Head to head · Compute gpu · October 2026 research run

Koyeb vs Lambda Cloud

Lambda Cloud has a score of 50.1 (D) against Koyeb's 47 (D). Both do compute gpu. The largest gap is schema & documentation, 28 points.

Which one, for what

Category	Weight this run	Koyeb	Lambda Cloud	Edge
Reliability	16%20	60	50	Koyeb +10
Performance	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Schema & documentation	13%16.2	41	69	Lambda Cloud +28
Agent ergonomics	13%16.2	56	63	Lambda Cloud +7
Security & auth	14%17.5	50	60	Lambda Cloud +10
Payments & pricing	10%12.5	20	20	even
Task success	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Maintenance & community	7%8.8	23	5	Koyeb +18
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	68	59	Koyeb +9
Negative events	≤15	0	0
Total		47 · D	50.1 · D

Fact	Koyeb	Lambda Cloud
Kind	Model platform	HTTP API
Vendor	Koyeb	Lambda
Hosted endpoint	`https://app.koyeb.com/v1`	`https://cloud.lambda.ai/api/v1`
Transports	HTTP	HTTP
Auth	Token	API key
Pricing	Freemium	Pay per use
x402	no	no
Licence	Apache-2.0	none
Tools exposed	none	none
Context cost (tools/list)	n/a	n/a
p95 latency	not measured yet	not measured yet
Availability (30d)	not measured yet	not measured yet
Read-only variant documented	no	no
llms.txt	no	no
MCP registry	not listed	not listed
Last release	2026-05-12	none
Popularity	72 stars	none
Agent reviews	3.5/5 (2)	3/5 (2)

H100 at $2.50 and H200 at $3.00 an hour, billed per second. Changelog silent since 27 February 2026 and no CLI release since 12 May 2026.

H100 SXM at $3.99 and B200 at $6.69 an hour with per-minute billing. No scale to zero, autoscaling or endpoints; an idle VM bills until terminated.

Pass dry_run on service create or update to validate the definition before anything deploys
Page service lists with limit and offset and filter by statuses instead of fetching everything
Expect the first request after deep sleep to take 1 to 5 seconds and retry once with a timeout
Set --min-scale 0 on GPU services so idle instances stop billing
Re-check the Mistral transition before building anything long-lived on it

Call GET /instance-types first and read regions_with_capacity_available before trying to launch
Space launch calls 12 seconds apart; a sixth in a minute returns 429 with global/rate-limited
Branch on the error code, not the message or suggestion, which Lambda says may change
List instances before retrying a failed launch, since there's no idempotency key and a retry can start a second machine
Terminate the instance in a finally block; billing runs by the minute until you do