Lambda

San Francisco GPU cloud (formerly lambda.ai) selling self-serve on-demand NVIDIA instances, reservable InfiniBand clusters (1-Click Clusters) and large private clusters to AI developers and labs. Building new data centers in Oklahoma and Alabama.

HQ San Francisco, US Founded 2012 Verified

H100 list price
$4.89per GPU-hour source, 9 Nov 2026
B200 list price
Not published
ClusterMAX
Silver source, 9 Nov 2026 Edition 3.0
Ownership
Private source, 9 Nov 2026

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Facts

Source per value
Headquarters Headquarters city and country as stated by the company or its filings.
San Francisco, US 1
Ownership Publicly listed, privately held, or a subsidiary of another company.
private 1
Ticker Exchange and ticker symbol if listed, e.g. NASDAQ: CRWV. Null if private or not stated on a fetched source.
Not published
Parent company Owner or group, when the provider is a subsidiary or has merged (e.g. Voltage Park under Lightning AI, Taiga Cloud under Quake AI / Rumble).
Not published
GPUs offered Data-centre accelerators (Blackwell, Hopper, Ada, Ampere and AMD Instinct) listed on the provider's own site, newest first as the provider lists them. The full list, including workstation and older cards, is under "All GPU models".
B200, H100, GH200, A100 1
All GPU models Every accelerator model the provider lists on its own site as of the verification date.
B200, H100, GH200, A100, A10, A6000, RTX 6000, V100 1
H100 Lists NVIDIA H100 on its own site.
Yes 1
Blackwell Lists at least one NVIDIA Blackwell data-centre GPU (B100, B200, B300, GB200 or GB300).
Yes 1
AMD Instinct Lists at least one AMD Instinct GPU (MI300X, MI325X, MI350X, MI355X or newer).
No 1
H100 list price $/GPU-hr Published on-demand list price for one NVIDIA H100 (SXM unless pricing.note says otherwise), taken from the provider's own pricing page. Null if not published, quote-only, host-set (marketplaces) or not in USD.
$4.89 1
B200 list price $/GPU-hr Published on-demand list price for one NVIDIA B200. Same rules as the H100 price.
Not published
Price checked Date the list prices were read from the provider's pricing page.
2026-11-09 1
Regions Short form of where the provider states it runs capacity. Full detail under "Regions (detail)".
US, Japan, India, Germany, Israel 3
Regions (detail) Countries or regions where the provider states it runs capacity.
On-demand regions in the US (Virginia, Washington DC, Illinois, Texas x3, California, Arizona, Utah), Japan (Tokyo, Osaka), India, Germany, Israel (company docs, Nov 2026); new data centers announced in Mayes County, Oklahoma (Sep 2026) and Lowndes County, Alabama (Nov 2026) 3
Stated capacity GPU count, MW/GW of power or backlog exactly as the company or its filings state it, with the as-of date. Never estimated.
Not published
Public customers Customers named publicly by the provider or in reputable press.
Not published
Funding / debt (USD) $ Total funding if a source states a total; otherwise the latest sourced equity round or debt facility. See funding_note for what the number covers.
$1,008,000,000 5
Funding note What the funding/debt number is, when it was announced and by whom.
$1.008B senior secured fixed-rate delayed-draw term loan, Oct 2026; preceded by a $926M term loan B (closed 27 Aug 2026) and a $1B credit facility (May 2026) (company releases) 5
Interconnect Cluster network fabrics the provider lists (InfiniBand, RoCE, Ethernet, NVLink).
InfiniBand 1
Bare metal Offers bare-metal GPU servers (no hypervisor).
Not published
Kubernetes Offers a managed Kubernetes service on GPU nodes.
Yes 1
Slurm Offers managed Slurm (including Slurm-on-Kubernetes) for training clusters.
Yes 1
Reserved contracts Sells committed or reserved capacity (monthly to multi-year).
Yes 1
Self-serve Customers can sign up and launch GPU instances on demand without a sales contract.
Yes 1
ClusterMAX SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX tier for the provider. 'Participation' is the 3.0 tier for providers that took part without earning a medal. Null if not rated, listed as unavailable, or not confirmed.
Silver 9
ClusterMAX edition Edition of ClusterMAX the rating comes from (3.0 published September 2026).
3.0 9

Pricing detail

Pricing model
on-demand + reserved
From
$4.89 per GPU-hour
What the prices cover
1x H100 SXM on-demand per published price list effective 16 Nov 2026 (H100 SXM $4.59-$4.89 by instance size; 1x row mapped from specs). B200 SXM6 $7.69-$7.99 by instance size, 1x size not clearly identified. Prices before 16 Nov shown only to logged-in users. 1-Click Clusters: H100 from $5.54, B200 from $8.87 per GPU-hour.

Sources

9
  1. Lambda pricing accessed 2026-11-09
  2. Lambda 1-Click Clusters accessed 2026-11-09
  3. Lambda on-demand instances docs accessed 2026-11-09
  4. About Lambda accessed 2026-11-09
  5. Lambda closes $1 billion senior secured fixed rate financing accessed 2026-11-09
  6. Lambda closes $926 million senior secured term loan B facility accessed 2026-11-09
  7. Lambda to build new data center in Lowndes County, Alabama accessed 2026-11-09
  8. Lambda to build new data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma accessed 2026-11-09
  9. ClusterMAX 3.0 (SemiAnalysis) accessed 2026-11-09

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