GPU cloud · 7 GPU models tracked
Lightning AI
$0.55–$5.45per GPU-hour, the cheapest row to the dearest
Rents cloud development machines ("Studios") billed by the second, paid in its own credits at one dollar each. The rates listed are for machines with a single GPU, which its free tier rents without a subscription; machines with more GPUs need a paid monthly plan and are not listed, and interruptible machines are priced as a range and are not listed either. The page says prices vary; they are read as printed each hour.
As of , Lightning AI lists 7 GPU models we track, from $0.55 per GPU-hour (NVIDIA T4, on-demand) to $5.45 (NVIDIA H100 80GB (form factor not stated), on-demand).
| Website | lightning.ai/ |
|---|---|
| Pricing page | lightning.ai/pricing/ |
| Regions and tiers | No region or tier named in the rates below: one global rate card |
| Models tracked | 7 |
Price by GPU
As of , per GPU-hour: Lightning AI’s on-demand rate for each card it lists, a cheaper market it also sells, and where the on-demand rate stands among the providers we track.
| GPU | Lightning AI on-demand, per GPU-hour | Against the market (median rate card) |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H100 80GB (form factor not stated) | $5.45 captured Deploy ↗ | 38% above the median $3.95 · 27 providers 21 of 27 list lower · lowest FlexAI $2.10 GPU only · compare |
| NVIDIA H200 | $4.50 captured Deploy ↗ | 1% below the median $4.54 · 56 providers 25 of 56 list lower · lowest Beam $2.09 from · compare |
| NVIDIA L40S | $3.54 captured Deploy ↗ | 132% above the median $1.52 · 42 providers 41 of 42 list lower · lowest CloudRift $0.63 · compare |
| NVIDIA A100 40GB | $2.19 captured Deploy ↗ | 10% above the median $1.98 · 22 providers 15 of 22 list lower · lowest CloudGPU $0.63 · compare |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.85 captured Deploy ↗ | 7% below the median $1.99 · 63 providers 30 of 63 list lower · lowest CloudRift $1.05 · compare |
| NVIDIA L4 | $0.79 captured Deploy ↗ | 1% below the median $0.80 · 24 providers 10 of 24 list lower · lowest Hikube $0.27 GPU only · compare |
| NVIDIA T4 | $0.55 captured Deploy ↗ | 4% below the median $0.57 · 18 providers 7 of 18 list lower · lowest immers.cloud $0.24 · compare |
The same, in words
- Lightning AI lists the NVIDIA H100 80GB (form factor not stated) from $5.45 per GPU-hour on-demand. The on-demand rate is unchanged since first read, Oct 26, 2026. Against the market: 38% above the median rate card ($3.95 across 27 providers); 21 of the 27 providers we track list a lower on-demand rate, the lowest FlexAI at $2.10 (FlexAI’s rates, Lightning AI vs FlexAI).
- Lightning AI lists the NVIDIA H200 from $4.50 per GPU-hour on-demand. The on-demand rate is unchanged since first read, Oct 26, 2026. Against the market: 1% below the median rate card ($4.54 across 56 providers); 25 of the 56 providers we track list a lower on-demand rate, the lowest Beam at $2.09 (Beam’s rates, Lightning AI vs Beam).
- Lightning AI lists the NVIDIA L40S from $3.54 per GPU-hour on-demand. The on-demand rate is unchanged since first read, Oct 26, 2026. Against the market: 132% above the median rate card ($1.52 across 42 providers); 41 of the 42 providers we track list a lower on-demand rate, the lowest CloudRift at $0.63 (CloudRift’s rates, Lightning AI vs CloudRift).
- Lightning AI lists the NVIDIA A100 40GB from $2.19 per GPU-hour on-demand. The on-demand rate is unchanged since first read, Oct 26, 2026. Against the market: 10% above the median rate card ($1.98 across 22 providers); 15 of the 22 providers we track list a lower on-demand rate, the lowest CloudGPU at $0.63 (CloudGPU’s rates, Lightning AI vs CloudGPU).
- Lightning AI lists the NVIDIA A100 80GB from $1.85 per GPU-hour on-demand. The on-demand rate is unchanged since first read, Oct 26, 2026. Against the market: 7% below the median rate card ($1.99 across 63 providers); 30 of the 63 providers we track list a lower on-demand rate, the lowest CloudRift at $1.05 (CloudRift’s rates, Lightning AI vs CloudRift).
