Captured September 19, 2026 at 1440px wide.
Lambda plans and prices
| Plan | Price | Billing |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA HGX B200 | $9.86 | /GPU/HR |
| NVIDIA HGX B200 | $9.36 | /GPU/HR |
| NVIDIA HGX B200 | $8.87 | /GPU/HR |
| NVIDIA B200 SXM6 | $6.69 | /GPU/HR |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.99 | /GPU/HR |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM | $2.79 | /GPU/HR |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM | $1.99 | /GPU/HR |
| NVIDIA Tesla V100 | $0.79 | /GPU/HR |
As printed on the page captured September 19, 2026.
How does Lambda pricing work?
The value metric is the GPU-hour, normalized per GPU rather than per machine. The same column heading, PRICE/GPU/HR*, runs through both tables, so a 16-GPU cluster at $9.86 and a single H100 instance at $3.99 are read in one currency. Packaging is by access model. 1-Click Clusters are 'Production-ready clusters from 16 to 2,000+ NVIDIA B200 or H100 GPUs', priced by GPU count and booked by duration, and Instances are 'self-serve, first-come access' to B200, H100, A100 and V100 machines, each row listing VRAM/GPU, vCPUs, RAM and storage beside the rate. For an AI cloud, the GPU is the resource the customer is buying, and the unit puts it front and center.
The motion is hybrid and both paths open in the hero. 'AI cloud pricing' sits over 'Clear, straightforward pricing for Instances, 1-Click Clusters™, and Superclusters.' and 'Contact us for reserved capacity at our lowest prices.', followed by LAUNCH GPU INSTANCE and TALK TO OUR TEAM side by side. The clusters section follows, with LEARN MORE, an NVIDIA HGX B200 / NVIDIA H100 selector and a four-row table where every row ends in 'Talk to our team'. The instances section follows with LAUNCH GPU INSTANCE, an 8X, 4X, 2X and 1X size selector and a five-row table. Both tables close on '* plus applicable sales tax/VAT/GST'. The dark layout and monospace column labels read as a rate card written for engineers.
Under the hood, the page lays out a commitment ladder. Instances are on demand and first come, clusters are booked for '2 weeks – 1 year' with a published volume curve, and reserved capacity sits at the top 'at our lowest prices'. The price falls as count and duration rise. That points to commitments that let Lambda plan GPU supply ahead and share part of that certainty with the customer as a lower rate. The '1 year+' row for 16+ GPUs is priced in conversation, where term, volume and timing are shaped together. Worth borrowing: one normalized unit across every product, a volume curve printed as numbers, and a tax line under every table.
What does Lambda's pricing page do well?
- PRICE/GPU/HR normalizes across cluster sizes and instance sizes, so every number on the page compares directly with every other
- The volume curve is printed as a schedule: $9.86 at 16 GPUs, $9.36 at 64, $8.87 at 256+
- A DURATION column, '2 weeks – 1 year', ties each cluster rate to its commitment window
- Two hero CTAs, LAUNCH GPU INSTANCE and TALK TO OUR TEAM, route self-serve and sales-led buyers from the first screen
- Both tables carry '* plus applicable sales tax/VAT/GST', so the rate and its tax treatment arrive together
What does Lambda's pricing page reveal about its pricing strategy?
- Three access modes priced by commitment: first-come Instances, booked 1-Click Clusters and reserved capacity 'at our lowest prices'
- A rate that falls with GPU count and duration points to commitments that let Lambda plan supply ahead
- Every cluster row routes to 'Talk to our team', where dates, GPU count and duration are matched to available capacity
- The 8X, 4X, 2X and 1X selector sells the same hardware from a full node down to a single GPU
- Instance rows list storage beside the rate, '22 TiB SSD' on the B200 and H100, which points to local storage priced into the node
Learn with Orb
- GuidePay-as-you-go pricing for SaaS Instances offer self-serve, first-come access by the GPU-hour, from $0.79 for a V100; Orb's guide covers pay-as-you-go with a lower barrier to entry and revenue that scales with use.
- GuideAn AI founder's guide to prepaid credits Cluster rates fall from $9.86 to $8.87 per GPU-hour as bookings grow, across terms of 2 weeks to 1 year; Orb's CTO covers how a larger commitment earns a better rate.
Questions about Lambda pricing
How much does Lambda cost?
Lambda's pricing starts at $0.79/GPU/hr. Lambda prices by usage.
What pricing model does Lambda use?
