Crusoe Cloud vs Lambda
Two GPU specialist providers, priced against each other on the 3 GPUs both of them rent. Published per-GPU on-demand rates as each provider last stated them, with what their own pages say about billing, commitment and egress beside the numbers.
Lambda is cheaper on 2 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 16%. Crusoe Cloud is cheaper on the other 1.
- How they sell
- GPU specialist An operator whose whole business is renting these cards.
- GPU models
- 9 18 offers
- Registered in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- How they sell
- GPU specialist An operator whose whole business is renting these cards.
- GPU models
- 11 26 offers
- Registered in
- 🇺🇸 United States
The 3 cards both of them rent, cheapest published per-GPU on-demand rate each. Dearest first.
| GPU | Crusoe Cloud | Lambda | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 SXM6 180GB | $8.50/hr | $6.69/hr | 21% cheaper on Lambda |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $4.50/hr | $3.99/hr | 11% cheaper on Lambda |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB | $2.30/hr | $2.79/hr | 18% cheaper on Crusoe Cloud |
Per GPU per hour, on-demand list prices as each provider last published them. Rates exclude tax and vary by region; a cheaper rate is not the same machine, the same network or the same support.
| Crusoe Cloud | Lambda | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing granularityOn short jobs this outweighs the rate: an hour minimum on a 90-second run costs more than a 30% dearer per-second rate. | Hourly for instances; per cluster-hour for Kubernetes | Per minute |
| Minimum commitment | None on hourly instances | None on demand; 2 weeks on clusters |
| Payment model | Fees per the Admin Console or a separate agreement | Postpaid, weekly invoices; clusters invoiced on reservation |
| Egress | Free | Free |
| Uptime SLA | 99.5% per GPU VM, monthly | not stated |
| Regions | not stated | 14 regions: US (9), Japan (2), India, Germany, Israel |
Neither site tells you whether your data trains their models, whether a commitment auto-renews, how long you have to dispute a bill or how much warning you get before maintenance. We looked on both and record the absence rather than filling it in — if you need any of it, ask before you commit.
- NVIDIA L40S 48GB$1.50/hr
- NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB$2.00/hr
- AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB$3.45/hr
- NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB$5.40/hr
- NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 24GB$0.69/hr
- NVIDIA Tesla V100 16GB$0.79/hr
- NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB$1.09/hr
- NVIDIA A10 24GB$1.29/hr
- NVIDIA A100 PCIe 40GB$1.99/hr
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB$1.99/hr
- NVIDIA GH200 96GB$2.29/hr
- NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB$3.29/hr
Is Crusoe Cloud cheaper than Lambda?
Lambda is cheaper on 2 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 16%. Crusoe Cloud is cheaper on the other 1.
Which GPUs do Crusoe Cloud and Lambda both rent?
NVIDIA B200 SXM6 180GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB — 3 in total, on published per-GPU on-demand rates.
What is the cheapest GPU at Crusoe Cloud and at Lambda?
Of the cards both rent, Crusoe Cloud starts at $2.30 per GPU-hour and Lambda at $2.79.