Lightning AI
vs
Seeweb
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
- Four owned datacenters in Milan and Frosinone
- Nvidia and AMD GPUs from L4 to B300 and MI300X
- 10 TB of monthly traffic included with shared-CPU servers
- Qualified cloud provider for Italian public administration (ACN)
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Lightning AI | Seeweb | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $15.25 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD (Shared CPU 1G) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $50.58 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD (Shared CPU 8G) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $317.78 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 30 GB SSD (Cloud Server, dedicated cores) | |
| Block storage | $10.00 /mo 100 GB (Drive) · First 10 GB free | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $30.10 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $66.63 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 30 GB storage (Cloud DB 4G) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $50.73 /mo HTTP and TCP (Cloud Appliance Load Balancer) | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 1-10 TB / mo per instance | |
| Egress | Not publicly listed | $12.82 /TB 1 TB |
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 Seeweb offers 11. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Lightning AI | Seeweb | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
4 configs · 16 configs
|
$5.45 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.10 /GPU/hr On-demand | 61% cheaper on Seeweb |
|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs · 16 configs
|
$4.63 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.39 /GPU/hr On-demand | 70% cheaper on Seeweb |
|
H200
4 configs · 16 configs
|
$4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.90 /GPU/hr On-demand | 36% cheaper on Seeweb |
|
A100
8 configs · 16 configs
|
$1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand | 29% cheaper on Seeweb |
|
L40S
3 configs · 16 configs
|
$2.97 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.95 /GPU/hr On-demand | 68% cheaper on Seeweb |
|
L4
4 configs · 16 configs
|
$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand | 47% cheaper on Seeweb |
|
B200
1 config
|
$9.86 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lightning AI only |
|
T4
2 configs
|
$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lightning AI only |
|
B300
16 configs
|
-- | $4.73 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | Seeweb only |
MI300X
16 configs
|
-- | $2.23 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | Seeweb only |
Lightning AI bills on-demand; Seeweb bills on-demand and reserved (3, 6 or 12 months). 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 | Seeweb |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II, AWS and GCP clouds only | -- |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | AWS and GCP clouds 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 | Lightning AI | Seeweb |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2019 | 1998 |
| Headquarters | USA | Italy |
| Locations | -- | 5 |
| Example customers | Nvidia, Cursor, Cisco, Runway, Supercell, Stability AI, Black Forest Labs | Tophost, Artera, GlobaLeaks, RedCarbon, Progress Group |
| Website | lightning.ai | www.seeweb.it |
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Our data for Lightning AI was last updated on Oct. 28, 2026, and for Seeweb on Oct. 28, 2026.