Lium vs Vast.ai
As of , Lium and Vast.ai share 1 GPU today, but on none do both list an on-demand rate: at least one side is community capacity or a marketplace floor, compared below and not counted. Not compared today: 11 more shared GPUs, where one side's quote is not confirmed within 48 hours or is a thin market. On the priciest shared card, NVIDIA B200: Lium $6.10 (floor) vs Vast.ai $10.25 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted. On other people's machines - community capacity and marketplace floors, a market of its own - Lium lists the lower rate on 1 of the 1 shared GPUs. Compared apart ↓
On-demand, per GPU-hour
| GPU |  Lium |  Vast.ai | Difference | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 median $6.99 · 35 providers · lowest Beam $4.11 from | $6.10 floor captured Deploy ↗ | $10.25 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
Shared, not compared today
Both providers quoted these GPUs on-demand within the last 7 days, but at least one quote is not confirmed within 48 hours of the newest read (or is a marketplace floor withheld as too thin), and an unconfirmed price never decides which is cheaper. They return to the table above at the next read that confirms them.
- NVIDIA A100 80GB: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA H100 PCIe: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA H100 SXM: Lium: thin market; Vast.ai: thin market
- NVIDIA H200: Vast.ai: thin market
- NVIDIA H200 NVL: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA RTX 4090: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA RTX 5090: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA RTX A6000: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell: Lium: thin market
Community capacity and marketplace floors, per GPU-hour
Capacity on other people's machines, compared on its own: a community rate is a fixed list price for a machine a third party hosts; a marketplace floor is the median of the five cheapest verified offers at the time of reading, and moves with supply. Either can be taken back sooner than an on-demand rate card, and neither enters the verdict above or any median.
| GPU | Lium | Vast.ai | Lower |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 | $6.10 marketplace floor captured | $10.25 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Lium, by $4.15 |
How this is compared
Cloud GPU rental prices of Lium and Vast.ai, compared per GPU-hour on the GPUs both list. Where a provider has several tiers or regions, its cheapest on-demand rate is used and labelled. Community capacity (RunPod Community Cloud) and marketplace floors are shown only where a provider has nothing else, and never decide which is cheaper.
GPU by GPU
- NVIDIA B200: Lium $6.10 (floor) vs Vast.ai $10.25 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
Not compared: GPUs only one of the two lists, reserved/committed tiers, and anything either provider prices only on request. See each provider's page for its full list.
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