Lium
vs
Vast.ai
Both rent GPUs from independent hosts at live per-machine rates. Lium bills per minute and can be driven by a coding agent, while Vast.ai adds bid-based spot and reserved contracts.
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
- Budget cards to Blackwell, including the RTX PRO 6000 and B200
- On-demand, interruptible and reserved rentals
- SOC 2 Type II certified, with vetted datacenter hosts in Secure Cloud
- REST API, CLI, Python SDK and coding agent plugins
GPUs
Lium offers 10 GPU models. We don't currently list GPU prices for Vast.ai.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
| Service | Lium | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Lium | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Type II, platform only |
| HIPAA | -- | Secure Cloud tier only |
| GDPR | -- | Yes |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
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Our data for Lium was last updated on Oct. 18, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 15, 2026.