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 12 GPU models, while Spheron offers 10. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Lium | Spheron | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
B300
3 configs · 4 configs
|
$8.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | $8.68 /GPU/hr Spot | Different terms |
|
H100
2 configs · 20 configs
|
$3.75 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.75 /GPU/hr On-demand | 27% cheaper on Spheron |
|
B200
2 configs · 4 configs
|
$6.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | $11.06 /GPU/hr On-demand | 46% cheaper on Lium |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config · 8 configs
|
$1.70 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.35 /GPU/hr On-demand | 28% cheaper on Lium |
|
H200
1 config · 12 configs
|
$4.07 /GPU/hr Spot | $3.32 /GPU/hr Spot | 18% cheaper on Spheron |
|
A100
1 config · 9 configs
|
$1.18 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.43 /GPU/hr On-demand | 17% cheaper on Lium |
|
RTX 4090
1 config · 2 configs
|
$0.90 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.77 /GPU/hr On-demand | 15% cheaper on Spheron |
|
RTX A6000
1 config · 5 configs
|
$0.42 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.54 /GPU/hr On-demand | 22% cheaper on Lium |
|
RTX 5090
3 configs
|
$0.94 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lium only |
|
L40S
21 configs
|
-- | $1.05 /GPU/hr Spot | Spheron 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 Oct. 19, 2026, and for Spheron on Oct. 19, 2026.