Hyperbolic
vs
Lium
Both rent H100 and H200 GPUs from other people's hardware. Hyperbolic curates partner datacenter capacity into a rate card with serverless inference, while Lium rents from independent hosts per minute with SSH root access.
What's good about each
- 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
- 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
GPUs
Lium offers 12 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Hyperbolic. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Hyperbolic | Lium | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
7 configs
|
-- | $1.30 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
B300
3 configs
|
-- | $9.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
B200
3 configs
|
-- | $5.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs
|
-- | $1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
H200
4 configs
|
-- | $3.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
RTX 5090
9 configs
|
-- | $0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
A100
1 config
|
-- | $1.01 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
RTX 4090
5 configs
|
-- | $0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
L40S
1 config
|
-- | $0.38 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
RTX 3090
3 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.
| Service | Hyperbolic | Lium |
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Serverless Functions |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Hyperbolic | Lium |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2022 | 2024 |
| Headquarters | USA | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| Locations | -- | 23 |
| Example customers | -- | -- |
| Website | www.hyperbolic.ai | lium.io |
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Our data for Hyperbolic was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Lium on Sept. 28, 2026.