Lium
vs
Nebius
Both rent Nvidia GPUs with spot pricing. Lium rents from independent hosts per minute with root access, while Nebius runs its own datacenters with managed Kubernetes, Postgres and Blackwell nodes.
What's good about each
- 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
- Nvidia GPUs from L40S up to GB300 NVL72 racks
- Preemptible GPU instances at a lower hourly rate
- Managed Kubernetes and Slurm clusters at no extra charge
- Free outbound traffic from virtual machines
- Per-token inference API for open-weight models
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Lium | Nebius | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $35.71 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (cpu-d3) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $71.42 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (cpu-d3) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $142.85 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (cpu-d3) | |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $7.10 /mo 100 GB (Network SSD) | |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $19.42 /mo 1 TB (Standard) | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $104.35 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (2vcpu-8gb) | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | Free from VMs, billed from Object Storage |
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
Lium offers 18 GPU models, while Nebius offers 8. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Lium | Nebius | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
B300
6 configs · 1 config
|
$11.90 /GPU/hr On-demand | $9.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 20% cheaper on Nebius |
|
H100
8 configs · 1 config
|
$1.90 /GPU/hr On-demand | $4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 58% cheaper on Lium |
|
B200
3 configs · 1 config
|
$6.10 /GPU/hr On-demand | $8.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 28% cheaper on Lium |
|
RTX PRO 6000
11 configs · 1 config
|
$1.29 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | 28% cheaper on Lium |
|
H200
11 configs · 1 config
|
$3.85 /GPU/hr On-demand | $5.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | 29% cheaper on Lium |
|
L40S
2 configs · 4 configs
|
$0.38 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | 75% cheaper on Lium |
|
RTX 5090
23 configs
|
$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lium only |
|
RTX 4090
17 configs
|
$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lium only |
|
GB300
1 config
|
-- | -- On request | Nebius only |
|
GB200
1 config
|
-- | -- On request | Nebius only |
Lium bills on-demand and spot; Nebius bills on-demand and spot. 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.
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 | Lium | Nebius |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2024 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Netherlands |
| Locations | 23 | 10 |
| Example customers | -- | Revolut, Sword Health, Brave, Voxel51, Recraft |
| Website | lium.io | nebius.com |
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Our data for Lium was last updated on Nov. 8, 2026, and for Nebius on Nov. 7, 2026.