda Labs have a free tier: Voiceflow, Character.AI, Claude, AI21 Labs.
- What am I actually paying for with Lambda Labs?
- The record lists 8 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for renting gpu instances for model training and inference, short term access to high memory accelerators without buying hardware.
- Does Lambda Labs charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 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 Labs 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 Labs against before paying?
- The closest ai tools tools in this directory are Voiceflow, Chatbase, CoreWeave, Anthropic API. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Lambda Labs covering price, platforms and features.