Hyperbolic vs Lium
Hyperbolic pairs rented GPUs with a managed inference API for open models, while Lium focuses on compute, billed per minute with SSH root access.
What's good about...
Hyperbolic
- Single GPU to 1,000+ GPU clusters, InfiniBand up to 3.2 Tb/s
- Virtual machine or bare metal, both with root SSH access
- 99.5% uptime SLA, with self-serve reservations from one week
- OpenAI-compatible inference API
Lium
- 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
Hyperbolic Pricing
Hyperbolic sells GPU capacity three ways:
- On-Demand: billed hourly against prepaid credits, with the rate locked at instance creation.
- Reserved: terms from one week, paid up front, with longer terms priced lower.
- Private Cloud: dedicated clusters under a custom contract.
Storage volumes are billed hourly by provisioned size. On-demand rates are refreshed weekly to track supplier rates.
Lium Pricing
Lium bills per minute with no hourly minimum, against a prepaid balance.
GPU Fleet Overview
Billing Options
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Available Models
Lium offers 10 GPU models.
Hyperbolic
H100Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Hyperbolic and Lium offer:
Company details
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| Website | www.hyperbolic.ai | lium.io |
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| Founded | 2022 | 2024 |
| Data Center Locations | -- | 14 |
| Example Customers | -- | -- |
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Our data for Hyperbolic was last updated on Aug. 14, 2026, and for Lium on Sept. 8, 2026.