Lightning AI
vs
Oracle Cloud
What's good about each
- Billed by the second, interruptible machines 50-80% off
- Studios move between its own cloud, AWS, GCP, Lambda and Nebius
- Owned H100, B200 and GB300 fleet in US datacenters
- Bring your own AWS or GCP account and spend cloud credits
- 10 TB of free egress each month
- Same compute and storage prices in every region
- Flexible shapes with CPU and memory sized separately
- Oracle Database inside AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Always Free tier with Arm VMs and databases
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Lightning AI | Oracle Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $3.33 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex, 12.5% burstable) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $44.64 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $89.28 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | |
| Block storage | $10.00 /mo 100 GB (Drive) · First 10 GB free | $4.25 /mo 100 GB (Balanced) | 57% cheaper on Oracle Cloud |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $26.49 /mo 1 TB | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $119.65 /mo 2 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.E5.Flex) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $27.94 /mo 2 GB RAM (OCI Cache, Valkey) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | Free Network Load Balancer | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $31.57 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 10 TB / mo | |
| Egress | Not publicly listed | $8.50 /TB $0.0085 / GB (North America, Europe) |
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
Lightning AI offers 8 GPU models, while Oracle Cloud offers 15. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Lightning AI | Oracle Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
4 configs · 1 config
|
$5.45 /GPU/hr On-demand | $10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 45% cheaper on Lightning AI |
|
B200
1 config · 1 config
|
$9.86 /GPU/hr On-demand | $14.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 30% cheaper on Lightning AI |
|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs · 1 config
|
$4.63 /GPU/hr On-demand | $4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
|
H200
4 configs · 1 config
|
$4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 55% cheaper on Lightning AI |
|
A100
8 configs · 2 configs
|
$1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.05 /GPU/hr On-demand | 49% cheaper on Lightning AI |
|
L40S
3 configs · 1 config
|
$2.97 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 15% cheaper on Lightning AI |
|
L4
4 configs
|
$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lightning AI only |
|
T4
2 configs
|
$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lightning AI only |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- | $15.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
GB300
1 config
|
-- | $18.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
Lightning AI bills on-demand; Oracle Cloud bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Lightning AI | Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II, AWS and GCP clouds only | Yes |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | AWS and GCP clouds only | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Yes |
| FedRAMP | -- | High, US Government Cloud |
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 | Lightning AI | Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2019 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | -- | 45 |
| Example customers | Nvidia, Cursor, Cisco, Runway, Supercell, Stability AI, Black Forest Labs | Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia |
| Website | lightning.ai | www.oracle.com |
Alternatives to consider
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Our data for Lightning AI was last updated on Oct. 28, 2026, and for Oracle Cloud on Oct. 28, 2026.