Lambda prices by usage. Buyers can sign up on their own or go through the sales team. Its plans are aimed mainly at developers.
Does Lambda have a free plan?
Lambda's pricing page shows no free plan or free trial. The lowest paid plan starts at $0.79/GPU/hr.
Does Lambda offer an annual discount?
Lambda's pricing page shows a single billing period. The listed prices start at $0.79/GPU/hr. Terms for the plans priced through sales are set with the sales team.
How is Lambda's pricing page laid out?
The page shows its pricing and includes a comparison table. The breakdown above marks 12 points on it: 6 things it does well and 6 insights into the pricing.
How does Lambda 1-Click Cluster pricing change with GPU count?
Lambda prices NVIDIA HGX B200 1-Click Clusters per GPU-hour on a published volume schedule: $9.86 at 16 GPUs, $9.36 at 64 GPUs and $8.87 at 256+ GPUs. Each of these rows carries a booking window of "2 weeks – 1 year". Commitments of "1 year+" for 16+ GPUs are priced through "Talk to our team".
How do I get Lambda's lowest GPU prices with reserved capacity?
The Lambda pricing page invites buyers to "Contact us for reserved capacity at our lowest prices." The TALK TO OUR TEAM button sits in the hero beside LAUNCH GPU INSTANCE, and every 1-Click Cluster row also ends in "Talk to our team". Reserved capacity is the top tier above self-serve Instances and booked clusters.
Does Lambda's price per GPU-hour include sales tax?
Lambda's PRICE/GPU/HR rates are listed before tax, with both the cluster and instance tables noting "* plus applicable sales tax/VAT/GST". For example, an NVIDIA H100 SXM instance is $3.99 per GPU-hour plus applicable tax. The same note applies to cluster rates such as $9.86 per GPU-hour for 16 B200 GPUs.
From the page as captured September 19, 2026. Current prices are on lambda.ai
Chroma
$250/mo + usageChroma prints all four metered rates in the hero, Write at $2.50 per GiB, Storage at $0.33 per GiB per month, Query at $0.0075 per TiB and Network at $0.09 per GiB returned, then hands the reader a calculator that turns documents and queries into a $79 monthly total. Plans sit on top of the meter: Starter at $0 plus usage, Team at $250 a month plus usage with $100 in credits, and Enterprise on custom terms.
ClickHouse
$0.2181/compute unit/hrClickHouse opens with its model in one line, 'Pay only for the compute and storage you use, metered separately and scaled to zero when idle.', sets the cloud and region, then gives every tier the same two meters: storage flat at '$25.30 Per 1TB / mo' and compute at $0.2181, $0.2985 and $0.3903 per unit per hour. The estimator opens pre-filled with a 1 TB real-time analytics workload at '$658' a month, and an eight-question FAQ explains each line that can appear on the bill.
Confluent
~$385/moConfluent prices serverless Kafka on a composite meter, eCKU-hours plus data in and out per GB plus storage per GB-month, and closes its rate table with an 'Estimated Monthly Starting Cost' of $0, $385, $895 and $2,300 that turns an hourly unit into a budget number. Behind it sit two discount structures and an annual commitment that can be spent across the whole Confluent Cloud stack.
CoreWeave
From $6.50/instance/hrCoreWeave publishes a full rate card: twelve GPU instance types and ten CPU types, each priced per hour on-demand and spot for North America and Europe, then storage, networking, Direct Connect and managed Kubernetes. The unit is a fully specified instance-hour, with GPU count, VRAM, vCPUs, system RAM and local storage printed beside every rate. Reserved capacity, the newest silicon and every next step run through the sales team, which is where a GPU cloud shapes committed deals.
Databricks
From $0.069/CUDatabricks prices a whole data platform on one consumption unit, the DBU, with seven workload tiles that each print a 'Starting at' rate and link to a full SKU price list. Billing runs 'at per second granularity' on pay-as-you-go, and Committed Use Contracts trade larger commitments for discounts that can flex across clouds. The page works as the front door to a rate table, organized by the job a customer is doing.
Datadog
$15/host/moDatadog publishes a rate card per product, with every billable SKU listed in a left-hand navigator from AI Credits to Workflow Automation. Infrastructure Monitoring prices per host across three host levels: Basic, set with sales, beside Pro starting at $ 15 and Enterprise at $ 23 billed annually, with on-demand rates printed beside them and allotments of containers, custom metrics and custom events attached to each paid host. The bill is the sum of the products a customer adopts, and Basic hosts let one account price noncritical workloads at their own level.