Which is cheaper, Lambda 1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe or Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM?

Neither: both rent at $1.99/GPU-hr, read on 17 Sept 2026.

Which holds more GPU memory?

Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM, at 320 GB across the instance against 40 GB. Per board it is 40 GB against 40 GB.

What would a week cost?

$334 for Lambda 1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe and $2,675 for Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM, at 168 hours of the whole machine at its published rate, with no commitment discount. Neither publishes an interruptible rate.

What does the hourly price leave out?

Lambda 1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe: disk 512 GB, no regions published, billed per minute. Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM: disk 5.8 TB, no regions published, billed per minute. Egress and tax are extra on both.

Lambda 1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe vs Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM.

machine vs machine · prices as of 17 Sept 2026

Two machines from Lambda's own catalogue, the nearest to each other on price. Lambda 1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe and Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM split the 4 rounds this table counts: the on-demand rate, the interruptible rate, the memory on a board and what a gigabyte of that memory costs. The weighting you pick decides the rest.

Lambda

1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe

$1.99/GPU-hr

$1.99/hr for the machine · $334 a week

1x A100 40GB PCIe · 40 GB each · $0.0498/GB-hr

Lambda ↗

Lambda

8x NVIDIA A100 SXM

$1.99/GPU-hr

$15.92/hr for the machine · $2,675 a week

8x A100 40GB SXM · 40 GB each · $0.0498/GB-hr

Lambda ↗

Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$1.99/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

$0.0498/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

40 GB

GPUs per instance

1x A100 40GB PCIe

8x A100 40GB SXM

vCPU

124

RAM

225 GB

1800 GB

Included storage

512 GB

5.8 TB

Regions listed

regions not stated

What a run costs on each

An hour of the machine$1.99/hr vs $15.92/hr
A day$48 vs $382
A week$334 vs $2,675
A week on spotnot published vs not published

Lambda then Lambda, at the published rate with no commitment discount

Go further

open in the compare tool →every price for the A100 40GB SXM

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Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Lambda 1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe or Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM?: Neither: both rent at $1.99/GPU-hr, read on 17 Sept 2026.
Which holds more GPU memory?: Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM, at 320 GB across the instance against 40 GB. Per board it is 40 GB against 40 GB.
What would a week cost?: $334 for Lambda 1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe and $2,675 for Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM, at 168 hours of the whole machine at its published rate, with no commitment discount. Neither publishes an interruptible rate.
What does the hourly price leave out?: Lambda 1x NVIDIA A100 PCIe: disk 512 GB, no regions published, billed per minute. Lambda 8x NVIDIA A100 SXM: disk 5.8 TB, no regions published, billed per minute. Egress and tax are extra on both.

Every rate is the on-demand price for one GPU for one hour, read 17 Sept 2026 from each provider's own page, so a node of eight is compared at what one of its GPUs costs. Storage, egress and tax are extra unless a row says otherwise, and reserved or committed rates are not indexed. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.