Which is cheaper, Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 or Akamai Cloud (Linode) Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1?

Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000, at $0.690/GPU-hr against $1.50/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $0.69/hr against $1.50/hr.

Which holds more GPU memory?

Both add up to 24 GB across the instance, at 24 GB and 24 GB a board.

What would a week cost?

$116 for Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 and $252 for Akamai Cloud (Linode) Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1, 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 Quadro RTX 6000: disk 512 GB, no regions published, billed per minute. Akamai Cloud (Linode) Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1: disk 640 GB, no regions published, billed per hour. Egress and tax are extra on both.

Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 vs Akamai Cloud (Linode) Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1.

machine vs machine · prices as of 17 Sept 2026

The same Quadro RTX 6000 at two providers, so the board is identical and everything else is not. Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 takes 2 of 4 rounds against Akamai Cloud (Linode) Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $0.690/GPU-hr against $1.50/GPU-hr.

Lambdawins 2 rounds

1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000

$0.690/GPU-hr

$0.69/hr for the machine · $116 a week

1x Quadro RTX 6000 · 24 GB each · $0.0288/GB-hr

Lambda ↗

Akamai Cloud (Linode)

Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1

$1.50/GPU-hr

$1.50/hr for the machine · $252 a week

1x Quadro RTX 6000 · 24 GB each · $0.0625/GB-hr

Akamai Cloud (Linode) ↗

Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$0.690/GPU-hr

$1.50/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

$0.0288/GB-hr

$0.0625/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

24 GB

GPUs per instance

1x Quadro RTX 6000

vCPU

RAM

46 GB

32 GB

Included storage

512 GB

640 GB

Regions listed

regions not stated

What a run costs on each

An hour of the machine$0.69/hr vs $1.50/hr
A day$17 vs $36
A week$116 vs $252
A week on spotnot published vs not published

Lambda then Akamai Cloud (Linode), at the published rate with no commitment discount

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Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 or Akamai Cloud (Linode) Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1?: Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000, at $0.690/GPU-hr against $1.50/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $0.69/hr against $1.50/hr.
Which holds more GPU memory?: Both add up to 24 GB across the instance, at 24 GB and 24 GB a board.
What would a week cost?: $116 for Lambda 1x NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 and $252 for Akamai Cloud (Linode) Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1, 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 Quadro RTX 6000: disk 512 GB, no regions published, billed per minute. Akamai Cloud (Linode) Dedicated 32GB + RTX6000 GPU x1: disk 640 GB, no regions published, billed per hour. 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.