Lium
vs
Spheron
Both rent A100 to H200 GPUs from other people's hardware with spot pricing. Lium draws on a permissionless host network and publishes a reliability score per host, while Spheron sources from vetted, certified datacenter partners.
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
- Aggregates GPU supply from five data center partners
- Blackwell B200 and B300 nodes offered on spot
- Partner facilities certified to ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA
- Regions in the US, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East
GPUs
Lium offers 14 GPU models, while Spheron offers 10. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Lium | Spheron | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
7 configs · 12 configs
|
$1.30 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.64 /GPU/hr On-demand | 51% cheaper on Lium |
|
B300
5 configs · 2 configs
|
$8.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $5.81 /GPU/hr Spot | Different terms |
|
B200
3 configs · 4 configs
|
$5.35 /GPU/hr On-demand | $9.30 /GPU/hr On-demand | 42% cheaper on Lium |
|
RTX PRO 6000
7 configs · 4 configs
|
$1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.35 /GPU/hr On-demand | 53% cheaper on Lium |
|
H200
1 config · 4 configs
|
$3.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | $5.86 /GPU/hr On-demand | 49% cheaper on Lium |
|
A100
1 config · 6 configs
|
$1.06 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.43 /GPU/hr On-demand | 26% cheaper on Lium |
|
RTX 4090
10 configs · 2 configs
|
$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.77 /GPU/hr On-demand | 54% cheaper on Lium |
|
L40S
1 config · 18 configs
|
$0.38 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.11 /GPU/hr On-demand | 82% cheaper on Lium |
|
RTX A6000
1 config · 4 configs
|
$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand | 21% cheaper on Lium |
|
RTX 5090
12 configs
|
$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lium only |
Lium bills on-demand and spot; Spheron bills on-demand and spot. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
| Service | Lium | Spheron |
|---|---|---|
| GPU-powered Servers |
Company details
| Fact | Lium | Spheron |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2024 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | Saint Kitts and Nevis | Singapore |
| Locations | 23 | -- |
| Example customers | -- | Prem AI, Wafer, Compute Desk, Baseten, Stanford University, UC Berkeley |
| Website | lium.io | www.spheron.ai |
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Our data for Lium was last updated on Sept. 29, 2026, and for Spheron on Sept. 29, 2026.