Lium vs RunPod
As of , Lium and RunPod share 8 GPUs today, but on none do both list an on-demand rate: at least one side is community capacity or a marketplace floor, compared below and not counted. Not compared today: 8 more shared GPUs, where one side's quote is not confirmed within 48 hours or is a thin market. On the priciest shared card, NVIDIA H200: Lium $4.79 (floor) vs RunPod $5.29 (Secure Cloud) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted. On other people's machines - community capacity and marketplace floors, a market of its own - RunPod lists the lower rate on 7 of the 8 shared GPUs. Compared apart ↓
On-demand, per GPU-hour
| GPU |  Lium |  RunPod | Difference | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H200 median $4.56 · 56 providers · lowest Dataoorts $2.29 | $4.79 floor captured Deploy ↗ | $5.29 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell median $2.20 · 42 providers · lowest Hostinger $0.65 from | $1.79 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | $2.49 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada median $1.03 · 12 providers · lowest GPU.ai $0.65 from | $0.91 floor captured Deploy ↗ | $0.99 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 median $0.79 · 23 providers · lowest OpenRelay $0.50 | $0.75 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | $1.19 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 median $0.48 · 17 providers · lowest OpenRelay $0.35 | $0.45 floor captured Deploy ↗ | $0.89 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 median $0.59 · 21 providers · lowest Thunder Compute $0.35 | $0.42 floor captured Deploy ↗ | $0.59 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA L40S median $1.42 · 40 providers · lowest CloudRift $0.63 | $0.38 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | $1.09 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 median $0.42 · 10 providers · lowest OpenRelay $0.18 | $0.28 floor captured Deploy ↗ | $0.50 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
Shared, not compared today
Both providers quoted these GPUs on-demand within the last 7 days, but at least one quote is not confirmed within 48 hours of the newest read (or is a marketplace floor withheld as too thin), and an unconfirmed price never decides which is cheaper. They return to the table above at the next read that confirms them.
- NVIDIA A100 80GB: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA B200: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA B300: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA H100 PCIe: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA H100 SXM: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA H200 NVL: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA L40: Lium: thin market
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell: Lium: thin market
Community capacity and marketplace floors, per GPU-hour
Capacity on other people's machines, compared on its own: a community rate is a fixed list price for a machine a third party hosts; a marketplace floor is the median of the five cheapest verified offers at the time of reading, and moves with supply. Either can be taken back sooner than an on-demand rate card, and neither enters the verdict above or any median.
| GPU | Lium | RunPod | Lower |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H200 | $4.79 marketplace floor captured | $3.59 community · Community Cloud captured | RunPod, by $1.20 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $1.79 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | $1.69 community · Community Cloud captured | RunPod, by $0.10 |
| NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada | $0.91 marketplace floor captured | $0.74 community · Community Cloud captured | RunPod, by $0.17 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.75 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | $0.69 community · Community Cloud captured | RunPod, by $0.06 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.45 marketplace floor captured | $0.34 community · Community Cloud captured | RunPod, by $0.11 |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 | $0.42 marketplace floor captured | $0.33 community · Community Cloud captured | RunPod, by $0.09 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.38 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | $0.79 community · Community Cloud captured | Lium, by $0.41 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | $0.28 marketplace floor captured | $0.22 community · Community Cloud captured | RunPod, by $0.06 |
How this is compared
Cloud GPU rental prices of Lium and RunPod, compared per GPU-hour on the GPUs both list. Where a provider has several tiers or regions, its cheapest on-demand rate is used and labelled. Community capacity (RunPod Community Cloud) and marketplace floors are shown only where a provider has nothing else, and never decide which is cheaper.
GPU by GPU
- NVIDIA H200: Lium $4.79 (floor) vs RunPod $5.29 (Secure Cloud) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell: Lium $1.79 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) vs RunPod $2.49 (Secure Cloud) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada: Lium $0.91 (floor) vs RunPod $0.99 (Secure Cloud) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 5090: Lium $0.75 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) vs RunPod $1.19 (Secure Cloud) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 4090: Lium $0.45 (floor) vs RunPod $0.89 (Secure Cloud) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX A6000: Lium $0.42 (floor) vs RunPod $0.59 (Secure Cloud) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA L40S: Lium $0.38 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) vs RunPod $1.09 (Secure Cloud) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090: Lium $0.28 (floor) vs RunPod $0.50 (Secure Cloud) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
Not compared: GPUs only one of the two lists, reserved/committed tiers, and anything either provider prices only on request. See each provider's page for its full list.
Data updated: