Lightning AI
AI development platform (AI Studio, PyTorch Lightning) with self-serve GPU instances and reservable clusters. Merged with GPU cloud operator Voltage Park in January 2026, adding 36,000+ owned NVIDIA GPUs in US data centres.
- H100 list price
- $5.45per GPU-hour source, 9 Nov 2026
- B200 list price
- $9.86per GPU-hour source, 9 Nov 2026
- ClusterMAX
- No 3.0 tier
- Ownership
- Private source, 9 Nov 2026
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Ownership change
Jan 2026Merged with Voltage Park. Lightning AI merged with GPU cloud operator Voltage Park, adding 36,000+ owned NVIDIA GPUs in US data centres to its AI development platform. Source
Facts
Source per value- Headquarters Headquarters city and country as stated by the company or its filings.
- Not published
- Ownership Publicly listed, privately held, or a subsidiary of another company.
- private 3
- 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".
- L4, L40S, RTX Pro 6000, A100, H100, H200, B200, GB300 1
- All GPU models Every accelerator model the provider lists on its own site as of the verification date.
- T4, L4, L40S, RTX Pro 6000, A100, H100, H200, B200, GB300 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.
- $5.45 1
- B200 list price $/GPU-hr Published on-demand list price for one NVIDIA B200. Same rules as the H100 price.
- $9.86 1
- 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 1
- Regions (detail) Countries or regions where the provider states it runs capacity.
- US (seven Tier 3+ data centres, per company about page, Nov 2026) 1
- 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.
- 36,000+ NVIDIA GPUs across seven US data centres (company about page and merger post, 2026) 2
- Public customers Customers named publicly by the provider or in reputable press.
- NVIDIA, Cursor, Cisco, Runway, Supercell, Stability AI, Black Forest Labs (logos on company site) 1
- 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.
- $108,000,000 2
- Funding note What the funding/debt number is, when it was announced and by whom.
- $108M+ total venture funding as stated on company about page (investors include Index Ventures, Coatue, Bain Capital Ventures, NVIDIA, Cisco Investments, J.P. Morgan); Voltage Park merger terms not disclosed 2
- Interconnect Cluster network fabrics the provider lists (InfiniBand, RoCE, Ethernet, NVLink).
- Not published
- Bare metal Offers bare-metal GPU servers (no hypervisor).
- Yes 1
- 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.
- Not published
- ClusterMAX edition Edition of ClusterMAX the rating comes from (3.0 published September 2026).
- Not published
Pricing detail
- Pricing model
- on-demand + reserved clusters
- From
- $5.45 per GPU-hour
- What the prices cover
- H100 80GB on lightning.ai/pricing, 2026-11-09; SXM/PCIe not stated; one table shows $5.82. B200 180GB $9.86. Cluster reservations (bare metal/Slurm/Kubernetes) are contact-sales. ClusterMAX 3.0 lists Lightning as 'Unavailable' (not rated).
Sources
4- Lightning AI pricing accessed 2026-11-09
- Lightning AI about accessed 2026-11-09
- Why we merged Lightning AI and Voltage Park (21 Jan 2026) accessed 2026-11-09
- SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX 3.0 (Sep 2026) rankings image accessed 2026-11-09
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