# 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Koyeb: grade D, 47/100, rank #389 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koyeb.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/koyeb.json
- Lambda Cloud: grade D, 50.1/100, rank #363 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lambda.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lambda.json

## Which one, for what

Pick Koyeb for reliability (+10), maintenance & community (+18), transparency & trust (+9).

Pick Lambda Cloud for schema & documentation (+28), agent ergonomics (+7), security & auth (+10).

## Score by category

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

## Facts side by side

| 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) |

## Verdicts

**Koyeb.** 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.

**Lambda Cloud.** 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.

## Before you call either

### Koyeb

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

### Lambda Cloud

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

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