Lambda review
Facts from Lambda’s own pricing and docs pages, September 2026 — 56 read from a quoted sentence on the page we archived.
Lambda rents GPUs from $0.69 per GPU-hour on demand, bills per minute, and asks no minimum commitment. Egress is free. Lambda does not publish an uptime SLA.
| On-Demand instances | 1-Click Clusters | |
|---|---|---|
| From | $0.69/GPU-hr (Quadro RTX 6000) | $5.54–6.16/GPU-hr (H100 by size) |
| Minimum term | None | 2 weeks to 1 year; 1 year+ by quote |
| Billing | Per minute, weekly invoice | Per GPU-hour, billed weekly per the reservation |
| Tenancy | VMs, 1× to 8× GPUs | Single-tenant clusters, 16 to 2,000+ GPUs, InfiniBand |
| Provisioning | Minutes; first-come access | Reservation reviewed and approved |
| Payment | Credit card ($10 pre-authorisation) | Invoice, due within ten days |
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How much does Lambda cost?
As of September 2026, the lowest published on-demand rate is $0.69 per GPU-hour for the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 24GB. Lambda publishes an on-demand rate for 11 GPU models. Billing is per minute.
Does Lambda have an uptime SLA?
Lambda does not publish an uptime commitment on its own site.
Is there a minimum commitment on Lambda?
No. Lambda states none on demand; 2 weeks on clusters.
Does Lambda charge for egress?
No. Lambda states that egress is free.
Can I sign up to Lambda without approval?
Lambda states that signup is self-serve. On approval and identity checks it states: card pre-authorisation; purchases limited to listed countries.
Are Lambda payments refundable?
Lambda states: service credits only; expire after 12 months.
Where are Lambda's data centres?
Lambda lists 14 regions: US (9), Japan (2), India, Germany, Israel.
Who do you contract with at Lambda?
The contracting entity is Lambda, Inc. (Delaware).
Reviewed September 2026, from Lambda’s own site. 56 facts, each quoted from the page it was read on.