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Lambda vs. VOLTAGE PARK | AI CLOUD Comparison
Lambda vs Voltage Park
Metal When it Matters, Virtual When it Doesn’t
Get full control of bare metal and VMs for higher performance and deployment flexibility others can’t offer.
Infrastructure
Deployment & Access
Cost & Flexibility
Enterprise Support
Voltage Park
Infrastructure
- Own and operate 24,000+ NVIDIA H100s (80GB SXM5)
- Choose from Ethernet or 3.2 Tb/s InfiniBand interconnect
- Bare-metal deployment, no virtualization
- Cluster scale from tens to thousands of GPUs
- Own data center locations across the U.S.
Deployment & Access
- Bare-metal access for full performance
- Simplified cluster deployment with pre-configured environments
- Slurm and Kubernetes support
- Compatible with PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, DeepSpeed
Cost & Flexibility
- Stable, competitive on-demand pricing (starts at $1.99/hr)
- Discounted multi-month blocks
- Options for 3-month, 6-month, or annual terms
- Available. No bidding wars for capacity
- Research credits application program
Enterprise Support
- Supports AI labs and enterprises (e.g., Caltech, Imbue, Cursor)
- 24/7/365 support for dedicated clusters
- ML framework compatibility (PyTorch, JAX, TF)
- U.S.-based compute with global experts on standby and SLA-backed access
Lambda
Infrastructure
- Compute is not owned
- NVIDIA H100 (80GB SXM5)
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- Only offers 3.2 Tbit/s InfiniBand with NVLink
- 1800 GiB RAM
- Scale from 16 to 1,536 GPUs
Deployment & Access
- Self-service portal
- Managed Kubernetes, Preinstalled Kubernetes & Slurm public cloud environments
- Access open-source models through public and private inference endpoints
Cost & Flexibility
- On-demand pricing for H100 starts at $2.69 per GPU hour
- On-demand pricing for HGX B200 starts at $3.79 per GPU hour
- Pay-as-you-go or reserved models available
- Research grant application program
Enterprise Support
- Docs for public, private cloud, hardware and educational tutorials
- 1-3 year contracts between 1K and 10K GPUs, supported by InfiniBand connectivity
- Partnership with NVIDIA
On-Demand, No Nonsense
Our pay-as-you-go model provides precise and predictable billing, accurate down to the microsecond.
Unbeatable Pricing
Voltage Park offers NVIDIA H100s at just $1.99 per hour, which is lower than Lambda's effective rate of ~$2.69 per hour.
Customer Service
24/7/365 support that rises with the sun and stays with you through every step of the way.
The end-to-end solution that minimizes time to market with team accessibility, standardization, and automation for the AI development cycle.
For Infrastructure:
Ease of use, without compromise
Pre-configured, high-performance GPU environments lets teams launch in hours, not days.
For Accessibility:
Unrestricted access elite compute
Immediate access to the same world-class AI compute as the biggest players in the field.
For Performance & Cost Efficiency:
Built for experimentation
Ultra-fast connectivity and transparent pricing for quick iteration without runaway costs.
For Transformational Value:
Improved time-to-market
Build upon a foundational layer to quickly use AI to accelerate their most important outcomes.
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NVIDIA HGX H100
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4× faster performance
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Cloud DGX GB200
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NVIDIA HGX B300
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NVIDIA HGX GB300
