Amazon Web Services vs Lium
- GPUs
- 14 16
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.53/hr $0.12/hr
- Price wins
- 0/7 7/7
Lium is cheaper on all 7 GPUs both rent. Lium carries 2 more GPUs.
Hyperscaler that rents GPU and custom accelerator instances on demand, reserved or spot, alongside a full catalogue of managed cloud services.
Best for: Teams already building on AWS services
GPU cloud marketplace where independent data centers and providers list bare GPU machines, rented per second from the web console, CLI, Python SDK or API.
Best for: Low-cost on-demand GPUs and agent-driven rentals
Price by GPU
The 7 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | Amazon Web Services | Lium | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | $14.24/hr | $6.10/hr community | 133% |
| NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB | $17.80/hr | $8.00/hr community | 123% |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $6.88/hr | $1.79/hr community | 283% |
| NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB | $7.91/hr | $3.60/hr community | 120% |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition | $3.36/hr | $1.75/hr community | 92% |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | $1.86/hr | $0.38/hr community | 390% |
| NVIDIA T4 16GB | $0.53/hr | $0.16/hr community | 229% |
Prices last checked: Amazon Web Services 27 Oct 2026, Lium 27 Oct 2026.
Only on one side
Only on Amazon Web Services 7
Only on Lium 9
- NVIDIA H200 NVL 141GB $3.50
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition $1.49
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB $0.90
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB $0.80
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB $0.35
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB $0.65
- NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB $0.41
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB $0.25
- NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB $0.12
Company facts
| Fact | Amazon Web Services | Lium |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  Seattle, WA | Charlestown, Nevis |
| Type | Hyperscaler | Marketplace |
| Founded | 2006 | n/a |
| Regions | n/a | 19 |
| GPUs priced | 14 | 16 |
| Fastest GPU | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB |
| Services | n/a | Bare GPU machines, SSH and Docker access, REST API, CLI, Python SDK, MCP server, Persistent volumes, Backups, Confidential computing nodes, Public nodes feed |
| Pricing models | n/a | On-demand (Secure and Spot tiers), Per-second billing, No minimum commitment |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states it holds, linked to its own statement. Not published means we found no statement, not that the provider fails it. Check the scope with the provider.
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Questions
- What is the difference between Amazon Web Services and Lium?
- Amazon Web Services: Hyperscaler that rents GPU and custom accelerator instances on demand, reserved or spot, alongside a full catalogue of managed cloud services. Lium: GPU cloud marketplace where independent data centers and providers list bare GPU machines, rented per second from the web console, CLI, Python SDK or API.
- Is Amazon Web Services cheaper than Lium?
- Lium is cheaper on all 7 GPUs both rent. Lium carries 2 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB cost on Amazon Web Services and Lium?
- Amazon Web Services charges $14.24 per GPU-hour and Lium charges $6.10 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both Amazon Web Services and Lium?
- 7 GPUs, including NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB, NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition, NVIDIA L40S 48GB.
- How are these prices compared?
- Each figure is the cheapest live rate per GPU-hour for that GPU. We use on-demand pricing where a provider sells it and fall back to community or reserved terms, labelled, where that is all they sell. Spot capacity is left out because it can be reclaimed. Rates are refreshed by our daily ingest.
How we define a live price: methodology.
