Lambda vs Paperspace
Lambda comes out ahead of Paperspace on 3 of the 6 things that decide this, going by what each company publishes and what independent review sites report. The one that matters for you may be one the leader loses.
The verdict
Lambda takes it, 3–1 on rounds.
On the published figures and the independent review sites, Lambda takes 3 of 6 rounds. Treat that as a starting point and check the current figures on both pages, because prices and plans move.
Choose Lambda if…
- • You want Lambda's edge on the cheapest h100 and the cheapest a100
Choose Paperspace if…
- • You want Paperspace's edge on how cheap you can start and how many people have reviewed it
Round by round
- Round 1The cheapest H100Lambda wins
Lambda wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 2The cheapest A100Lambda winsPaperspace5/10
$1.15 (3-year commitment)
Compute Usage pricing > Dedicated GPUs. Footnote: '$1.15/hour pricing is for a 3-year commitment'.
- $3.09, against $1.99
Source: paperspace.com ↗
Lambda wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 3How cheap you can startPaperspace winsPaperspace8/10
Free GPU notebooks
a free GPU (M4000) for notebooks in private workspaces only
Source: paperspace.com ↗
Paperspace wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 4How many places it runsLambda winsLambda8/10
14 regions
on-demand cloud regions, though not every instance type is in every region
Source: docs.lambda.ai ↗
Paperspace5/103 data centers
Secaucus, Santa Clara and Amsterdam
- 3 data centers, against 14 regions
Source: paperspace.com ↗
Lambda wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 5What it costs to get your data outTiePaperspace7/10
No ingress or egress charges
no charge for bandwidth on Paperspace Machines
Source: docs.digitalocean.com ↗
Nothing to separate them here.
Side by side
- the cheapest GPU on its price list, a Quadro RTX 6000
- A100, PCIe and SXM
- single A100 machine, per hour
- $3.99, against $1.99
- $1.99, against $1.19
- $6.69, against $5.98
- $0.69, against $0.34
- $5.95, against $1.99
- $3.09, against $1.19
- 3 data centers, against 31 regions
- Billed by the hour, against Billed by the second