Lium vs Vast.ai
Both resell capacity from independent hosts at live per-machine rates. Vast.ai runs a larger fleet with bid-based spot and reserved contracts, while Lium bills per minute and can be driven by a coding agent through its CLI and agent skill.
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
Vast.ai
- Large pool of over 20,000 GPUs
- Over 68 GPU types across 40+ data centers
- Enterprise-grade security with SOC2 certification
- Pre-built templates including PyTorch, CUDA, and TensorFlow
Price comparison
Lium Pricing
Lium bills per minute with no hourly minimum, against a prepaid balance.
Vast.ai Pricing
Vast.ai operates as a global marketplace where pricing is billed per second and broken into three components:
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Active rental cost for the GPU, charged only when an instance is running.
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Storage cost for allocated disk space, which applies as long as the instance exists (even when stopped).
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Bandwidth costs for data transfer.
GPU Fleet Overview
Same GPU, Both Providers
On-demand price per GPU-hour.
Billing Options
Lium
Vast.ai
Available Models
Lium offers 10 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 63.
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 Vast.ai offer:
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Lium
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Vast.ai
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| GPU-powered Servers |
Company details
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Our data for Lium was last updated on Sept. 8, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 8, 2026.