Cloudways
vs
Lium
What's good about each
- Deploy to 65+ datacenter regions across multiple cloud providers
- Built-in cache, database, and CDN integration
- Offers free SSL, staging environments, and automated backups
- Competitive pricing, billed per minute with no hourly minimum
- Rent a single GPU or a full 8-GPU node
- Wide range of GPU models, including H100, H200 and RTX PRO 6000
- CLI, Python SDK and an agent skill for coding agents
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Cloudways | Lium | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $11.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $88.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $149.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | Included depending on plan | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | 1-12 TB / mo | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (DO provider) | -- Not listed |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Lium offers 13 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Cloudways. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Cloudways | Lium | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
6 configs
|
-- | $1.30 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
B300
3 configs
|
-- | $9.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
B200
3 configs
|
-- | $5.44 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
5 configs
|
-- | $1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
H200
2 configs
|
-- | $3.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
RTX 5090
9 configs
|
-- | $0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
A100
1 config
|
-- | $1.18 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
RTX 4090
5 configs
|
-- | $0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
L40S
1 config
|
-- | $0.38 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
RTX 3090
4 configs
|
-- | $0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
Lium bills on-demand and spot. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Cloudways | Lium |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 | 2024 |
| Headquarters | USA | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| Locations | -- | 23 |
| Example customers | Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko | -- |
| Website | www.cloudways.com | lium.io |
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Our data for Cloudways was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Lium on Sept. 28, 2026.