Lium vs Theta EdgeCloud

Both rent RTX 3090 to 5090 GPUs. Lium rents directly from independent hosts per minute with spot pricing, while Theta EdgeCloud sources managed instances from hyperscaler partners and runs a community edge fleet.

What's good about each

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

Theta EdgeCloud

Datacenter H200, V100 and T4 machines, 1-4 GPUs
Consumer cards from a community fleet, priced per operator
Sharable persistent volumes that survive a stop and restart
Multi-node GPU clusters for distributed training
Inference APIs, dedicated model serving and Jupyter notebooks on the same account

GPUs

Lium offers 12 GPU models, while Theta EdgeCloud offers 26. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Lium	Theta EdgeCloud	Difference
H200 4 configs · 3 configs	$3.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$3.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	8% cheaper on Lium
RTX 5090 9 configs · 1 config	$0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand	23% cheaper on Lium
RTX 3090 3 configs · 2 configs	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.14 /GPU/hr On-demand	11% cheaper on Theta EdgeCloud
H100 7 configs	$1.30 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Lium only
B300 3 configs	$9.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Lium only
B200 3 configs	$5.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Lium only
RTX PRO 6000 4 configs	$1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Lium only
L4 1 config	--	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
V100 2 configs	--	$0.99 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 3060 4 configs	--	$0.05 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only

All 12 GPUs on Lium All 26 GPUs on Theta EdgeCloud

Lium bills on-demand and spot; Theta EdgeCloud bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Lium	Theta EdgeCloud
GPU-powered Servers

Company details

Fact	Lium	Theta EdgeCloud
Founded	2024	2024
Headquarters	Saint Kitts and Nevis	USA
Locations	23	--
Example customers	--	KAIST, NTU Singapore, Houston Rockets
Website	lium.io	www.thetaedgecloud.com

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Our data for Lium was last updated on Sept. 28, 2026, and for Theta EdgeCloud on Sept. 27, 2026.