Lambda 1x NVIDIA H100 PCIe vs RunPod H100 PCIe · Community Cloud
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The same H100 PCIe at two providers, so the board is identical and everything else is not. RunPod H100 PCIe · Community Cloud takes 2 of 4 rounds against Lambda 1x NVIDIA H100 PCIe. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $1.99/GPU-hr against $3.29/GPU-hr.
Lambda1x NVIDIA H100 PCIe
1x H100 PCIe · 80 GB · 4.1¢/GB-hr
$3.29/GPU-hr$3.29/hr for the machine · $553 a week
RunPodWins 2 roundsH100 PCIe · Community Cloud
1x H100 PCIe · 80 GB · 2.5¢/GB-hr
$1.99/GPU-hr$1.99/hr for the machine · $334 a weekMarketplace
Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)
$3.29/GPU-hr
$1.99/GPU-hr
Interruptible rate (lower wins)
not published
not published
Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)
4.1¢/GB-hr
2.5¢/GB-hr
VRAM per GPU
80 GB
80 GB
GPUs per instance
1x H100 PCIe
1x H100 PCIe
vCPU
26
16
RAM
225 GB
188 GB
Included storage
1 TB
none · volumes extra
Regions listed
none listed
none listed
What a run costs on each
- An hour of the machine$3.29/hr vs $1.99/hr
- A day$79 vs $48
- A week$553 vs $334
- A week on spotno spot price vs no spot price
Lambda, then RunPod, at the published rate with no commitment discount.
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Add a third or fourth machine, or change the weighting, in the tool.
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Lambda 1x NVIDIA H100 PCIe or RunPod H100 PCIe · Community Cloud?
- RunPod H100 PCIe · Community Cloud, at $1.99/GPU-hr against $3.29/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 1 Nov 2026. On the whole machine that is $1.99/hr against $3.29/hr.
- Which holds more GPU memory?
- Both add up to 80 GB across the instance, at 80 GB and 80 GB a board.
- What would a week cost?
- $553 for Lambda 1x NVIDIA H100 PCIe and $334 for RunPod H100 PCIe · Community Cloud, 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 H100 PCIe: disk 1 TB, no regions published, billed per minute. RunPod H100 PCIe · Community Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Egress and tax are extra on both.
Every rate is the on-demand price for one GPU for one hour, read 1 Nov 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.
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