- Lightning AI lists the NVIDIA L4 from $0.79 per GPU-hour on-demand. The on-demand rate is unchanged since first read, Oct 26, 2026. Against the market: 1% below the median rate card ($0.80 across 24 providers); 10 of the 24 providers we track list a lower on-demand rate, the lowest Hikube at $0.27 (Hikube’s rates, Lightning AI vs Hikube).
- Lightning AI lists the NVIDIA T4 from $0.55 per GPU-hour on-demand. The on-demand rate is unchanged since first read, Oct 26, 2026. Against the market: 4% below the median rate card ($0.57 across 18 providers); 7 of the 18 providers we track list a lower on-demand rate, the lowest immers.cloud at $0.24 (immers.cloud’s rates, Lightning AI vs immers.cloud).
All listed prices
One table per price type, never mixed. Every rate normalized to one GPU for one hour; a price opens the page it was read from, and 7d marks a rate that moved in the past seven days. The day each figure was first listed is in this page’s data, below.
On-demand
| GPU · what is sold | $ / GPU-hour | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA T4 | $0.55 | captured | Deploy ↗ |
| NVIDIA L4 | $0.79 | captured | Deploy ↗ |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.85 | captured | Deploy ↗ |
| NVIDIA A100 40GB | $2.19 | captured | Deploy ↗ |
| NVIDIA L40S | $3.54 | captured | Deploy ↗ |
| NVIDIA H200 | $4.50 | captured | Deploy ↗ |
| NVIDIA H100 80GB (form factor not stated) | $5.45 | captured | Deploy ↗ |
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Compare Lightning AI with
Every provider that lists at least two of the same GPUs on-demand, most shared GPUs first; each opens the side-by-side page.
- Cerebrium 7 shared GPUs
- E2E Networks 7 shared GPUs
- Amazon Web Services 6 shared GPUs
- EmpirioLabs 6 shared GPUs
- Hugging Face 6 shared GPUs
- Modal 6 shared GPUs
- Sesterce 6 shared GPUs
- Google Cloud 5 shared GPUs
- Hikube 5 shared GPUs
- Koyeb 5 shared GPUs
- Northflank 5 shared GPUs
- RunPod 5 shared GPUs
- Vast.ai 5 shared GPUs
- Baseten 4 shared GPUs
- Civo 4 shared GPUs
- Gcore 4 shared GPUs
- GPU.ai 4 shared GPUs
- immers.cloud 4 shared GPUs
- Jarvislabs 4 shared GPUs
- Lyceum 4 shared GPUs
- Microsoft Azure 4 shared GPUs
- Oracle Cloud (OCI) 4 shared GPUs
- OVHcloud 4 shared GPUs
- Replicate 4 shared GPUs
- Seeweb 4 shared GPUs
- Verda 4 shared GPUs
- airgpu 3 shared GPUs
- Bamboozle Web Services 3 shared GPUs
- Beam 3 shared GPUs
- Cloud.ru Evolution 3 shared GPUs
- CoreWeave 3 shared GPUs
- Crusoe 3 shared GPUs
- Deep Infra 3 shared GPUs
- Geodd 3 shared GPUs
- HexGrid 3 shared GPUs
- Infomaniak 3 shared GPUs
- Lium 3 shared GPUs
- Massed Compute 3 shared GPUs
- Neysa 3 shared GPUs
- Paperspace 3 shared GPUs
- RunComfy 3 shared GPUs
- Runware 3 shared GPUs
- Tata Communications 3 shared GPUs
- Airon 2 shared GPUs
- Barrack AI 2 shared GPUs
- centron 2 shared GPUs
- CloudGPU 2 shared GPUs
- CloudRift 2 shared GPUs
- Cudo Compute 2 shared GPUs
- Daytona 2 shared GPUs
- Denvr Dataworks 2 shared GPUs
- fal 2 shared GPUs
- Fireworks AI 2 shared GPUs
- FlexAI 2 shared GPUs
- GMI Cloud 2 shared GPUs
- Hostinger 2 shared GPUs
- Hyperstack 2 shared GPUs
- Inferless 2 shared GPUs
- Krutrim Cloud 2 shared GPUs
- Lambda 2 shared GPUs
- Leafcloud 2 shared GPUs
- MimicPC 2 shared GPUs
- Nebius 2 shared GPUs
- packet.ai 2 shared GPUs
- Phala Cloud 2 shared GPUs
- QuantaCloud 2 shared GPUs
- Scaleway 2 shared GPUs
- Selectel 2 shared GPUs
- Servercore 2 shared GPUs
- STACKIT 2 shared GPUs
- SynpixCloud 2 shared GPUs
- VESSL AI 2 shared GPUs
- Yandex Cloud 2 shared GPUs
Data updated: