What is the difference between Lambda Labs and Sesterce?

Lambda Labs and Sesterce are both cloud GPU providers offering different pricing models, features, and GPU availability. Use our comparison tool to see real-time pricing and feature differences.

Which is cheaper: Lambda Labs or Sesterce?

Pricing varies by GPU model and usage requirements. Check our real-time comparison table to find the best deals for your specific needs.

Can I switch between Lambda Labs and Sesterce?

Yes, both providers offer flexible cloud GPU services. However, consider factors like data transfer costs, setup time, and specific features when switching between providers.

How many GPU models are available for comparison?

We track pricing for 22 different GPU models across both Lambda Labs and Sesterce, with 0 models available from both providers.

Lambda Labs vs Sesterce

Compare GPU pricing between Lambda Labs and Sesterce. Find the best rates for AI training, inference, and ML workloads.

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

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Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $0.84/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 22Both available: 5Lambda Labs: 9Sesterce: 18

Showing 15 of 22 GPUs

Last updated: 9/29/2026, 2:44:04 AM

GPU Model ↑	Lambda Labs Price	Sesterce Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Lambda LabsSesterce	$1.29/hr★ Best	$1.42/hr	↓$0.13(9.1%)	Lambda Labs API Sesterce API
A10 24GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.29/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce $1.42/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 Price Difference:↓$0.13(9.1%) Lambda Labs API Sesterce API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$1.99/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.99/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda LabsSesterce	$1.99/hr	$1.49/hr★ Best 2x GPU	↑+$0.50(+34.0%)	Lambda Labs API Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.99/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 Sesterce $1.49/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.50(+34.0%) Lambda Labs API Sesterce API
A16 64GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.56/hr★ Best 2x GPU	—	Sesterce API
A16 64GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.56/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.05/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.05/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
B200 180GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$6.69/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
B200 180GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $6.69/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$2.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $2.29/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
H100 PCIe 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$3.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
H100 PCIe 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $3.29/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda LabsSesterce	$3.99/hr 8x GPU	$2.75/hr★ Best	↑+$1.24(+45.1%)	Lambda Labs API Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $3.99/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 9/28/2026 Sesterce $2.75/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$1.24(+45.1%) Lambda Labs API Sesterce API
H200 141GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$4.40/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $4.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.04/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.04/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 9/27/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 4000 Ada 20GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.87/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX 4000 Ada 20GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.87/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.44/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.44/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API

A10 24GB VRAM • Lambda LabsSesterce	$1.29/hr★ Best	$1.42/hr	↓$0.13(9.1%)	Lambda Labs API Sesterce API
A10 24GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.29/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce $1.42/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 Price Difference:↓$0.13(9.1%) Lambda Labs API Sesterce API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$1.99/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.99/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda LabsSesterce	$1.99/hr	$1.49/hr★ Best 2x GPU	↑+$0.50(+34.0%)	Lambda Labs API Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.99/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 Sesterce $1.49/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.50(+34.0%) Lambda Labs API Sesterce API
A16 64GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.56/hr★ Best 2x GPU	—	Sesterce API
A16 64GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.56/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.05/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.05/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
B200 180GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$6.69/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
B200 180GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $6.69/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$2.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $2.29/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
H100 PCIe 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$3.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
H100 PCIe 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $3.29/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda LabsSesterce	$3.99/hr 8x GPU	$2.75/hr★ Best	↑+$1.24(+45.1%)	Lambda Labs API Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $3.99/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 9/28/2026 Sesterce $2.75/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$1.24(+45.1%) Lambda Labs API Sesterce API
H200 141GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$4.40/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $4.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.04/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.04/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 9/27/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 4000 Ada 20GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.87/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX 4000 Ada 20GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.87/hour Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.44/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.44/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 9/28/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API

Features Comparison

Lambda Labs

Sesterce

Vertically Integrated AI Factories
Each site is operated as a single system, owning the hand-off between energy, facility, silicon, network fabric, and orchestration
Sovereign European Infrastructure
French sites offering data residency, controlled energy origin, and supply-chain control, drawing on 2 GW of hydro, nuclear, and solar capacity secured under long-term PPAs
SoftBank Joint Venture at Bosquel
A joint venture with SoftBank Group to develop a 1 GW AI data center campus at Bosquel in Hauts-de-France
Sesterce OS Control Plane
Single console and API to provision clusters, orchestrate training, serve inference, and meter usage across every Sesterce site, Slurm and Kubernetes native
High-Density Liquid Cooling
Purpose-built Tier III+ facilities with direct-to-chip liquid cooling at up to 150 kW per rack, rated at PUE 1.12 under full AI load
InfiniBand Fabric
Non-blocking NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand at 800 Gb/s with rail-optimized topology and native RDMA

Pros & Cons

Lambda Labs

Advantages

Early access to latest NVIDIA GPUs (H100, H200, Blackwell)
Specialized for AI workloads
One-click Jupyter access
Pre-installed popular ML frameworks

Considerations

Primarily focused on AI and ML workloads
Limited global data center presence compared to major cloud providers
Newer player in the cloud GPU market

Sesterce

Advantages

Broad on-demand catalog running from Blackwell B300 and H200 down to previous-generation NVIDIA cards, plus Intel Gaudi 2
On-demand, spot, and reserved billing modes on the same clusters
VM and bare-metal deployment with single- and multi-GPU (up to 8x) configurations
European data residency across French sites, with hydro, nuclear, and solar energy under long-term PPAs

Considerations

Infrastructure concentrated in France, with no North American or Asia-Pacific regions
Rack-scale GB300 NVL72 and B200 capacity is contracted as reserved AI factory capacity rather than sold from the self-serve catalog
The newest and largest accelerators (B300, H200, Gaudi 2) are only sold as 8-GPU nodes, with no smaller self-serve size

Compute Services

Lambda Labs

Sesterce

Compute

On-demand VMs and bare-metal servers launched with no commitment

Clusters

Dedicated multi-node GPU clusters ranging from around 100 to 15,000 GPUs

AI Inference

Managed inference instances for serving models alongside GPU compute

Pricing Options

Lambda Labs

Sesterce

On-Demand

Pay-per-second usage with no commitment on VMs and bare-metal servers

Spot

Discounted interruptible capacity, filterable as a spot offer in the compute catalog

Reserved Capacity

Committed multi-megawatt cluster capacity contracted for frontier-scale workloads

Credit-based Billing

Pre-funded account balance system for streamlined resource management

Getting Started

Lambda Labs

Get Started

Sesterce

Get Started

1
Create Account
Sign up for Sesterce Cloud platform access
2
Add Credits
Fund your account with credits for pay-as-you-go billing
3
Launch Instance
Choose your GPU type and configuration, launch in just a few clicks or via the CLI and API

Support & Global Availability

Lambda Labs

Sesterce

Global Regions

French footprint: AI factory sites at Bosquel (Hauts-de-France) and Valence, plus a Paris cloud region hosted at Equinix; several on-demand GPU types are offered in more than one region

Support

Documentation and API reference, self-service console with help and requests, REST API and CLI, contact sales for reserved capacity