What's good about...
Lium
- 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
Runpod
- Deploy affordable GPUs in under a minute
- Scale across 30+ regions worldwide
- SOC 2 Type II certified, 99.9% uptime SLA
- Flexible billing: pay by the second, no commitments
- Multi-node Clusters scale to thousands of GPUs
- Built-in deployments, autoscaling & monitoring
Price comparison
How do Lium's prices compare against Runpod?
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Block Storage
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Free egress allowance
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance
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Lium Pricing Details
Lium bills per minute with no hourly minimum, against a prepaid balance.
GPU Fleet Overview
Same GPU, Both Providers
On-demand price per GPU-hour.
Billing Options
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Available Models
Lium offers 10 GPU models, while Runpod offers 33.
Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Lium and Runpod offer:
Company details
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| Website | lium.io | www.runpod.io |
| Headquarters |
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United States of America
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| Founded | 2024 | 2022 |
| Data Center Locations | 14 | 32 |
| Example Customers | -- | Zillow, CivitAI, Wix, OpenAI, Perplexity, Cursor |
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Our data for Lium was last updated on Sept. 8, 2026, and for Runpod on Sept. 8, 2026.