# Crusoe Cloud vs Lambda Cloud (slim)

> Crusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) to Lambda Cloud's 50 (D) for gpu compute. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Crusoe Cloud scores 63.4 (B) on agent readiness against Lambda Cloud's 50 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lambda Cloud leads on agent ergonomics. Both do gpu compute.

- Crusoe Cloud: B 63.4, rank #396 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crusoe-cloud.min.md
- Lambda Cloud: D 50, rank #781 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lambda.min.md
- Crusoe Cloud, good for Teams that want whole GPU machines or clusters with managed Kubernetes or Slurm in the US, Iceland or Norway, under an SLA, and are content to manage lifecycles themselves. Ahead on Reliability, 66 against 50; Schema & documentation, 79 against 69; Security & auth, 74 against 60; Payments & pricing, 30 against 20; Maintenance & community, 76 against 5; Transparency & trust, 77 against 58. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Lambda Cloud, good for Agents or pipelines that need a whole GPU machine with SSH for hours, such as training or batch jobs, and will manage the lifecycle themselves. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 63 against 45.

| Category | Crusoe Cloud | Lambda Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 69 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 45 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 74 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 5 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Crusoe Cloud | Lambda Cloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Crusoe | Lambda |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.cloud.crusoe.ai/v1` | `https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Price for gpu compute | not published | $9.86 per GPU-hour |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Crusoe Cloud Platform Terms of Service. The Go client and the MCP server package are MIT. The CLI ships as binaries, and no licence file was found in the Terraform provider repository | none |
| Tools exposed | 41 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | none |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-08-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-01-01 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |
| Popularity | 7 npm/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |