Lambda Labs vs Vast.ai

Lambda Labs rents A100 to B200 GPUs and one-click clusters from its own datacenters, while Vast.ai is a marketplace of independent hosts who set their own rates.

What's good about each

Lambda Labs

Offers high-performance GPUs such as the Nvidia H100, H200, and GH200
Easy to use dashboard and competitive prices
Private cloud available (isolated, physical access)

Vast.ai

Budget cards to Blackwell, including the RTX PRO 6000 and B200
On-demand, interruptible and reserved rentals
SOC 2 Type II certified, with vetted datacenter hosts in Secure Cloud
REST API, CLI, Python SDK and coding agent plugins

Price comparison

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service	Lambda Labs	Vast.ai	Difference
Block storage	$20.00 /mo 100 GB @ $0.20/GB/mo	-- Not listed
Egress	Free and unlimited	-- 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

Lambda Labs offers 8 GPU models. We don't currently list GPU prices for Vast.ai.

All 8 GPUs on Lambda Labs

Salad

Access 60,000+ daily active GPUs across 191 countries, from $0.02/hour

Run RTX 50-series and 40-series cards without datacenter pricing

Pick a priority level to balance cost against interruptions

Per-second billing, with no charge for cold starts or image pulls

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Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Lambda Labs	Vast.ai
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Framework	Lambda Labs	Vast.ai
SOC 2	Type II	Type II, platform only
ISO 27001	Yes	--
HIPAA	--	Secure Cloud tier only
GDPR	--	Yes

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	Lambda Labs	Vast.ai
Founded	2012	2018
Headquarters	USA	USA
Locations	15	--
Example customers	Intuitive, Writer, Sony, Samsung, Pika	IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch
Website	lambda.ai	vast.ai

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Our data for Lambda Labs was last updated on Oct. 27, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 15, 2026.