CoreWeave Cloud vs Lambda GPU Cloud

In short

• Both: API, Runs models for you
• Only CoreWeave Cloud states: Builds agents and workflows, Traces and evaluates
• Only Lambda GPU Cloud states: Command line

CoreWeave Cloud

CoreWeave Cloud provides GPU and CPU compute, storage, networking, and tools for training, deploying, and operating AI workloads.

Plans

NVIDIA GB300 NVL72

Price on request

• On-demand GPU instances

NVIDIA GB200 NVL72

• $42.00 / Hour (North America On-Demand)
• $10.50 / Hour (North America Inference Single CPU Price)
• $42.00 / Hour (Europe On-Demand)

• On-demand GPU instances

NVIDIA HGX B300

• $35.84 / Hour (North America Spot)
• $36.70 / Hour (Europe Spot)

• On-demand GPU instances

NVIDIA HGX B200

• $68.80 / Hour (North America On-Demand)
• $34.11 / Hour (North America Spot)
• $8.60 / Hour (North America Inference Single CPU Price)
• $68.80 / Hour (Europe On-Demand)
• $34.87 / Hour (Europe Spot)

• On-demand GPU instances

NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition (High Memory)

• $20.00 / Hour (North America On-Demand)
• $11.09 / Hour (North America Spot)
• $2.50 / Hour (North America Inference Single CPU Price)
• $20.00 / Hour (Europe On-Demand)
• $11.01 / Hour (Europe Spot)

• On-demand GPU instances

NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition (Standard Memor

• $9.56 / Hour (North America Spot)
• $9.56 / Hour (Europe Spot)

• On-demand GPU instances

NVIDIA GH200

• $6.50 / Hour (North America On-Demand)
• $6.50 / Hour (North America Inference Single CPU Price)
• $6.50 / Hour (Europe On-Demand)

• On-demand GPU instances

NVIDIA HGX H100

• $49.24 / Hour (North America On-Demand)
• $19.71 / Hour (North America Spot)
• $6.16 / Hour (North America Inference Single CPU Price)
• $49.24 / Hour (Europe On-Demand)
• $19.51 / Hour (Europe Spot)

• On-demand GPU instances

NVIDIA L40

• $10.00 / Hour (North America On-Demand)
• $6.27 / Hour (North America Spot)
• $1.25 / Hour (North America Inference Single CPU Price)
• $10.00 / Hour (Europe On-Demand)

• On-demand GPU instances

NVIDIA HGX H200

• $50.44 / Hour (North America On-Demand)
• $20.93 / Hour (North America Spot)
• $6.31 / Hour (North America Inference Single CPU Price)
• $50.44 / Hour (Europe On-Demand)
• $20.64 / Hour (Europe Spot)

• On-demand GPU instances

Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

• API — “This is only possible because of CoreWeave’s Kubernetes API and range of high-performance compute and storage options.” source
• Runs models for you — “Run low-latency AI inference with high-performance compute” source
• Builds agents and workflows — “CoreWeave helps teams build, evaluate, deploy, and monitor models and agents—speeding time to production with experiment tracking, governance and guardrails, and workflow integrations.” source
• Traces and evaluates — “From bare metal to token, CoreWeave provides the constant observability essential to fast progress—plus built-in agent development and AIOps tools that evaluate, monitor, and iterate agentic AI systems during development and production.” source

Security

• GDPR — “Yes. CoreWeave’s privacy and security program is designed to support customer compliance with applicable data protection regulations, including GDPR and CCPA, where relevant.” source
• Data kept in the EU — “CoreWeave operates data centers across multiple geographic regions, including the United States and Europe, to support customer requirements for performance, availability, and data residency.” source

Latest updates

• 2026-09-24 New Observability

  Mission Control Agent is now available in public preview; Mission Control MCP is now generally available.

• 2026-09-23 Update Platform

  GB200 NVL72-powered instances, GB300 NVL72 Quantum-X InfiniBand, and GB300 NVL72 Spectrum-X RoCE: New default 595 → 580.

• 2026-09-16 Update CKS

  CKS supports v1.37; new clusters use v1.37; v1.34 deprecated; Events retained 30 minutes; Cilium LB IPAM allocates IP addresses.

Lambda GPU Cloud

Lambda GPU Cloud provides on-demand GPU instances, connected GPU clusters, and dedicated superclusters for AI training and inference.

Plans

NVIDIA HGX B200 1-Click Cluster — 16 GPUs

• $9.86 per GPU/hr

• Duration: 2 weeks – 1 year
• 16 GPUs

NVIDIA HGX B200 1-Click Cluster — 64 GPUs

• $9.36 per GPU/hr

• Duration: 2 weeks – 1 year
• 64 GPUs

NVIDIA HGX B200 1-Click Cluster — 256+ GPUs

• $8.87 per GPU/hr

• Duration: 2 weeks – 1 year
• 256+ GPUs

NVIDIA H100 1-Click Cluster — 16 GPUs

• $6.16 per GPU/hr

• Duration: 2 weeks – 1 year
• 16 GPUs

NVIDIA H100 1-Click Cluster — 64 GPUs

• $5.85 per GPU/hr

• Duration: 2 weeks – 1 year
• 64 GPUs

NVIDIA H100 1-Click Cluster — 256 GPUs

• $5.54 per GPU/hr

• Duration: 2 weeks – 1 year
• 256 GPUs

NVIDIA B200 SXM6 instance — 8x

• $6.69 per GPU/hr

• 180 GB VRAM/GPU
• 208 vCPUs
• 2900 GiB RAM
• 22 TiB SSD storage
• 8x

NVIDIA H100 SXM instance — 8x

• $3.99 per GPU/hr

• 80 GB VRAM/GPU
• 208 vCPUs
• 1800 GiB RAM
• 22 TiB SSD storage
• 8x

Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

• Command line — “Use UI, API, or CLI” source
• API — “Automate with the Lambda Cloud API to create, stop, and restart instances from your CLI, CI/CD, or orchestration scripts.” source
• Runs models for you — “Train, fine-tune, and serve models on 1 to 8 NVIDIA GPU instances” source

Security

• SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type 2” source
• SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Type 2” source
• ISO 27001 — “ISO/IEC 27001:2022” source