Lium
vs
Oracle Cloud
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
- 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 | Lium | 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 | -- Not listed | $4.25 /mo 100 GB (Balanced) | |
| 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 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
Lium offers 13 GPU models, while Oracle Cloud offers 15. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Lium | Oracle Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
7 configs · 1 config
|
$1.69 /GPU/hr On-demand | $10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 83% cheaper on Lium |
|
B300
3 configs · 1 config
|
$11.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $15.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 23% cheaper on Lium |
|
B200
3 configs · 1 config
|
$5.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $14.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 61% cheaper on Lium |
|
RTX PRO 6000
6 configs · 1 config
|
$1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand | $4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 76% cheaper on Lium |
|
H200
4 configs · 1 config
|
$3.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | $10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 66% cheaper on Lium |
|
A100
1 config · 2 configs
|
$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.05 /GPU/hr On-demand | 66% cheaper on Lium |
|
L40S
1 config · 1 config
|
$0.38 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 89% cheaper on Lium |
|
RTX 5090
12 configs
|
$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lium only |
|
RTX 4090
5 configs
|
$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lium only |
|
GB200
1 config
|
-- | $16.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
Lium bills on-demand and spot; 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 | Lium | Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Yes |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | -- | Yes |
| GDPR | -- | 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 | Lium | Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2024 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Saint Kitts and Nevis | USA |
| Locations | 23 | 45 |
| Example customers | -- | Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia |
| Website | lium.io | www.oracle.com |
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Our data for Lium was last updated on Sept. 28, 2026, and for Oracle Cloud on Sept. 28, 2026.