Daytona vs Lium
- GPUs
- 8 16
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.99/hr $0.12/hr
- Price wins
- 1/7 6/7
- Regions
- 5 19
Lium is cheaper on 6 of the 7 GPUs both rent, Daytona on 1. Lium carries 8 more GPUs.
Sells GPU sandboxes for inference, fine-tuning and agent code, billed per second on demand or preemptible with no minimum.
Best for: Agent sandboxes and short GPU jobs
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 | Daytona | Lium | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | $6.25/hr | $6.10/hr community | 2% |
| NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB | $7.10/hr | $8.00/hr community | 13% |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.95/hr | $1.79/hr community | 120% |
| NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB | $4.54/hr | $3.60/hr community | 26% |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition | $3.03/hr | $1.49/hr community | 103% |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB | $1.29/hr | $0.90/hr community | 43% |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB | $0.99/hr | $0.65/hr community | 52% |
Prices last checked: Daytona 27 Oct 2026, Lium 27 Oct 2026.
Only on one side
Only on Daytona 1
Company facts
| Fact | Daytona | Lium |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  New York, United States | Charlestown, Nevis |
| Type | GPU cloud | Marketplace |
| Founded | 2023 | n/a |
| Regions | 5 | 19 |
| GPUs priced | 8 | 16 |
| Fastest GPU | AMD Instinct MI355X OAM | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB |
| Services | GPU sandboxes, LLM inference and serving, fine-tuning and training, model evaluations, AI agent code execution, snapshots, persistent volumes, REST API, CLI, SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go and Java | 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 | On-demand, Spot (preemptible), Reserved (enterprise, on request), per-second billing, no minimum commitment | 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.
| Framework | Daytona | Lium |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type II | Yes | Not published |
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Questions
- What is the difference between Daytona and Lium?
- Daytona: Sells GPU sandboxes for inference, fine-tuning and agent code, billed per second on demand or preemptible with no minimum. 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 Daytona cheaper than Lium?
- Lium is cheaper on 6 of the 7 GPUs both rent, Daytona on 1. Lium carries 8 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB cost on Daytona and Lium?
- Daytona charges $6.25 per GPU-hour and Lium charges $6.10 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both Daytona 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 Workstation Edition, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB.
- 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.
