Lightning AI
vs
OVH
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
- No egress or object storage request fees in most locations
- Bare metal, VPS and public cloud from one provider
- 40+ datacenters across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific
- European-based, may ease GDPR compliance
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Lightning AI | OVH | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $5.35 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (VPS-1) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $10.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VPS-2) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $27.50 /mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM (VPS-4) | |
| Block storage | $10.00 /mo 100 GB (Drive) · First 10 GB free | $9.50 /mo 100 GB (High Speed, 3,000 IOPS) | 5% cheaper on OVH |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $8.19 /mo 1 TB (Standard, 1-AZ) | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $63.36 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Discovery DB1-4) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $55.01 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Discovery DB1-4, Valkey) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $6.84 /mo 200 Mbps (Load Balancer S) · Node only. A floating IP adds $2.30 / mo. | |
| Egress | Not publicly listed | Free and unlimited Billed in Singapore and Sydney |
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 OVH offers 9. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Lightning AI | OVH | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
4 configs · 3 configs
|
$5.45 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.99 /GPU/hr On-demand | 45% cheaper on OVH |
|
H200
4 configs · 1 config
|
$4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $6.20 /GPU/hr On-demand | 27% cheaper on Lightning AI |
|
A100
8 configs · 3 configs
|
$1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.07 /GPU/hr On-demand | 50% cheaper on Lightning AI |
|
L40S
3 configs · 3 configs
|
$2.97 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | 39% cheaper on OVH |
|
L4
4 configs · 3 configs
|
$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 21% cheaper on Lightning AI |
|
B200
1 config
|
$9.86 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lightning AI only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs
|
$4.63 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lightning AI only |
|
T4
2 configs
|
$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lightning AI only |
|
V100
3 configs
|
-- | $0.77 /GPU/hr On-demand | OVH only |
|
A10
3 configs
|
-- | $1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | OVH only |
Lightning AI bills on-demand; OVH 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 | OVH |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II, AWS and GCP clouds only | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | AWS and GCP clouds only | US data centers only |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Level 1, Hosted Private Cloud only |
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 | OVH |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2019 | 1999 |
| Headquarters | USA | France |
| Locations | -- | 19 |
| Example customers | Nvidia, Cursor, Cisco, Runway, Supercell, Stability AI, Black Forest Labs | AnyDesk, Sopra Steria, Floatplane, German Federal Police |
| Website | lightning.ai | www.ovhcloud.com |
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Our data for Lightning AI was last updated on Oct. 28, 2026, and for OVH on Oct. 28, 2026.